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Leontius in Vietnam: The Aesthetics of Violence in Michael Herr’s Dispatches
The killing was good in Vietnam, or so suggests Michael Herr’s Dispatches (1977), an account of his experiences as a war correspondent during the...
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Acts of Citizenship: Ruptures, Aesthetics of Nakedness and Rage Against Sexual Violence in South Africa
Citizenship generally refers to people’s legal status of a nation state obtained by birth or naturalization. T H Marshall linked citizenship to...
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Virtue Ethics, Aesthetics, and Reflective Practices in Business
This paper begins from the context of virtue ethics theory as applied to business ethics. We note that the concept of a practice therein lacks the...
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Landscapes of Slow Violence
“Landscapes of Slow Violence” analyzes digital photographs and video of environmental devastation and urban development in the Global South. Case...
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Feminist Aesthetics in Contemporary Art
Drawing on the claim that traditional normative aesthetics theory is not sufficient to understand and interpret feminist art, this chapter explores...
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Aesthetics of Participation in Film for Community Development: Watatu
This article explores how film as a mode of intervention in community development has deliberately integrated the aesthetics and poetics of...
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Alternative Aesthetics: An Engaged Path to Decolonial Education
AlterNative aesthetics is a concept that investigates the early stages of creating a space for new ideas to explore various possibilities for...
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Style, Aesthetics, and Methods in Feminist Art
This chapter questions the formalist approach to understanding feminist art and expressive theory and claims that feminist aesthetics theory is broad...
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Introduction: The Ambivalences of Violence
This short piece introduces readers to the aims of the Handbook of Violence in Film and Media. It discusses the representation of violence as a...
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Global burden of self-harm and interpersonal violence and influencing factors study 1990–2019: analysis of the global burden of disease study
IntroductionWidespread concern exists in today’s world regarding self-harm and interpersonal violence. This study to analyze the changes in temporal...
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Breaking Bad as Philosophy: The Moral Aesthetics of the Anti-hero’s Journey
Breaking Bad has been lauded as the best series ever on television by numerous critics and polls. It follows the “Breaking Bad” (i.e., the moral...
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Gender-Based Violence Without a Legal Gender: Imagining Single-Sex Services in Conditions of Decertification
This article considers what the implications of decertification would be for single-sex services such as domestic and sexual violence support. Some...
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Talking Across Differences: Networks, Law and the Violence of the Word
In this paper, I propose to use Johan Galtung’s notion of structural violence as aguide for linking society’s problems of processing social meaning...
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Colombian Popular Cinemas: Expressions from and About Violence
This article examines a film sector in Colombia ignored by film researchers and institutions, feature films made with a minimal budget from...
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The Changing Notions of Aesthetics in the Contemporary Sculptural Practices in India
Aesthetics is an analytical reflection and understanding of creative arts and sometimes refers to the principles of a specific genre of art, style,...
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The Irish Short Story and the Aesthetics of Silence
This chapter investigates the different ways in which the Irish short story can be considered an art of silence. Taking Joyce’s Dubliners as an...
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Aesthetics and Leadership
This chapter discusses how art and aesthetics are related to leadership experiences and events in organizations. Firstly critical,...
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The Aestheticization of Violence in Images
The paper aims to give a phenomenological account of the way in which the experience of violence is modified in the aesthetic images. The...
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Arts, Aesthetics and Human Rights: A Psychosocial Perspective
The goal of this chapter is to explore the connection of human rights and the arts/aesthetics, mainly by addressing the alienation of rights...
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The Aesthetics of Television: Genre, Auteur, Canon
This introductory chapter outlines the long—(er) history of the television art-form—the problems that it has presented for serious scholarship; the...