Violence : situation, speciality, politics and storytelling /

Violence : situation, speciality, politics and storytelling

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Main Author: Wästerfors, David
Corporate Author: Routledge
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2022.
Edition:1st Edition
Physical Description:VIII, 129 stron.
Series:Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Subjects:
Kryminologia
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Description:
This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by social researchers and thinkers. It does not provide a final answer to the question of what violence is or how it should be explained (or prevented), and instead offers a variety of useful ways of thinking about and theorising the phenomenon, mainly from a sociological standpoint. It outlines four ways of understanding violence: • Violence as situation: the tension that exists between category-driven and situational explanations. • Violence as speciality: the study of particularly violent actors, and how they may be understood by reference to childhood histories, technologies, institutions, culture, class, and gender. • Violence as politics: political violence and violent politics. • Violence as storytelling: representations of violence from a narrative perspective. Concluding with reflections on possible convergences between the four approaches and new directions for research, this book offers a unique and experimental approach to discussing and reconstructing the concept of violence. It is essential reading for criminologists, sociologists, and philosophers alike.


Table of Contents:
  • Imagine … (s. 1-9) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-1
  • Violence as situation (s. 10-36) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-2
  • Violence as specialty (s. 37-59) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-3
  • Violence as politics (s. 60-79) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-4
  • Violence as storytelling (s. 80-98) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-5
  • Scraps and side-tracks (s. 99-118) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263579-6