Violence

The escalation in violence over the last few years expressed in xenophobia, racism and nationalism in several European countries is analized in the contributions of the book. Representatives of disciplines of the various social sciences dedicated to understanding violence attempt to determine possible causes and motives for this increase. The European aspect, with its particular economic and sociopolitical problems, is examined using case study results from several countries. In addition, an analysis is presented that investigates the question wheather violence is a problem specific to youth and therefore an issue to be addressed by educationalists. The book seeks to contribute to research in the fields of nationalism and racism by dealing predominantly with anthropological considerations. But it also wishes to address the question of the manifestation, causes and motives of youth violence being discussed in educational science.

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Contents

Bernhard Dieckmann, Christoph Wulf, Michael Wimmer
Violence – Racism, Nationalism, Xenophobia

I. Conceptual-Theoretical Perspectives

Floya Anthias
New Racism and Nationalism
Social, Cultural and Scientific Approaches and Solutions: Rethinking Racist Exclusions and Antiracisms

Christoph Wulf
Violence, Religion and Civilization

Yves Michaud
Violence, Identities and the State

Ulrich Albrecht
The Challenge posed to Theory in the Social Sciences by Ethnosocial Wars in Europe

Edgar Morin
Discours of Sarajevo
The European Intelligentsia between Mission and Demission

Ulrich Herrmann
Discipline and Education
Pedagogic Aspects of the Transformation of External Constraint into Self-Constraint

Hinderk M. Emrich
Selfpsychological Explanatory Models of Aggression

Christiane Buhmann
Hostility and Foreigners in the Light of Lacanian Theory of Aggressiveness

II. Hermeneutic-Historical Approaches

Jagdish Gundara
Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe

Panikos Panayi
Racial Violence in the Twentieth Century

Crispin Jones
Xenophobia and the Educational Construction of Europe

Robert Ferguson
Racism and the Mass Media
Struggling with Normality

Uli Linke
Fantasizing about Violence
Memory, Alterity, and Identity in German Political Culture

Katherine C. Donahue
The Language of Violence
Race, racism, and Culture in France

Roger Hewitt
Adolescense, Racism and Violence in South London

III. Descriptive-Empirical Studies

Ralf Bohnsack
"Episodical Community of Fate" and Youth Violence
A Qualitative Analysis of Hooligan Groups

Meredith Watts, Jürgen Zinnecker
Varieties of Violence-Proneness among Male Youth

Metin Alkan
Racism and Schooling
Experiences of Turkish Students in Secondary Schools in the Netherlands

Anton Trant, Elizabeth McSkeane
Wider Horizons for Young People
A Case Study in Reconciliation in Ireland, North and South

Monika Reinfelder
The Misogynist Violence of Fortress Europe

Diane L. Brook
Racism, Violence and the Liberation Struggle
The Impact of South African Education