Stereotypes and violence / edited by Frank Jacob.

Contributor(s):

Jacob, Frank [editor.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9783958081635
3958081630

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stereotypes and violence.DDC classification:

303.385 23

LOC classification:

HM1096 .S747 2017

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

The wandering worker. Violence and casual labor in the modern anglophone world / Oliver Betts -- Racism and violence in Germany since 1980 / Barbara Manthe -- Modern German anxieties. Generalized Muslimness as new nationalist politics in the west / Benjamin Nickl -- "All men [of color] are rapists" or the grammar of violence. Stereotypes, rape myths and doing gender and race / Sylvia Sadzinski -- Gender-based violence in Serbia. Media, stereotypes, and celebrities / Bojan Perovic -- Gendered epistemology and harassment. The case of Dr. Olivieri / Andrew Fuyarchuk -- The violence of knowledge in practices toward Roma in the Czech Republic. The historical echo of surveillance during socialism / Victoria Shmidt -- Violent fantasies, the persisting stereotypes of European Roma / Biba Hadziavdic, Hilde Hoffmann.

Summary: Stereotypes are dangerous, especially when they are used by demagogues. Slogans, which remind the historian of "darker times" in human history, however, reappear again in a growing number. As companions of the rise of right wing forces in Europe they make up ground in more and more regions and gain momentum in the political debate. It consequently seems to be more than important to focus on and closer analyze the interrelationship between stereotypes and violence in modern societies. The fourth volume of "Global Humanities" is trying to achieve such a broader analysis and will provide reading in the fields of history, political science, gender and media studies. The authors are going to show and emphasize in which ways the two above named factors are interacting with each other and influencing the popular opinion in modern nation states. Topics that will be covered include Anti-Italian riots in Zurich at the end of the 19th century, a discussion of the interrelationship of racism in violence in Germany since the 1980s, and an analysis of gender based violence in Serbia. In addition, the persistence of stereotypes in entertainment will be closely studied by taking a look on Sinti and Roma depictions in current European films.

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Stereotypes are dangerous, especially when they are used by demagogues. Slogans, which remind the historian of "darker times" in human history, however, reappear again in a growing number. As companions of the rise of right wing forces in Europe they make up ground in more and more regions and gain momentum in the political debate. It consequently seems to be more than important to focus on and closer analyze the interrelationship between stereotypes and violence in modern societies. The fourth volume of "Global Humanities" is trying to achieve such a broader analysis and will provide reading in the fields of history, political science, gender and media studies. The authors are going to show and emphasize in which ways the two above named factors are interacting with each other and influencing the popular opinion in modern nation states. Topics that will be covered include Anti-Italian riots in Zurich at the end of the 19th century, a discussion of the interrelationship of racism in violence in Germany since the 1980s, and an analysis of gender based violence in Serbia. In addition, the persistence of stereotypes in entertainment will be closely studied by taking a look on Sinti and Roma depictions in current European films.

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