
Violence
Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling
David Waesterfors(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-032-20448-2 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
Brimming with novel insights, Waesterfors lays out a vast array of new paths for research as he masterfully reviews a generation of research on violence.Jack Katz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCLA "Brimming with novel insights, Waesterfors lays out a vast array of new paths for research as he masterfully reviews a generation of research on violence".
Jack Katz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCLA
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate
Illustrations
1 farbige Abbildung, 1 Farbfoto bzw. farbiges Rasterbild
1 Halftones, color; 1 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-20448-2 (9781032204482)
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Person
David Waesterfors is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden.
Content
Imagine... 1.Violence as situation 2.Violence as specialty 3.Violence as politics 4.Violence as storytelling 5.Scraps and side-tracks