Peace, Culture, and Violence

Fuat Gursozlu, Ph.D. (2010), State University of New York at Binghamton, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He has published several essays on pluralism, violence, non-violent political protest, and agonistic democracy.

• Editorial ForewordDanielle PoeNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Fuat Gursozlu1 A Critique of Thug CultureAndrew Fiala2 The Role of Language in Justifying and Eliminating Cultural ViolenceWilliam C. Gay3 Getting at the “Root Cause”: Why a “Culture of Violence” is the Wrong Place to FocusTodd Jones4 Cultural Violence, Hegemony, and Agonistic InterventionsFuat Gursozlu5 Two Semites Confront Anti-Semitism: On the Varities of Anti-Semitic ExperienceAmin Asfari and Ron Hirschbein6 The War on Drugs as Harm to Persons: Cultural Violence as Symbol and JustificationLloyd Steffen7 Terrorism and the Necessity of Oppositional Clarification in the “War” Against itSanjay Lal8 Just War Perspectives on Police ViolenceDavid Speetzen9 Cultural Violence and Gender Injustice in Africa: The Necessity for Enlightened Self-InterestLaleye Solomon Akinyemi10 War is America’s Altar: Violence in the American ImaginationAlessandro Rovati11 Michel Foucault’s Theory of Practices of the Self and the Quest for a New Philosophical AnthropologyEdward Demenchonok12 Toward a New Conception of Socially-Just PeaceJoshua M. HallIndex