Violence
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 th...
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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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-913422025-02-05T16:25:28Z Violence Wästerfors, David Childhood history;Gender;Institutions;Narrative perspective;Political Violence;representations of violence;Sociology;storytelling;Technologies;Violence;Violence as storytelling;Violent actors;violent politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFK Violence and abuse in society 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. 2022-08-19T04:02:56Z 2022-08-19T04:02:56Z 2022-08-18T07:22:25Z 2023 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58002 9781032204383 9781032204482 9781000623994 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91342 eng Routledge Studies in Crime and Society open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/58002/1/9781000623994.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/58002/1/9781000623994.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003263579 10.4324/9781003263579 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Lunds Universitet 4132e290-e9a8-4f81-aa49-52c7c17e3065 9781032204383 9781032204482 9781000623994 Routledge 136 open access |
| spellingShingle | Childhood history;Gender;Institutions;Narrative perspective;Political Violence;representations of violence;Sociology;storytelling;Technologies;Violence;Violence as storytelling;Violent actors;violent politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFK Violence and abuse in society Wästerfors, David Violence |
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| topic | Childhood history;Gender;Institutions;Narrative perspective;Political Violence;representations of violence;Sociology;storytelling;Technologies;Violence;Violence as storytelling;Violent actors;violent politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFK Violence and abuse in society |
| topic_facet | Childhood history;Gender;Institutions;Narrative perspective;Political Violence;representations of violence;Sociology;storytelling;Technologies;Violence;Violence as storytelling;Violent actors;violent politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFK Violence and abuse in society |
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