Power, rights, freedom, technocracy and postcolonialism in sub-Saharan Africa by Monika dos Santos

“…Ultimately, the asymmetry of power breeds a silent brutality – disparities of power generally prevent the sharing of various prospects. …”
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“Things can change in a day”: by Khandakar Ashraful Islam, Shirin Akter

“…In The God of Small Things, the unexpected death of Sophie Mol and brutal killing of Velutha exposed those matrices of oppression which, lying unchallenged apart from jeopardizing Ammu and Velutha, problematized the psychic development of Rahel and Estha. …”
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O ORGIASMO NA DESCOLONIZAÇÃO: MODERNOS BRASILEIROS DE 22 by Carolina Maia Gouvêa

“… Em nenhuma obra da mitologia política brasileira, ideologia e utopia se arrostam de maneira tão contundente e brutal como em Os Sertões de Euclides da Cunha, em 1902. …”
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T. J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, and Director, Center for Creative Ecologies, University of California, Santa Cruz by T. J. Demos

“…in my view, the most compelling cultural work is that which explores and develops modes of ecology-as-intersectionality, wherein political ecology links with Indigenous and/or queer rights activism and/or movements against police brutality, media censorship, and capitalist extraction.…”
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Zero hour / by Hill, Will, 1979-, Department nineteen, author

“…After watching his father's brutal murder, sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter joins Department 19, a secret government agency, where he learns of the existence of vampires and the history that ties him to the team destined to stop them.…”

Syrian uprising : Arab League acts on Damascus by Dorsey, James M.

“…The Arab League has moved towards action to halt the brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters in Syria. …”
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The baby’s not for burning: the abject in Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Helen Oyeyemi’s Juniper’s Whitening by Anita Harris Satkunananthan

“…In both plays, a sense of domesticity being a farce underscoring brutality, torture and infanticide is present.…”
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Enormous changes at the last minute / by Paley, Grace, author 535942

“…Wry, sardonic, often brutally funny, she speaks with disconcerting honesty about people in and out of love, husbands and wives, parents and children, passing strangers. …”

A Long Way From Home / by Peter, Carey, author

“…Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. …”

THE ARMAGEDDON RAG / by Martin, George R. R., 1948- 423317

“…One-time underground journalist Sandy Blair has come a long way from his radical roots in the '60s--until something unexpectedly draws him back: the bizarre and brutal murder of a rock promoter who made millions with the '60s band the Nazgul. …”

OLIVER TWIST / by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author 457349

“…Under the tutelage of the satanic Fagin, the brutal Bill Sikes and the wily Artful Dodger, Oliver learns to survive, although he is destined not to stay with Fagin but to find his own place in the world. …”

Tribute / by Roberts, Nora, 1950-, author 465662

“…But someone else in the community wants Cilla to leave the past alone, and she becomes the target of increasingly brutal acts. Together with Sawyer, she must find out who is threatening her and what they're trying so hard to protect ...…”

The Gendarmerie, (In-)Security and Popular Reaction in West Cameroon, Federal Republic of Cameroon 1961–1964 by Walter Gam Nkwi, Henry Kam Kah, Martin Sango Ndeh

“…This was because of the brutality of Gendarmes on the civilian population, police and custom officers. …”
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Can Sri Lankan teachers afford to spare the rod? Teacher attitudes towards corporal punishment in school by Iresha M. Lakshman

“…They thought that CP becomes an “issue” only when teachers use it in brutal/inhuman manner with vindictive intents and as a means of stress release. …”
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The Gendarmerie, (In-)Security and Popular Reaction in West Cameroon, Federal Republic of Cameroon 1961–1964 by Walter Gam Nkwi, Henry Kam Kah, Martin Sango Ndeh

“…This was because of the brutality of Gendarmes on the civilian population, police and custom officers. …”
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Power, rights, freedom, technocracy and postcolonialism in sub-Saharan Africa by Monika dos Santos

“…Ultimately, the asymmetry of power breeds a silent brutality – disparities of power generally prevent the sharing of various prospects. …”
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A The Muslim Resolutions: Bosniak Responses to World War Two Atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (by Hikmet Karčić, Ferid Dautović, and Ermin Sinanović, eds.) by Abdullah Drury

“…The dictatorship was led by an extremist Roman Catholic nationalist faction who initiated a campaign of brutal violence against citizens of the Serb Orthodox church and others, many of whom then turned their anger towards the mostly unarmed Muslim civilians. …”
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Returnees in Sierra Leone by Claudena Skran

“…Over ten years of brutal civil war displaced approximately4.5 million people, about half Sierra Leone’s population.After the conflict ended in 2001, UNHCR facilitated theparticipation of both returnee refugees and returnee IDPsin community-level reconstruction projects.…”
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Syrian revolt : protestors at a crossroads by James M. Dorsey, Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan

“…After five months of mass anti-government protests and despite a brutal crackdown, opponents of Syrian president Bashar al Assad are struggling to contain sectarian strife, and prevent their demonstrations from turning violent. …”
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Pandemic/Screen. The visual motif of police violence in public spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic by Violeta Alarcón-Zayas, Miguel-Alfonso Bouhaben

“…In this state of exception, crossed by the rise of vigilantism, we propose to analyze the visual motif of police brutality in public spaces during the confinement. …”
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