Introduction - Emergent Axioms of Violence: Toward an Anthropology of Post-Liberal Modernity
Stavroula Pipyrou and Antonio Sorge
1. Refusals of Tolerance: Hunger, Mercy, and the Ethics of Immediacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
David Henig
2. Anxiety, Ambivalence, and the Violence of Expectations: Migrant Reception and Resettlement in Sicily
Antonio Sorge
3. Temporalities of Emergent Axiomatic Violence in Brexit Scotland
Gabriela Manley
4. ‘Rebirthing’ the Violent Past: Friction Between Post-Conflict Axioms of Remembrance and Cambodian Buddhist Forgetting
Carol A. Kidron
5. To Cut Down the Dreaming: Epistemic Violence, Ambivalence and the Logic of Coloniality
Amanda Kearney
6. Afterword: Axioms of Violence
Angelique Haugerud
7. Afterword: Limits, Events, and Anthropology’s Complicity in Axiomatic Violence
Daniel M. Knight
Biography
Stavroula Pipyrou is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. Her most recent book is Lurking Cold War: Life Through Historical Communion (2025). She is the co-editor of the series Routledge Advances in Minority Studies.
Antonio Sorge is Assistant Professor and Director of the Centre for Ethnography in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. He has published widely on Sardinia and more recently on Sicily, where he is conducting research on the political, economic, and cultural legacies of post-Unification history.
