ABSTRACT
As Frantz Fanon noted in The Wretched of the Earth in 1961 and Hans Magnus Enzensberger and John Keane have rearticulated recently in Civil Wars and Reflections on Violence respectively, violence, and especially everyday violence, brings about a complex crisis of conscience. Everyday violence is common rather than rare. It is the violence that is intertwined with, and therefore configures, people’s everyday lives of public or private work, sustenance, recreation, and intimate relations. In the case of a large number of women, rape and battering are everyday violence. For Turks in today’s Germany, everyday violence is a function of skinheads’ neo-Nazi attacks. In Rwanda and Afghanistan, everyday violence is post-colonially spawned by the conflicts of current warlords. Edna Azaria and the Dahisha kindergarten teachers speak from unlike social locations.
