Interventions : Activists and Academics Respond to Violence

by Edited by Elizabeth A. Castelli and Janet R. Jakobsen

• ISBN13: 9781403965813
• ISBN10: 1403965811
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-11-27
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violencebrings together top scholars to discuss the significance of violence from a global perspective and the intersections between the global structures of violence and more localized and intimate forms of violence. The contributors toInterventionsexamine many hard questions including: Are there situations in which violence should be politically supported? Are non-violent or anti-war movements in the US able to respond effectively to violence? Do we need to rethink our understanding of both "religion" and "secularism" in light of the current world situation? Have new paradigms been developed in response to violence? The essays in this collection offer incisive analysis of particular situations and creative alternatives to the omnipresence of violence.

Author Biography

Elizabeth A. Castelli is Associate Professor of Religion at Barnard College at Columbia University. She has held several other teaching and research positions, most recently serving as the Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University during its inaugural year (2003-2004). She is a specialist in the academic study of religion, author most recently of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making.

Janet R. Jakobsen is the Director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard College at Columbia University. She is the author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics and co-author, with Ann Pellegrini, of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. She is engaged in research on the idea of secularism in modern and postmodern contexts, especially as it relates to public policy debates over the role of religion in social life and politics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Feminists Responding to Violence: Theories, Vocabularies, and Strategies	1	(12)
Elizabeth A. Castelli
PART I: TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT
1. Feminism in the Time of Violence	13	(10)
Karen Beckman
2. The Wrong Victims: Terrorism, Trauma, and Symbolic Violence	23	(6)
Sally Bachner
3. Definitions and Injuries of Violence	29	(8)
Meredeth Turshen
4. Filling the Sight by Force: A Meditation on the Violence of the Vernacular	37	(4)
Laura Wexler
5. Rethinking Responses to Violence, Rethinking the Safety of "Home"	41	(6)
Andrea Smith
6. Violence of Protection	47	(6)
Minoo Moallem
7. Is Secularism Less Violent than Religion?	53	(18)
Janet R. Jakobsen
PART II: VIOLENCE AND THE U.S. POLITICAL REGIME
8. Biblical Promise and Threat in U.S. Imperialist Rhetoric, Before and After 9/11	71	(18)
Erin Runions
9. The Best Defense? The Problem with Bush's "Preemptive" War Strategy	89	(14)
Neta C. Crawford
10. The Erosion of Democracy in Advancing the Bush Administration's Iraq Agenda: Government Lies and Misinformation and Media Complicity	103	(16)
Jody Williams
PART III: CONTEXTS AND LOCATIONS OF VIOLENCE
11. Naming Enmity: The Case of Israel/Palestine	119	(12)
Gil Anidjar
12. Toward a Cherokee Theory of Violence	131	(2)
Laura E. Donaldson
13. Dangerous Crossings: Violence at the Borders	133	(10)
Lois Ann Lorentzen
14. Domestic Terror	143	(6)
Catherine Lutz and Jon Elliston
15. Testifying to Violence: Gujarat as a State of Exception	149	(12)
Anupama Rao
16. Challenging What We Mean by Conflict Prevention: The Experience of East Timor	161	(14)
Gwi-Yeop Son
PART IV: ANTIVIOLENCE ETHICS AND STRATEGIES: COALITIONS THEATRES INTERDEPENDENCIES
17. Sisterhood after Terrorism: Filipino Ecumenical Women and the U.S. Wars	175	(12)
Kathryn Poethig
18. The Female Body as Site of Attack: Will the "Real" Muslim Woman's Body Please Reveal Itself?	187	(10)
Fawzia Afzal-Kahn
19. Responses to Violence: Healing vs. Punishment	197	(6)
Helena Cobban
20. Our Enemies, Ourselves: Why Antiviolence Movements Must Replace the Dualism of "Us and Them" with an Ethic of Interdependence	203	(14)
Kay Whitlock
Recommended Bibliography	217	(14)
Contributors	231	(6)
Index	237

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