Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities

Fiona Greenland is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, USA.Fatma Müge Göçek is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies and the University of Michigan, USA.

• 1. Introduction; Part I: Definitions and Parameters; 2. The Genocidal Pressures on Indigenous Peoples: Capitalism’s Cultural and Environmental Violence; 3. Raphaël Lemkin: Genocide, Cultural Violence, and Community Destruction; 4. Linguistic Genocide; Part II: Epistemological Dimensions; 5. The Interconnected Histories of South African and American Sociology: Knowledge in the Service of Colonial Violence; 6. Jerusalem and Violence: The Transformation of Secular and Sacred Interpretations; 7. Monumental Destruction and Ontological Violence in the Islamic State; Part III: Spatial and Material Dimensions; 8. Community Destruction, Museum Collections and the Work of Resilience; 9. Tahrir, and The Many Faces of Violence in the Egyptian Revolution; 10. An Unraveling Landscape: Harput and Mezre during Turkey’s Transition from Empire to Republic