LEADER 02308nam 2200361 450 001 9910586571703321 005 20230517140803.0 035 $a(CKB)5580000000361908 035 $a(NjHacI)995580000000361908 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000361908 100 $a20230517d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aViolence $eSituation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling /$fDavid Wa?sterfors 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cTaylor & Francis,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (136 pages) 311 $a1-000-62399-8 327 $aImagine ... 1.Violence as situation -- 2.Violence as specialty -- 3.Violence as politics -- 4.Violence as storytelling -- 5.Scraps and side-tracks. 330 $aThis 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. 517 $aViolence 606 $aViolence 615 0$aViolence. 676 $a303.6 700 $aWa?sterfors$b David$01271792 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910586571703321 996 $aViolence$92995955 997 $aUNINA