Violence : Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling

Violence : Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling

Crime & criminology
Social theory
Violence 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.

Wästerfors, David

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91342

Taylor & Francis

2023

Dwi Prihastuti

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

pdf

English

textbooks

DOI : 10.4324/9781003263579