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Course name: The Anthropology of Violence

Institution: Portland State University

Instructor: Michele Gamburd

Wikipedia Expert: Brianda (Wiki Ed)

Subject: Cultural Anthropology

Course dates: 2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC – 2024-03-27 23:59:59 UTC

Approximate number of student editors: 30

About the course: This course presents an upper division introduction to the anthropology of violence. We discuss three different forms of violence: structural violence (violence imposed by large-scale social structures), symbolic violence (violence inherent in identity politics such as sexism, racism, ethnocentrism, and jingoistic nationalism), and state violence (violence imposed by states on their citizens through a variety of tactics). We end with a discussion of human rights and resistance to violence. Throughout the course, positive alternatives for peace and conflict resolution are presented.

About the Wikipedia assignment: Each student will interact with a Wikipedia article to create a new entry or improve an existing 'stub' entry. Each student will read approximately 15 external sources and spend about as much time revising their chosen article as they would spend writing a term paper for the course. Students may choose one of the articles that the instructor has suggested (see 'articles' in the menu at the top of the page and click on the 'available articles' tab) or find and choose another article to work on. (If you find your own article, please run it by the instructor to make sure that it fits the parameters of the assignment before sinking a lot of work into it.)

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Dtalla	Anglophone Crisis	Identity Politics, Femicide
Bsantiago97	Refugee crisis	Germans of Serbia, Workplace violence
Wrig36	Identity Politics	Femicide, Gender inequality in China
Chase2424	Cultural identity	State violence, Protracted social conflict
Winter-PSU	Inequality in post-apartheid South Africa	Afghan refugees, State violence
Skyjay999	State violence	Protracted social conflict, Cultural identity
KCterm	Gender inequality in China	Violence and intersectionality, Anglophone Crisis
JamBing	Femicide	Gender inequality in China, Violence and intersectionality
Zmbois	Slow violence	Cultural identity, State violence
MacBook2024	Slow violence	Economic violence, Cultural identity
Orangetruncate	Economic violence	Slow violence, Cultural identity
Gopp22	Germans of Serbia	Paleopathology, Workplace violence
Kreiswig	Domestic violence against men	Protracted social conflict, Cultural identity
Jmoney69420911		Identity Politics, Gender inequality in China
Szelinsky	Slow violence	State violence, Economic violence
Aemoe85	State violence	Slow violence, Economic violence
Vedisobe	Buddhism and violence	Inequality in post-apartheid South Africa, Afghan refugees
FrozenFrosch	Afghan refugees	State violence, Gender inequality in Japan
JHaupt46	Paleopathology	Refugee crisis, Germans of Serbia
Cognitura	Gender inequality in Japan	Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders, Buddhism and violence
Snazzysugarplum	Violence and intersectionality	Anglophone Crisis, Identity Politics
Tarabien	Violence and intersectionality	Gender inequality in Japan, Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders
AverageEccentric	Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders	Buddhism and violence, Inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
Grackle.cackle	Protracted social conflict	Cultural identity, State violence
EliasSpence84	Refugee crisis, Structural violence	Protracted social conflict, State violence