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If many kinds of violence are naturalized, and therefore invisible, and if everyday life for many people is itself a form of brutalization, then how do we render that violence visible without creating states of numbness and denial?
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Wexler, L. (2004). Filling the Sight by Force. In: Castelli, E.A., Jakobsen, J.R. (eds) Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981561_5
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