Violence can be physical and psychological. It can characterize personal actions, forms of group activity, and abiding social and political policy. This book includes all of these aspects within its focus on institutional forms of violence. Institution is also a broad category, ranging from formal arrangements such as the military, the criminal code, the death penalty and prison system, to more amorphous but systemic situations indicated by parenting, poverty, sexism, work, and racism. Violence is as complex as the human beings who resort to it; its institutional forms pervade our relational lives. We are all participants in it as victims and perpetrators. The chapters in this book were written in the hope that violence can be explicated, even if not fully understood, and that such clarification can help us in devising less violent forms of living, even if it does not lead to its total abolition. The studies bring new aspects of violence to light and offer a number of suggestions for its remedy.
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"this book serves as a useful guide for ethicists who tackle the problem of systemic violence" - in: Philosophy in Review, Vol. 20, No. 4-6
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DEANE CURTIN is Professor of Philosophy and Sponberg Chair of Ethics at Gustavus Adolphus College, where he directs the Community Development in India program, a national program for college students based in Madras. He has lived in Japan and India, recently returning from a semester in India spent studying the effects of the GATT agreement on indigenous peoples. In addition to coediting this volume, his books include (with Lisa Heldke) Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food (1992), and the forthcoming Chinnagounder's Challenge: The Question of Ecological Citizenship.
ROBERT LITKE teaches philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University. He specializes in issues of power, violence, and peace. He has published and delivered lectures on these themes in Canada, Great Britain, Israel, and the United States. He is coeditor of this volume.
Joseph C. KUNKEL: Editorial Foreword. Deane CURTIN and Robert LITKE: Preface. Acknowledgements.
SECTION I CULTURAL FORMS OF VIOLENCE. Introduction
ONE Steven LEE: Is Poverty Violence?
TWO William C. GAY: Linguistic Violence
THREE Natalie DANDEKAR: Compromised Childhoods and Social Violence
FOUR Stephen NATHANSON: The Death Penalty as a Peace Issue
FIVE Mar PETER-RAOUL and Sherrie APPLE: Mothers in Prison: Institutional Violence, Human Values, and Healing.
SIX Robert SESSIONS: Work and Peacemaking.
SECTION II INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE. Introduction
SEVEN Robert LITKE: Fundamentalism, Oppression, and Violence
EIGHT Jerald RICHARDS: Ideological Intolerance: Causes, Consequences, and Alternatives
NINE Judith L. PRESLER: Genocide and Moral Philosophy
TEN Eddy SOUFFRANT: International Intervention: Shell in Nigeria
SECTION III FEMINISM AND INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE. Introduction
ELEVEN Sally J. SCHOLZ: The Challenge of Systemic Oppression: The Dangerous Divorce of Civil and Domestic Spheres
TWELVE James P. STERBA: Feminist Justice and Sexual Harassment
THIRTEEN Amy IHLAN: Feminism and Firearms
SECTION IV RACISM AND SYSTEMIC PREJUDICE. Introduction
FOURTEEN Laura DUHAN KAPLAN: Devaluing Others to Enhance Our Self-Esteem: A Moral Phenomenology of Racism
FIFTEEN Paul C. TAYLOR: Context and Color-Confrontation: Cress Theory and the Necessity of Racism
SIXTEEN Paula J. SMITHKA: The Limits of Tolerance
SEVENTEEN Larry UDELL: Racism and Prejudice
EIGHTEEN Robert GINSBERG: Institutional Violence as Systemic Evil
SECTION V ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE. Introduction
NINETEEN Michael Allen FOX: Ecofeminism and the Dismantling of Institutional Violence
TWENTY Judith A. BOSS: Treading on Harrowed Ground: The Violence of Agriculture
SECTION VI VIOLENCE AND THE MILITARY. Introduction
TWENTY-ONE John KULTGEN: Managing Violence under Military Professionalization
TWENTY-TWO Gail M. PRESBEY: The Armed Forces Caught in a Web: Both Victims and Perpetrators of Violence
TWENTY-THREE David E. JOHNSON: Ethical Education in the Military: Controlling the Institution of Violence
SECTION VII THINKING NONVIOLENTLY. Introduction
TWENTY-FOUR Joseph C. KUNKEL: Power, Public Authority, and Nonviolence
TWENTY-FIVE Ron HIRSCHBEIN: A World Without Enemies (Bush's Brush with Morality)
TWENTY-SIX Andrew NORMAN: Epistemological Violence
TWENTY-SEVEN Glen T. MARTIN: A Buddhist Response to Institutional Violence
Reference Bibliography
About the Authors
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