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The Limits of Consent Sexual Assault and Affirmative Consent
This open access book examines the ways that consent operates in contemporary culture, suggesting it is a useful starting point to respectful...
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Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life
This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an...
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Avoiding the Knarkare
This chapter delves into the most threatening images associated with people who use drugs. The Swedish concept of a knarkare—a person who uses...
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Happy Using Drugs?
This chapter addresses the charged and ethically problematic relationship between positive emotions and drug use. Such feelings are important...
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Is It Ok to Laugh?
This chapter focuses on the drug-use-related expression of laughter. The discussion about research ethics linked to the interviewees’ positive...
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Introduction
This book is based on an ethnological study of Swedish women’s everyday drug use. A queer phenomenological perspective, paying specific attention to...
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Behaving with Children
In many ways, children were perceived by the women as the symbolic counterparts of drugs. This also makes drug-affected bodies the symbolic...
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“Dirge to Slit Bodies”: EndSARS, Police Brutality, and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku’s Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up
Since the post-independent era, Nigerian literary and political activists from Fela Anikupo Kuti’s Zombie to Ken Saro-Wiwa’s “Silence Would Be...
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Beyond Ethnicity: Reflections on the History and Politics of Violence in Uganda
The chapter “Beyond Ethnicity: Reflections on the History and Politics of Violence In Uganda” seeks to explore the postcolonial realities of...
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Towards a Reconstruction of Sacralized Traditions to Avert Gender-Based Violence Prevalent in Girl-Child Marriages Amongst the Akamba
Greek philosopher Heraclitus once asserted that “change is the only constant in life.” It implies that the world is changing, and so are people. The...
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Violence Against Nature in Africa: A Historical Assessment
The history of Africa has been dominated by narratives of violence. Violence has been at the centre of pre-colonial state formation, European...
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Discourses on Political Violence and the Mechanics of Legitimation in Official Commissions of Inquiry in Africa
The chapter provides some clarity in conceptualizing state sponsored violence and draws on various commissions held by governments to investigate...
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On Systemic and Epistemic Violence in Africa
This a broad and thematic/conceptual study which dissects violence in its various manifestations. The chapter delves deep into the phenomenon of...
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Violence in Africa: A General Introduction
A Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa has been desirable for some time, and hence easily justifiable. The idea of a handbook is most appropriate...
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Pre-colonial and Colonial Violence in Zimbabwe: A Literary-cultural Exegesis
Violence has, in history, pervasively attended processes, events, and ideas of making and unmaking modern nation-states, more so in previously...
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Violence in Africa: Reflecting on a Broad Concept
The editors in this introductory chapter clarify the concept of violence. It is never a simple concept and should never be presented as such. In the...
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Technologies of Violence in Africa
This chapter examines how military violence has occurred in Africa since the turn of the twenty-first century. In particular, it discusses the...
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Insurgency in Mozambique: Can SADC’s NATO’s Article 5 Treaty Address Future Insurgences in the Region
Calls for initiating a practical binding peace and security framework in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) remain persistent, similar...
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“Wait, Let’s Talk About It”: A Feminist Assessment of the Response of the Church of the Cross Hayfield (NELCSA) to Gender-Based Violence in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
The chapter examines Gender-Based Violence (GBV) as a new public health pandemic and a sexual reproductive health right concern in the...
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Trauma-Informed Responses to Victims of Crime
Little has been written about trauma-informed criminal justice agency responses to victims of crime. This chapter explains why taking a...