RT Article
T1 ‘Kill all the sorcerers’: the interconnections between sorcery, violence, war and peace in Bougainville
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 59
IS 4
SP 842
OP 861
A1 Forsyth, Miranda
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1668005840
AB This paper provides new insights into how violence in war structures peacetime violence by highlighting how war alters ontological positions or worldviews, such as those concerning the relevance of threat of harm through spiritual means. It presents a detailed case study of sorcery accusations and related violence before, during and after Bougainville’s decade long civil war. New empirical data are used to illustrate the mechanisms through which violence against those accused of sorcery was enabled and legitimized during the war and how this remains linked to contemporary sorcery accusations and related violence two decades after peace. Drawing on Braithwaite and D’Costa’s framework of cascades of violence, the paper also tracks the ways in which sorcery discourses, practices and beliefs cascade to war.
K1 Sorcery
K1 Witchcraft
K1 War
K1 Violence
K1 Cascades of violence
K1 Peace
K1 Zauberei
K1 Hexenwesen
K1 Bougainville
DO 10.1093/bjc/azy047