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	UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
		By symbolic violence, Bourdieu meant a soft sort of violence which is exercised upon a social agent with his or her complicity.
		The educators perform symbolic violence by imposing meanings as 'legitimate by concealing the power relations which are the basis of its force' and at the same time communicating a logic of disinterest (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1977, p.4).
		Bourdieu's major originality is to be found in his development of a micro theory of social power that aimed at an anti-essentialism that would reveal all the sources of domination, but especially that symbolic or genteel violence used by the dominant to legitimate their power.
	www.um.edu.mt /pub/tribute_to_bourdieu.html

	Computers and cultural capital
		It is through the acquisition of capital, and the use of symbolic capital to perpetrate symbolic violence that classes ensure their own legitimacy and reproduction.
		.] symbolic violence first insofar as the power relations between the groups or classes making up a social formation are the basis of the arbitrary power which is the precondition for the establishment of a relation of pedagogic communication, i.e.
		Bourdieu and Passeron, the more this process of symbolic violence is hidden from sight and left unchallenged, the more powerful it is in reproducing class dominance:
	www.louisville.edu /~ippand02/cultcap.htm

	UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
		By operating as a 'cultural arbitrary' and performing 'symbolic violence', the educational institution has the potential to impose dominant culture as 'legitimate' by concealing the power relations which are the basis of its force, and at the same time, communicating a logic of disinterest.
		This occured through the U3E's giving legitimacy to the rising bourgeoisie's culture and through its perpetration of 'symbolic violence' by subjugating lower class learners to alien tastes and values.
		Symbolic capital involves the capacity to impose the legitimate vision of the social world and refers to signs of the dispositions and classificatory schemes that can either betray one's real origins and trajectory through social life or else can become manipulated to communicate false origins and trajectories.
	www.um.edu.mt /pub/formosam9.html

	Symbolic Violence
		Symbolic violence is not any form of domination exercised through communication; it is the exercise of domination through communication in such a way that the domination is misrecognized as such and thereby recognized as legitimate.
		And, as a consequence, the most striking manifestation of symbolic violence is the silence to which those dispossessed of the official language are condemned, and condemn themselves, on `formal' or `official' occasions: lacking the means of legitimate expression, they do not speak but are spoken to.
		For Bourdieu, the exercise of symbolic violence presupposes that those who do not possess the competence to perform according to the codes privileged by the official language recognize the legitimacy of a language they cannot speak, i.e., they adopt some criteria of evaluation unfavourable for their own daily practice.
	ibs.lgu.ac.uk /forum/BOURDIEU.htm

	Terror in the Mind of God (Mark Juergensmeyer)
		Another theme is the placing of violence within the context of a cosmic war, a symbolic and transcendent conflict; accompanying this, the movement's casualties become martyrs and their opponents are demonised.
		Related to this is the valorisation of the warrior (religious violence often involves ex-military personnel), coupled with male bonding and an appeal to men "on the margins".
		Juergensmeyer concludes Terror in the Mind of God with suggestions for the future of religious violence that are certain to be controversial, arguing that "the cure for religious violence may ultimately lie in a renewed appreciation for religion itself" and in acknowledgement of religion in public life.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Terror_God.html

	On "Sharecroppers"
		Overwhelmingly, such violence in the South was perpetrated by whites on blacks in the name of white racial superiority and solidarity.
		If the protagonist is ultimately identified as a black sharecropper, then no "manly" union whites appear in the poem, and we are left with only the forecasted and symbolic "white-oak" to represent the agency of sympathetic white sharecroppers.
		As opposed to scabs and non-union workers, union members were men (regardless of race) who defended their rights and families by challenging their capitalist bosses.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/brown/onshare.htm

	cecsst.159.txt
		Free speech does not guarantee you can say whatever - whenever - "offensive words" might cause violence - soldiers might not like the statement overturned.
		Symbolizes Freedom of Speech - If law furthers an important government interest, law is illegal O'Brien was found guilty.
		Convince the school that they might be in violation of Freedom of Speech.
	youth.net /cec/cecsst/cecsst.159.txt (680 words)

