02308nam 2200361 450 991058657170332120230517140803.0(CKB)5580000000361908(NjHacI)995580000000361908(EXLCZ)99558000000036190820230517d2023 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierViolence Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling /David WästerforsAbingdon, Oxon :Taylor & Francis,2023.1 online resource (136 pages)1-000-62399-8 Imagine ... 1.Violence as situation -- 2.Violence as specialty -- 3.Violence as politics -- 4.Violence as storytelling -- 5.Scraps and side-tracks.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.Violence ViolenceViolence.303.6Wästerfors David1271792NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910586571703321Violence2995955UNINA