Violence situation, speciality, politics and storytelling /
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2022.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in crime and society
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. Itoutlines 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781003263579 1003263577 1000623998 9781000624069 1000624064 9781000623994 |