	SFI - On integration (1818)
		This position is tentatively described as "outsiderness" by way of the concepts recognition, symbolic capital and symbolic violence, and it is suggested that such concepts capture basic conditions of minorities pivotal to processes of integration.
		This paper aims at elucidating the impact of symbolic matters for processes of integration of ethnic minorities.
		The starting point is two categories of immigrants, vulnerable minority youth and returnmigrants that have little in common except a tense or ackward position vis-a-vis Danish society.
	www.sfi.dk /sw19319.asp (680 words)

	CONSTITUTIONAL REGULATION OF SYMBOLIC SPEECH IN PARKS - CLARK v. COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE
		CONSTITUTIONAL REGULATION OF SYMBOLIC SPEECH IN PARKS - CLARK v.
		Community for Creative Non-Violence find the regulatory prohibition against camping, with its ban on sleeping overnight, to be "a reasonable regulation of the manner in which a demonstration may be carried out," i.e, "valid time, place, or manner restrictions on CCNV's constitutional rights"?
		CASE STUDY: CONSTITUTIONAL REGULATION OF SYMBOLIC SPEECH IN PARKS - CLARK v.
	classweb.gmu.edu /jkozlows/ceu31a.htm (291 words)

	Daily urges Clinton to make courageous, earnest, move against Iran
		Political Violence and Stability in the States of the Northern Persian Gulf
		Although, perhaps, the Clinton administration, which is in its last days in the Oval Office, will no longer be able to accomplish much more in melting the ice, the fact is that Clinton can at least, in light of a symbolic initiative, "register a new balance" under the name of Democrats, expected the paper.
		The English-language daily was editorializing on the belief of many political experts that the presence of Clinton and his secretary of state, Madeliene Albright, at President Khatami's UN address, is a sign of Washington's willingness to resume a new round of diplomatic ties with Tehran.
	www.payvand.com /news/00/sep/1045.html (507 words)

	Irish Peace Society - Nationalism and Gender: The Construction of Identity
		Femininity is generally produced as a means of supporting the nation's construction, through symbolic, moral, and biological reproduction; in turn, it is precisely because it is a masculine project that nation becomes feminized and figured in service to male needs (Mayer, 2000a).
		Even though her rape was a personal act of violence, through restricting Miss X's travel to England to obtain an abortion, and prohibiting her from leaving Ireland altogether, the boundaries of her female body and the boundaries of the Irish nation became conflated (Martin, 2000).
		National battles over reproduction, representation, and control over sexuality are inevitably complicated by social and political hierarchies: not only are there gender, class and sexual hierarchies within every nation, but hierarchies separate different nations as well.
	www.csn.ul.ie /~peacesoc/read/natiomasculinity.html (4194 words)

	Girard
		One might conclude from these observations that if physical violence in war is a symbolic act that seeks to deny the enemy his or her subjectivity, then rhetorical acts that seek to destroy the identity of the other ought to be considered violent, and thus unethical.
		The myth of redemptive violence assumes that killing and violence are inherent to human existence and that they are the means by which human societies save and recreate themselves.
		Furthermore, this myth legitimates the granting of power to those who have distinguished themselves by forging order out of chaos through the exercise of violence, as so many Americans were willing to do, for example, during the Cold War with respect to their political and military leaders.
	www.bluffton.edu /~mastg/Girard.htm (4194 words)

	Colombia
		In Manizales, Colombia, health workers are committed to preventing the ill-treatment of children through a symbolic vaccination against violence campaign.
		The first step consists of a number of meetings aimed at helping adults, health workers and people working for the town of Manizales become more aware of the issues of violence and ill-treatment of children as well as the importance of symbolic vaccination and the way to administer it.
		The first experiment in vaccination against violence was performed in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, in 1996 with the support of the mayor, Antanas Mockus, during which 40,000 symbolic vaccinations were administered over a ten day period.
	portal.unesco.org /education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6924&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (960 words)

