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The Paths to domination, resistance, and terror
"The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror portrays the trajectory of contemporary conflict from an ethnographic perspective. The authors explore the ways in which domination, resistance, and terror are played out in the lives of people who live under political and military domination, the reality of war, or the horror of torture and political prisons. Organized along a continuum from situations of weakly contested domination through the development of formal resistance to conditions of violence so severe they disrupt the entire social fabric, the essays delineate the way local culture is interwoven with national and international power relations." "The paradox of modern day systems of sociopolitical violence is that they are simultaneously centralized and decentralized, deliberate and chaotic. Political ideologies and (para)military force may be engendered at centralized loci...
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