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Free Download Violence and Resistance, Art and Politics in Colombia by Stephen Zepke, Nicolás Alvarado Castillo
English | April 21, 2023 | ISBN: 3031103254 | 311 pages | MOBI | 8.57 Mb
This book explores the historical and contemporary connections between art and politics in Colombia. These relations are unique because of the ways in which they are saturated by violence, as the country has passed through conquest, struggles for Independence, fighting between political factions, civil war, paramilitaries, narco-traffickers and state violence. This seemingly unending stream of violence gives art in Colombia one of its main themes. The lavishly illustrated essays, written by Colombian authors, examine Colombian visual arts, music, theatre, literature, cinema, indigenous arts, popular culture, militant publications and recent protest movements, analysing them with tools drawn from contemporary philosophy and theory. Approaches include decolonisation theory, cosmopolitics, anthropology after the ontological turn, Colombian philosophy, feminism, and French theory. The essays all offer powerful understandings of how art has not only been complicit in perpetuating political violence in Colombia, but also how it has been a vital form of analysis and resistance.

Free Download Erhabor Ighodaro, "Curriculum Violence "
English | ISBN: 1617286834 | 2010 | 232 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book examines the historical context of African Americans’ educational experiences, and it provides information that helps to assess the dominant discourse on education, which emphasises White middle-class cultural values and standardisation of students’ outcomes. Curriculum violence is defined as the deliberate manipulation of academic programming in a manner that ignores or compromises the intellectual and psychological well being of learners. Related to this are the issues of assessment and the current focus on high-stakes standardised testing in schools, where most teachers are forced to teach for the test.

Free Download Preventing Mass Violence: A Whole Community Approach by Mark S. Warnick
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: 1119737419 | 448 pages | MOBI | 1.49 Mb
Build your community’s ability to be proactive toward preventing mass violence

Free Download Hakeem Bello, "The Interpreters: Ritual, Violence, and Social Regeneration in the Writing of Wole Soyinka"
English | ISBN: 9789181957 | 2014 | 178 pages | PDF | 20 MB
A concern for social regeneration stands as the factor that animates Soyinka’s life-long involvement in social and political activism, leading to hid incarceration for two years during the civil war, and his having to flee into exile during the period of Sani Abacha’s dictatorship. Soyinka expresses this same concern for social regeneration in his writings, using difference metaphors. The focus of this work lies in the exploration of the articulations of social regeneration in the works of Wole Soyinka. The first past focuses on the dramatic works, and the argument of the author is that the metaphor adopted by Africa’s foremost playwright in articulating his vision of social regeneration is that of ritual. Attention shifts in part two to Soyinka’s two novels; and here, Bello goes to the roots of Yoruba metaphysics to fetch a metaphor which describes a creature with contradictory personality; which at once is committed to the regeneration of the social order while at the same time retaining a vindictive, vengeful nature.

Free Download Deadly Musings: Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction by Michael Kowalewski
English | July 26, 1993 | ISBN: 0691069735 | True EPUB/PDF | 316 pages | 0.4/1.9 MB
"Violent scenes in American fiction are not only brutal, bleak, and gratuitous," writes Michael Kowalewski. "They are also, by turns, comic, witty, poignant, and sometimes, strangely enough, even terrifyingly beautiful." In this fascinating tour of American fiction, Kowalewski examines incidents ranging from scalpings and torture in The Deerslayer to fish feeding off human viscera in To Have and Have Not, to show how highly charged descriptive passages bear on major issues concerning a writer’s craft. Instead of focusing on violence as a socio-cultural phenomenon, he explores how writers including Cooper, Poe, Crane, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright, Flannery O’Connor, and Pynchon draw on violence in the realistic imagining of their works and how their respective styles sustain or counteract this imagining.

Free Download Insurgent Cultures: World Literatures and Violence from the Global South
by Pavan Kumar Malreddy
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009443836 | 254 Pages | True PDF | 3.6 MB

Free Download Scott Nethersole, "Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence"
English | ISBN: 0300233515 | 2018 | 320 pages | PDF | 43 MB
This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected to the sight of violence, whether in carefully staged rituals of execution or images of the suffering inflicted on Christ. There was nothing new in this culture of pain, unlike the aesthetic of violence that developed towards the end of the 15th century. It emerged in the work of artists such as Piero di Cosimo, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, and the young Michelangelo. Inspired by the art of antiquity, they painted, engraved, and sculpted images of deadly battles, ultimately normalizing representations of brutal violence. Drawing on work in social and literary history, as well as art history, Scott Nethersole sheds light on the relationship between these Renaissance images, violence, and ideas of artistic invention and authorship.

Free Download Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, "Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500 "
English | ISBN: 0367565706 | 2021 | 238 pages | EPUB | 776 KB
This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in medieval times.

Free Download Street Harassment as Everyday Violence
by Melinda A. Mills
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1666912379 | 239 Pages | True PDF | 1.55 MB

Free Download Susanna Trnka, "State of Suffering: Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji"
English | ISBN: 0801446406 | 2008 | 224 pages | PDF | 29 MB
How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering, Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians’ lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji.