Browsing by Subject "Violence"
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Achieving gender equality through feminist social movements: A case study of Ni Una Menos (Not One Less)
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2023)The Ni Una Menos (Not One Less) Movement emerged as a direct response to the alarming increase of femicide in Argentina. This paper analyses how the Ni Una Menos movement mobilises various resources for gender equality. ... -
Daring, substance use and involvement in violence among school children
(Haworth Press (Taylor & Francis), 2006-09-22)This study explores whether the association between substance use and involvement in youth violence is a unique association resulting from the properties of the drugs, or whether it is part of a larger behavioral cluster. ... -
Detention without trial in the United Kingdom: From empire to the 'War on Terror'
(2014-05-16)This thesis analyses detention without trial in the United Kingdom by applying a socio-legal lens to several instances where these extra-judicial powers have been adopted. What will emerge from this examination is twofold. ... -
The disfigured ontology of figurational sociology: Norbert Elias and the question of violence
(Sage, 2012)This article scrutinises Norbert Elias s figurational sociology byfocusing on its ontological foundations. The analytical spotlight is onthe inherent tension between Elias s stance of normative neutralityand detachment, ... -
Editorial: The Spectre of Violence in Graduate Feminist Research
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Embattled families: Parents’ experiences of child to parent violence and abuse and of the non-violent resistance intervention
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-17)Despite extensive activity in the field of domestic violence in recent decades, the matter of child to parent violence and abuse has been largely ignored in policy, practice and research until relatively recently. While ... -
Nurses’ perceptions of the factors which cause violence and aggression in the emergency department: A qualitative study
(Elsevier, 2013-10-07)There has been an increase in violence and aggression in emergency departments (EDs) in recent years. Among professional health care workers, nurses are more likely than other staff members to be involved in aggressive ... -
The temporality of violence: Destruction, dissolution and the construction of sense
(Palgrave and McMillan, 2019-11-24)Violence tends to the destruction of meaningful entities and of that in and through which such entities are meaningful. Not all violence is annihilating in its effects, but violence aims towards a nothingness in which is ...