From acts of terrorism to war, from arson to capital punishment,
from sadism to torture, performances of violence are all around us.
Sometimes they grab headlines and rivet our attention, sometimes
they are barely noticed, constituting part of our taken-for-granted
world. Yet whether dramatic or barely noticed, violence seems
everywhere to be on the rise. The essays in this volume explore the
relationship between selfhood, agency, and violence, focusing on
the psychic life of violence and its expression in the performances
of particular individuals. At the same time, they look more closely
at the way political contexts and ideologies shape both particular
performances of violence and the way they are understood. By
drawing on the expertise of scholars in a variety of fields -
anthropology, history, political theory, law, and social thought -
this book seeks to expose some of the subterranean cross currents
of the cultural lives of violence and, in doing, to reveal their
connections. In addition to the editors, contributors include
criminal justice scholar Mary Welek Atwell, anthropologist Veena
Das, historian Ruth Miller, political scientist Anne Norton,
political scientist Corey Robin, and historian Paul Steege.
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