1st Edition
Normalization of Violence Conceptual Analysis and Reflections from Asia
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introductionto violence: process, outcome, and types (Irm Haleem)
1. How violence is normalized: on the process of violence (Irm Haleem)
2. Moralizing militarism through educational curriculum in Japan (Naoko Kumada)
3. China’s security imperatives and violence in Xinjiang (Stefanie Kam)
4. From pacifism to violence in Buddhist Myanmar (Jennifer Dhanaraj)
5. Legalisation of violence against the Pakistani Ahmadis (Abdul Basit)
Some Reflections: ‘process’ and ‘outcome’ as simultaneous phenomenon (Irm Haleem)
Index
Biography
Irm Haleem is Assistant Professor in the Strategic Studies Program at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, where she is also the Deputy Coordinator of MS (International Relations) Program at RSIS. Haleem received a PhD in Political Science from Boston University, and her work focuses on the conceptual study of violence. She is the author of the book The Essence of Islamist Extremism: Recognition Through Violence, Freedom Through Death (Routledge 2012, paperback 2014). She has taught at Northeastern University, Seton Hall University, and Princeton University.
