scholarly journals Locating Chronic Violence: Billy Kahora’s “How to Eat a Forest”

2018 ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Ashleigh Harris ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Violence

scholarly journals National Resilience to Protracted Violence in Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Korostelina
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Effective Practices ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
National Community ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Chronic Violence

This paper concentrates on the production of power of the Ukrainian nation, that not only deals with continuous violence within the nation, but also develops national strength to address this violence. This paper aims to explore how the Ukrainian nation develops resilience to protracted violence as a form of transformative power and what factors contribute or impede this process. The paper defines resilience as a form of power that enhances the capacity of a national community to heal from trauma, effectively resists perpetrators of violence, and positively transform intergroup relations to remove communities from contexts of chronic violence and war. Based on semi-structured interviews with twenty-six respondents and a phenomenological analysis of data, this paper shows that effective practices of resilience developed by the national community of Ukraine, including volunteerism, a critical approach to history, and dialogue, not only aid Ukrainians in the adaptation to the chronic violence but also in the transformation of the nature and the impact of the violence on the national community. At the same time, these practices not only utilize external and internal resources but shape the societal capacities and the international interventions. Finally, these practices also alter visions of the society and dynamics of relations between power agents.

Some Psychological Implications of Black Struggle

Contention ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Colin Wayne Leach ◽  
Cátia P. Teixiera
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
The Us ◽  
Racial Hegemony ◽  
Chronic Violence ◽  
Freedom Struggles

Yet another long, hot summer in 2020 brought to the broader consciousness—in the US and well beyond—what Black folks have known for centuries about the ways in which racial hegemony relies on the acute violence of a police knee on a prone neck and the chronic violence of prisons, prefects, and (public housing) projects (for discussions, see Bulhan 1985; Omi and Winant 2014; Sidanius and Pratto 1999). In their commentary, AK Thompson makes too many important points for us to address in this brief commentary. Thus, as research psychologists with a transdisciplinary social-behavioral approach to protest, resistance, and societal change, we focus on what we see as Thompson’s most psychologically oriented theses: II, III, V, and VI. In sum, we see Thompson as arguing that social movements necessarily include a (more or less latent) threat of violence (II) and that this violence is noticed and suppressed because it challenges (III) the logic (economic, political, and cultural), the ethics, and the formalization (legal, political, and institutional) of racial hegemony (V). In addition, we take Thompson to argue that Black freedom struggles are, and have always been, flexible in means and aims (VI), adjusting strategically to the multifaceted dynamics of oppression and resistance.

The effects of chronic violence on preschool children living in South African townships

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 795-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Magwaza ◽  
B.J. Killian ◽  
I. Petersen ◽  
Y. Pillay
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
South African ◽  
Chronic Violence

Drawing the line: Bonds and bounds of civility in a Christian basti of Karachi

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 382-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Gayer
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Moral Career ◽  
Chronic Violence ◽  
The City

What do situations of chronic violence and resulting polarizations do to civility, and especially to its more horizontal forms? Using an account of everyday pluralism in an impoverished Christian neighbourhood of Karachi, this article addresses this question by examining how marginalized groups of that embattled city have been cobbling together forms of coexistence in the midst of ethnic and sectarian conflicts. Focusing in particular on the moral career of a local strongman, the practical and ethical dilemmas encountered by populations surviving at the margins of the city are considered, as they try to engage with others while struggling with the often violent economy of scarcity that structures their experience and vulnerability. In doing so, this article makes a case for a conceptualization of civility as a matter of building bonds as much as setting certain limits, in relation to identity and violence in particular. Civility, here, does not amount either to the preservation of peaceful coexistence or to the orderly reproduction of society. It thrives on various forms of connections and multiplicities, contesting hegemonic discourses on difference; instead of being external to violence, it operates within a world of violent possibilities, to which it aims to put some bounds.

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