The paradox of political violence

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Muhannad Ayyash
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Frantz Fanon

This article explores the paradoxical relationship between politics and violence in the concept of political violence. By examining the works of prominent theorists, such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon, the article highlights both the difficulty of separating politics and violence, and the improbability of formulating a harmonious relationship between them. Engaging with some of Michel Foucault’s work on power and violence, the article begins to formulate a theoretical approach that conceptualizes political violence in its inherently paradoxical condition.

The Study of Political Unrest and Violence: The Middle East

1978 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Farhad Kazemi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Unrest ◽  
The Sixties

The late Hannah Arendt once observed that “violence itself is incapable of speech, and not merely that speech is helpless when confronted with violence. Because of this speech-lessness political theory has little to say about the phenomenon of violence and must leave its discussion to the technicians;” (Arendt, 1963, p.9). This may have been true at the time of Arendt’s writing. The situation, however, dramatically changed when the violence of the sixties began in earnest. The academic market was soon lost in a maze of articles, books, and analyses of political violence from the perspective of not only political theory but practically every discipline in the social sciences and humanities. These new works supplemented the traditional and earlier studies of violence by the Marxist school and others. Thus by the turn of the decade, the student of political violence was faced with the difficult task of trying to evaluate and sift his way through an ever-expanding plethora of concepts, theories, definitions, explanations, and models of political violence which abounded in the field.

scholarly journals What makes violence martial? Adopt A Sniper and normative imaginaries of violence in the contemporary United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 096701062199722
Author(s):  
Katharine M Millar
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Global War On Terror ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Military Support ◽  
Global War ◽  
Contemporary United States

What makes violence martial? Contemporary militarism scholarship, owing to an analytical overdetermination of the role of military institutions, frequently conflates martiality with violence writ large. Drawing upon the illustrative case of Adopt A Sniper, a US military support charity founded by police officers operating during the global war on terror and intended to help supporters ‘directly contribute to the killing of the enemy’, this article interrogates the intuitive ‘line’ between martial and other, particularly colonial, forms of violence. To do so, I develop the concept of ‘normative imaginaries of violence’ – articulations of intersubjective beliefs; political community; spatial geographies; gendered, sexualized, racialized and classed power relations; and logics of legitimation. Through this lens, and informed by the work of Frantz Fanon, the article demonstrates that though coloniality and martiality are deeply intertwined, they are neither reducible to nor epiphenomenal of each other. Through a juxtaposition of the titular sniper with two additional figures invoked by Adopt A Sniper – the militiaman and the vigilante – I outline a novel, genealogical method that enables us to trace the entangled histories of contemporary violences and identify the implicit politics of ordering at work in existing, often fragmented, analyses of political violence.

scholarly journals Constitución y exclusión. Performatividad y espacio público en Hannah Arendt y Frantz Fanon

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (241) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Jerade
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Frantz Fanon

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar, a partir de una cierta noción de performatividad, que el lenguaje es constitutivo del espacio público, inclusive en su materialidad, pero no como un espacio homogéneo sino como uno que se modela a partir de exclusiones y resistencias que también son efectos del propio lenguaje. Me centraré, para ello, en cómo Hannah Arendt plantea la constitución del espacio público a partir del discurso en </span><span>La condición humana</span><span>, para después confrontarla con algunos textos de Frantz Fanon en los cuales plantea que el espacio público no es homogéneo sino uno compartimentado que genera performativamente exclusiones. </span></p></div></div></div>

Differential polarization imaging of sickled cells

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 62-63
Author(s):  
Marcos F. Maestre
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Polarization Microscopy ◽  
Spectroscopic Techniques ◽  
Polarization Imaging ◽  
Circularly Polarized Light ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Microscopic Scale ◽  
Chiral Structures

Recently we have developed a form of polarization microscopy that forms images using optical properties that have previously been limited to macroscopic samples. This has given us a new window into the distribution of structure on a microscopic scale. We have coined the name differential polarization microscopy to identify the images obtained that are due to certain polarization dependent effects. Differential polarization microscopy has its origins in various spectroscopic techniques that have been used to study longer range structures in solution as well as solids. The differential scattering of circularly polarized light has been shown to be dependent on the long range chiral order, both theoretically and experimentally. The same theoretical approach was used to show that images due to differential scattering of circularly polarized light will give images dependent on chiral structures. With large helices (greater than the wavelength of light) the pitch and radius of the helix could be measured directly from these images.

Sri Lanka: Political violence and ethnic conflict.

1998 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 771-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Rogers ◽  
Jonathan Spencer ◽  
Jayadeva Uyangoda
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Ethnic Conflict
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