Violence

HANNAH ARENDT Political TheoristBEGOÑA ARETXAGA Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of TexasZYGMUNT BAUMAN Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of LeedsRHONDA COPELON Vice President, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York CityMARTHA CRENSHAW John E. Andrus Professor of Government, Wesleyan UniversityALEXANDER LABAN HINTON Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Rutgers UniversityCYNTHIA MAHMOOD Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre DameBARRINGTON MOORE Previously Lecturer in Sociology and Senior Research Fellow, Russian Research CenterCAROLYN NORDSTROM Associate Professor of Anthropology and Fellow, Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre DameJULIE PETEET Chair and Associate Professor of Antropology, University of LouisvilleMICHAEL TAUSSIG Professor of Anthropology, Columbia UniversityCHARLES TILLY Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia UniversityMAX WEBER (Deceased) Author and Leading Founder of Modern Sociology

• Acknowledgements Preface; R.Jackall & A.J.Vidich Notes on the Contributors PART I: VIOLENCE AND THE STATE Politics as a Vocation; M.Weber Reflections on Violence; H.Arendt War-Making and State-Making as Organized Crime; C.Tilly The Impact and Function of Terror; B.Moore Jr, The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust; Z.Bauman PART II: POLITICAL VIOLENCE The Causes of Terrorism; M.Crenshaw Playing the Game of Love: Passion and Martyrdom Among Khalistani Sikhs; C.Mahmood A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide; A.L.Hinton Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence; B.Aretxaga Surfacing Gender: Reconceptualizing Crimes Against Women in Time of War; R.Copelon PART III: THE NORMALIZATION OF VIOLENCE Culture of Terror-Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture; M.Taussig Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence; J.Peteet Terror Warfare and the Medicine of Peace; C.Nordstrom PART IV: Conclusion; C.Besteman Index