Violence : Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling / / David Wästerfors

• Autore: Wästerfors David
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (136 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.6
• Soggetto topico: Violence
• Nota di contenuto: Imagine ... 1.Violence as situation -- 2.Violence as specialty -- 3.Violence as politics -- 4.Violence as storytelling -- 5.Scraps and side-tracks.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Violence
• Titolo autorizzato: Violence
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910586571703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II