Editors: LEO PANITCH and COLIN LEYS

Violence in every possible form dominates current headlines and people's fears.

Understanding it has never been more urgently needed.

This volume offers an insight into contemporary violence that the mainstream media - and even mainstream cinema - shrinks from providing of state violence, on inner cities, on prisons and the violence committed almost everywhere by men against women

It considers:

 sources- imperialism, globalised capitalism  legacies- of habituation, insecurity and hatred,  dynamics- politically-motivated violence, terror; and  conditions- the superabundance of weapons, etc.

Contents: Leo Panitch & Colin Leys: Preface

Henry Bernstein, Colin Leys & Leo Panitch: Reflections on violence today Vivek Chibber: American militarism and the US political establishment: The real lessons of the invasion of Iraq Philip Green: On-screen barbarism: Violence in US visual culture Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Race, Prisons and War: Scenes from the history of US violence Joe Sim & Steve Tombs: State talk, state silence: Work and violence in the UK Lynne Segal: Violence's victims: the gender landscape Barbara Harriss-White: Girls as disposable commodities in India Achin Vanaik: India's paradigmatic communal violence Tania Murray Li: Reflections on Indonesian violence: Two tales and three silences Ulrich Oslender: Colombia: Old and new patterns of violence, accumulation and dispossession Sofiri Joab-Peterside & Anna Zalik: The commodification of violence in the Niger Delta Dennis Rodgers & Steffen Jensen: Revolutionaries, barbarians or war machines? Gangs in Nicaragua and South Africa Michael Brie: Emancipation and the left: The issue of violence Samir Amin: The defence of humanity requires the radicalisation of popular struggles John Berger: Human shield

AVAILABLE- JUST PUBLISHED- OCTOBER 2008 233 x 157 mm 288pp ISSN 0081-0606

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