Cultural Differences & Violence

“The emphasis on cultural differences – the attempt to hod the Other at a distance while claiming toc ross the interpretive divide – produces a diagram in which violence has its origins in ‘their’ space… while the impulse to understand is confined to our ‘space’, which is constructed as open, unitary and generous” (Gregory, 2008:37)

Gregory, D., 2008. The rush to the intimate: counterinsurgency and the cultural turn in late modern war. Available from: http://web.mac.com/derekgregory/iWeb/Site/The%20cultural%20turn%20and%20late%20modern%20war.html/. [27 Aug 2008].

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