Why do some citizens pursue civic engagement after exposure to violence while others retreat from civic life? Existing theories point toward the trauma of victimization. …
Background: Advancements in online technology, such as social media, for social interaction pose potential harm to youth. Adolescents might be at particular risk for harms …
This dissertation is a history of the roots of local genocide. It tells the story of the surreal familiarity underpinning the dynamics of mass murder …
The dissertation focuses on nonviolent action in global politics and responds to the following puzzle: how can we confront wrongs--such as violence and injustice--powerfully and …
This thesis explores the usage of surveillance as a framework for dramaturgy and production in Yussef El Guindi’s BACK OF THE THROAT, produced by Brown …
Violence is commonly viewed as inherent to the drug trade. Yet, there is dramatic variation in patterns of drug violence across and within countries similarly …
This dissertation examines why and how states create irregular military units. Security is conventionally viewed as the state’s quintessential and exclusive domain. Centralization, bureaucratization, and …
Violence and violent language have long been associated with Classical invective. Archilochus for instance is said to have driven the Lycambids to suicide through the …
This dissertation investigates the relationship between learning how to speak and learning how to die, between the discovery of eloquence and the experience of death. …
With the 'massification' of digital media technologies comes their entanglements not only with our lives but that moment which defines each life, death itself. To …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
This study traces U.S. ritual murder—redefining lynching as a practice that aims to torture, murder, terrorize, and manifest a visual symbolic language. This visual language …
The struggle for economic resources and political power has played a key role in human history. Political institutions and the distribution of economic resources define …
Purpose This analysis aims to better characterize the effects of physical peer violence exposure in adolescents by identifying specific risk factors or moderators of its …
Drawing on fieldwork in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, this dissertation examines how sound mediates (anti)social and translocal relations in the soccer culture of Latin America’s …
This dissertation examines the causes of forced displacement—the phenomenon wherein individuals leave their homes due to violence—within and from cities in the Global South. Non-state …
This dissertation explores the transformative power of music practice for young people living in contexts of violence and social marginalization in Venezuela. These musicians are …