	Jean Baudrillard: The Spirit of Terrorism
		The very derision of the situation, as well as all the piled up violence of power, flips against it, for terrorist actions are both the magnifying mirror of the system's violence, and the model of a symbolic violence that it cannot access, the only violence it cannot exert: that of its own death.
		It is even probable that the terrorists (like the experts!) did not anticipate the collapse of the Twin Towers, which was, far more than (the attack of) the Pentagon, the deepest symbolic shock.
		The fundamental event is that terrorists have finished with empty suicides; they now organize their own death in offensive and efficient ways, according to a strategic intuition, that is the intuition of the immense fragility of their adversary, this system reaching its quasi perfection and thus vulnerable to the least spark.
	awake.sparklehouse.com /downloads/papers/baud_terr.html (960 words)

	Women and Children in Violent South African Townships - Graeme Simpson
		Motsei argues that this violence is particularly symbolic of white South Africans' insecurities in a period of political flux and uncertainty where the most "dangerous enemy" was the "enemy within" - those black South Africans who had easy access to their white oppressors.
		It is as a result of the consequent excessive social, political, criminal and domestic violence in South African society that is have become possible to talk of a "culture of violence".
		Evidence suggests that 1990, particularly after February 2nd, saw a remarkable increase in violence by white home-owners directed against their black domestic workers.
	www.csvr.org.za /papers/papwoch.htm (960 words)

	(((i))) Indymedia Liege - World Court on War as Crime by women around the world at WSF of Mumbai
		The World Court of Women, through personal testimonies of violence and of resistance, analyses of expert witnesses and inspiring vision statements of a jury of wise women and men, attempted to understand the roots of all wars in our times towards evolving more holistic perspectives for peace in the new millennium.
		The first Asian Court of Women on violence (1992) was held in Lahore, Pakistan with the Simorgh Collective and focussed on domestic violence, from dowry burning to acid throwing, to crimes of honour, to rape and women battering.
		The Court also documented the testimonies of the women and children on the violence of the sanctions.
	liege.indymedia.org /news/2003/12/841.php (2115 words)

	San Mateo County -- Board of Supervisors -- -- White Ribbon Campaign
		The wearing of a white ribbon is a statement that you will never commit, condone, nor remain silent about violence against women.
		After only six weeks, as many as 100,000 men across Canada wore the symbolic white ribbon.
		With that, the wearing of the white ribbon became a symbol of men's opposition to men's violence against women.
	www.co.sanmateo.ca.us /smc/department/printable/0,,1864_4318233_6476396,00.html (2115 words)

	Cultural revolution for J&K
		This symbolic resurrection a mode of cultural unification divided India will be the beginning of atonement for the sacrifice of two million innocent lives serve the people and the environment and all the heritages of the region on behalf of the subcontinent as a whole.
		In an interview with Ajeel Cow, he speaks about Mahatma Gandhi, truth, non-violence, India, Pakistan and the Kashmir conflict: How far is the idea of non-violence still valid in today's politics?
		India and Pakistan, as undivided India, attained freedom through non-violence.
	www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives2002/kashmir20020214d.html (996 words)

	Reason magazine -- March 2001, The Whipping Boy by Jib Fowles
		General apprehension about the course of history is in several senses the opposite of video violence -- the passivity of fear vs. the frenzy of aggression, the amorphous vs. the detailed, and the actual vs. the symbolic.
		Whatever its immediate source, the energy that breathes life into the whipping boy of television violence has its ultimate origins in fear -- fear of disorder that, in the extreme, could overturn society.
		Television violence is a whipping boy, a stand-in for other clashes, real or imagined.
	www.reason.com /0103/fe.jf.the.html (3720 words)

	AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 87
		This assault took many forms: a return to sources of oral storytelling (the mother, the midwife); the inversion of the symbolic categories that underlie discrimination (high/low, pure/impure); use of the grotesque as a means to lure the reader into unfamiliar territory; and an exploration of the interdependence of violence and the erotic.
		The outcast neighborhood of his childhood is transformed in his work into the roji, or alleyway, a symbolic locus of the burakumin from which he launched an assault on majority language and culture.
		Nakagami Kenji's fiction upsets and re invents the symbolic hierarchies that oppress his people, the burakumin.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/japan/jses87.htm (2201 words)

