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Changing Contexts, Changing Violence Patterns? The Case of African Diaspora Women
Migration has become a global phenomenon, and diasporic contexts are upsetting tradition and the cultural roles of men and women. Using the United...
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Appropriate Drugs
This chapter investigates the interviewees’ perceptions of the legitimacy of their own and others’ drug use. Here, the initial focus is on prescribed...
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Conclusions
The women who were interviewed for this book have shown that the use of drugs can be very different from stereotypical representations. Many accounts...
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Enchanted Worldviews and Violence Against Persons with Albinism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Across Africa, news reports and scholarly discussions have revealed the constant attacks and violence perpetrated against persons with albinism....
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Africa and Violence: The Metamorphosis and Participation of Child Soldiers in Conflict Zones
In 2017, the advocacy group for Child Soldiers International estimated that more than 100,000 children were forced to become soldiers in State and...
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Violence against Nature in African Traditional Thought and Practice
This chapter departs from the romanticized view of the role of African traditional beliefs and myths in sha** attitudes to nature. The discussion...
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Through the Afrocentricity Lens: Terror, Insurgency and Implications for Regional Integration in Southern Africa from Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique
This chapter examines the motivations and implications of terror and insurgency and their significance for regional integration, focusing on...
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Violence Against Disabled Children in Botswana
After 15 years, in 2020, the Government of Botswana has finally acceded to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
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The Chemical Violence of Colonial Encounters in Africa: Historiographical Reflections and Theoretical Perspectives
Violence and genocide defined settler colonialism in Africa. The relationship between “settlers” as citizens and “natives” as subjects was...
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Understandings of Sexual Consent Amongst Young Adults
Young people in Australia are particularly vulnerable to sexual assault with over 40% of reported assaults occurring between the ages of 15 and 35....
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The First Visits
This chapter explores how the women encountered drugs for the first time, and where they went after those first encounters. Attention is paid to how...
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What Is Affirmative Consent?
Affirmative consent was first articulated on college campuses in the United States in the 1990s. Affirmative consent demanded verbal, positive...
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Consent and Reproductive Coercion
This chapter maps a recent history of reproductive coercion and abuse in Australia centred on intimate partner relationships and familial...
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Youth, Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons, and Conflicts in 21st Century Africa
Africa is blessed with a young population that is energetic and within the cycle of productive engagement. Most African states have more than half of...
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Confronting Military Violence in Africa’s Electoral Spaces: Law, Institutions, and Remedies
The presence of the military in political spaces is a disturbing phenomenon around the world, with Africa being most affected, yet researchers have...
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Epistemic Violence in the Postcolony: Interrogating the Colonial Legacy and War in Francophone African Literature
The trope of violence, in its diverse iterations, is recurrent in colonial and postcolonial African literatures written in French. This chapter is...
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Youth, Violence, and Political Accumulation: Urban Militias in Zimbabwe
The chapter examines the ways in which urban militias with political relations and connections engage in practices of violent accumulation in the...
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Conclusion
The chapters in this handbook have sought to make sense of the phenomenon of violence in the vast, historically and culturally diverse and...
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Violent Piracy off the Coast of Nigeria: A Theoretical Analysis
Piracy off the Nigerian coast is rife and violent due to its nature: “petro-piracy.” This chapter uses theories to analyze the nexus between piracy...
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The Rate of Oppression (ROp): The Apartheid Studies Approach to the Study of Harm
We know that the world is saturated with harm, yet in fact the world does not collapse on its foundations, nor does daily business necessarily grind...