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Como o Estado violenta as meninas e mulheres
Apenas 42 hospitais realizam procedimento legal no Brasil, enquanto há 500 mil estupros por ano. Grupos religiosos propõem punitivismo — mas solucionar violência estruturante exigirá ensino de sexualidade e igualdade de gênero nas escolas. O caso de uma menina de … Continue reading
Violência contra as mulheres: o passado ressoa no presente
Até aparentes avanços têm origens machistas: garantia ao aborto em caso de estupro, nos anos 40, era para proteger moral da família. O viés machista da Justiça precisa ser enfrentado. Um manifesto pelo direito à vida das mulheres. Neste 25 … Continue reading
Social Movements and Political Violence
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the ways in which political violence and social movements connect, as well as of the ways in which these connections are studied in academia. It delineates and expands on three … Continue reading
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Conceptualising Violence as a Problem of Epistemology
This chapter presents the idea that the underlying cause of violence is a specific type of epistemology which the author terms ‘violent epistemology’. The chapter presents a detailed a conceptual framework for understanding the specific cognitive mechanisms comprising violent epistemology, … Continue reading
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Violence in Childhood leads to accelerated aging
Children who suffer abuse are more likely to age faster, while those who endure food insecurity or neglect may develop more slowly, according to new research led by the University of Washington. Violence, psychological or emotional abuse, deprivation and neglect … Continue reading
Why Income Inequality Increases Maternal Infanticide
Natural selection has provided mothers with an early warning system, one that can alert them to danger before others are even aware of the risk. After all, humans have the ability to make conscious choices and design political systems that … Continue reading
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Education Under Fire
UNICEF – From Syria to Sudan, from Libya to Yemen, as conflict and political violence surge across the Middle East, schools — and the children and teachers that use them — are finding themselves in the line of fire. A … Continue reading
Zygmunt Bauman’s Warning From History
But we cannot simply memorialize without asking difficult and searching questions about the contemporary moment. Are there, for instance, aspects of contemporary global society that make it possible to think and act in ways that render specific populations disposable? Such … Continue reading
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging … Continue reading
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
Read All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely … Continue reading
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