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		Using the case of Zikris the author concludes that to the extent that women embody these symbolic truths, violence directed against them in the name of Islam flows from these psychodynamics.
		Violence and the Feminine in Islam: a case study of the Zikris, in Women and Religion: Seeds of Violence Vol.
		She then outlines the Zikri rituals stepwise and compares it to the historico-cultural and religious roots of the sub continent.
	www.un.org.pk /library/Women_Biblio/wbabs031.htm (378 words)

	Reason magazine -- March 2001, The Whipping Boy by Jib Fowles
		General apprehension about the course of history is in several senses the opposite of video violence -- the passivity of fear vs. the frenzy of aggression, the amorphous vs. the detailed, and the actual vs. the symbolic.
		Whatever its immediate source, the energy that breathes life into the whipping boy of television violence has its ultimate origins in fear -- fear of disorder that, in the extreme, could overturn society.
		As one astute observer put it a few years back during a previous cycle of panic, "The debate about children and media violence is really a debate about other things, many of which have very little to do with the media."
	reason.com /0103/fe.jf.the.shtml (3720 words)

	Eco-terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The FBI's Domestic Terrorism Section defines eco-terrorism as "the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature."
		While there is no consensus on the exact definition of "terrorism", the word is typically used to describe politically motivated acts of violence with the intention to intimidate governments or civilians.
		Many of the arguments in this respect concern what may be considered violence, and in particular whether acts which are destructive to property but avoid harm to human beings may be considered terrorism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eco-terrorism (791 words)

	HRW: Nigeria: The “Miss World Riots”: Continued Impunity for Killings in Kaduna: II. BACKGROUND4
		The 2000 violence in Kaduna had repercussions elsewhere in the country, particularly in the southeast, as predominantly Christian ethnic groups, such as the Igbo, took revenge for the killings of Christians in Kaduna and turned against Muslim populations in their areas.
		Following the 2002 violence, this physical segregation of parts of the city appears to have increased — an indication of deepening polarization in what was once a genuinely mixed population.
		The city of Kaduna, the capital of Kaduna State, is one of the largest in northern Nigeria and is viewed by some as the symbolic capital of the north.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2003/nigeria0703/2.htm (2596 words)

	Guernica by Picasso
		This huge composition, prompted by the Spanish Civil War expresses in complex and personal symbolic iconography the artist's abhorrence of the violence and beastliness of war.
		Their research results in the articulation of the symbolic meaning embodied in the work, and together with a formal analysis of the visual elements provides the viewer with important insights into the artistic process from inception of the idea to the completed art work.
		Most people are aware the painting is the artist's protest against the Nazi bombing of the Basque village of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, but how many can 'read' the symbolic imagery of the work?.
	www.deakin.edu.au /education/visarts/example1.htm (2596 words)

	On Flag-Burning, "Violence" and "Anti-Americanism"
		Just because someone self -defines as a practitioner of non-violent direct action or “non-violence” doesn't necessarily mean that they are themselves dismissive of other groups that use different tactics, or see themselves as part of a separate “movement”.
		But if someone seriously considers flag-burning and similar symbolic actions to be “violent”, they are making a mistake, a mistake with practical consequences when one says this to others.
		While dogmatism should always be challenged, it is also important for those of us who do not share their perspective to be dismissive of those who adhere to non-violence.
	www3.sympatico.ca /ptimusk/newsletterv1.1.html (2596 words)

	Anarchist Politics & Direct Action by Rob Sparrow
		Actions which involve a high degree of aggression, confrontation or potential violence may breed hostility and aggression within us which might hamper our ability to work productively in other political circumstances.
		Some of the issues raised will be, the role of anarchists in other political movements, the difference between direct action and symbolic action, the various traditional types of direct action and the proper attitude of activists towards the police and the media.
		Any action short of revolution is to some extent both moral and symbolic.
	www.spunk.org /library/intro/sp001641.html (2596 words)

	Eco-terrorism - Wikipedia
		The FBI's Domestic Terrorism Section defines eco-terrorism as "the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature."
		While there is no consensus on the exact definition of "terrorism", the word is typically used to describe politically motivated acts of violence, threatened use of violence or the destruction of property with the intention to intimidate governments or civilians.
		Other acts, which are nonviolent in nature, cannot be properly referred to as "eco-terrorism" even though they might be annoying or disruptive to others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecoterrorism (2596 words)

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