Lena Spickermann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Racial profiling is a controversial practice used by the police and other security authorities and services (the latter will…
Kimberly Dresbach, Ruhr-Universität Bochum “Lynch law has become so common in the United States that the finding of a dead body of a…
Marie Holtmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum The video reportage “Sichten und Vernichten – Psychiatrie im Dritten Reich” by Ernst Klee and Gunnar Petrich (1988), shows…
Alexandra Menzel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Introduction Racial police violence has received increased media and political attention in the United States, most recently due to…
Shima Rezaei, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Introduction
With over 200 million victims around the world (UNICEF, 2016), the war against female bodies has been waged…
Helena Gellert, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
"Streets are the dwellings of the collective. The collectivity is an eternally awake, eternally moving being that experiences, realises and conceives…
Christian Gudehus, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, IFHV
Collective violence
Research on violence is not a discipline but a field or – if a closer look is taken…
Imad Alhajj, Uppsala Universitet
Throughout Islamic history, the notion of Hisba has undergone various periods of development and reconceptualization. Etymologically, Hisba is an Arabic term that literally…
Magdalena Weber, University College Maastricht
It is a sunny, warm July evening when around 12.000 people gathered on Hamburg’s Fish market to protest…
Klara Meyer-Wehrmann, University College Maastricht
Schools play an important role in child and youth development. Ideally, they provide a safe space for a…
* Warning: This text contains descriptions of extreme violence. *
Verena Muckermann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
“But when you saw, you could see the evidence,…
Jule Meyer, University College Maastricht
Since 2011 the US Air Force has been training more drone pilots than conventional pilots. Drone warfare has a…
Helena Gellert, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
In Belgium, the Aalst Carnival was on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List from 2010 to 2019 - until anti-Semitic…
Steven Braun, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
The relation between humans and animals is subject to constant change. At the beginning of human…