VIOLENCE TODAY: Actually existing barbarism
edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

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What is in the 2009 Volume:

Preface - Colin Leys and Leo Panitch

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 Gilmore history of US violence

Joe Sim, Steve Tombs - State talk, state silence: work and Steve Tombs ‘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

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