Violence and its Alternatives

Introduction; M.B.Steger & N.S.Lind SECTION 1: VIOLENCE: DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS Excerpt from On Violence ; H.Arendt On Violence; R.P.Wolff The Idea of Violence; C.A.J.Coady Cultural Violence; J.Galtung Violence and the Perspective of Morality; R.L.Holmes SECTION 2: VIOLENCE AND LAW Critique of Violence; W.Benjamin Excerpt from Discipline and Punish ; M.Foucault Excerpt from Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority ; J.Derrida The Force of Law: Metaphysical or Political; N.Fraser Is Violent Speech a Right?; C.R.Sunstein SECTION 3: VIOLENCE AND GENDER, GENDER AND SEXUALITY Masculinity, Violence, and Domination; N.C.M.Hartsock Violence, Gender, and Social Change; C.Alder Violence in Lesbian and Gay Relationships; C.M.Renzetti Pornography and Grief; A.Dworkin Andrea Dworkin's Reconstruction of Pornography as a Discriminatory Social Practice; C.Jenefsky The Second Front: The Logic of Sexual Violence in Wars; R.Seifert SECTION 4: VIOLENCE AND RACE Excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth ; F.Fanon Excerpt from The Ballot or the Bullet ; Malcolm X On Violence; D.Nicholson Nihilism in Black America; C.West Violence, Resistance, and the Struggle for Black Empowerment; M.Marable Indigenous Peoples, Racism and the Environment; R.Barsh SECTION 5: VIOLENCE AND NATIONALISM The New Nationalism in Europe; M.Kaldor Pro Patria Mori! Death and the State; Y.Tamir Patriotism and its Futures; A.Appadurai 'Ethnic Cleansing': A Metaphor for our Time?; A.S.Ahmed SECTION 6: VIOLENCE AND CLASS Excerpt from Reflections on Violence ; G.Sorel Liberation from the Affluent Society; H.Marcuse Legality and Illegality; G.Lukacs An Autopsy of Marxist Socialism; M.B.Steger SECTION 7: NONVIOLENCE ALTERNATIVES Excerpts from The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi ; M.K.Gandhi Excerpt from Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience ; M.L.King JR . Beloved Community: A World Without Racism - Bell Hooks Freedom From Fear; A.S.S.Kyi Beyond Just War and Pacifism; G.Sharp Untangling the Web of Violence;