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...

ver descrição completa

Na minha lista:
Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wästerfors, David (auth)
Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Taylor & Francis 2023
Colecção:Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Assuntos:
Acesso em linha:DOAB: download the publication
DOAB: description of the publication
Tags: Adicionar Tag
Sem tags, seja o primeiro a adicionar uma tag!
Descrição
Resumo: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.
Descrição Física:1 electronic resource (136 p.)
ISBN:9781003263579
9781032204383
9781032204482
9781000623994
Acesso:Open Access