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Violence - A Reader (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,108
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Violence - A Reader (Paperback): Catherine Besteman

Violence - A Reader (Paperback)

Catherine Besteman

Series: Main Trends of the Modern World

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Historians consider the previous century to have been one of the most violent periods in human history. As we move into an era where violence is sanitized and normalized in the media, and depicted as glamorous and fun, how will we relate to the violence in our midst? Why do people and their governments choose to engage in violent activity? How to peaceful people who live under violent conditions such as warfare or domestic abuse make sense of it?

Catherine Besteman tackles these questions in this multi-disciplinary anthology that explores the topic of violence from a wide variety of perspectives. The first section focuses on state violence and deals with nationalism, warmaking and the Nazi genocide. The second section treats the question of anti-state violence with essays on the IRA, Sihk rebels and the paramilitary conflict in the Balkans. The third section examines criminal violence such as armed robbery, murder and sexual assualt while the final section explores how ordinary citizens respond when their societies are suffused with violence. Combining classic essays by Max Weber and Hannah Arendt, with contemporary treatments by leading scholars such as Michael Taussig and Julie Peteet, this anthology is designed for course use and is accessible to undergraduate and graduate students.

Contributors: Max Weber, Charles Tilly, Hannah Arendt, Zygmunt Bauman, Martha Crenshaw, Deborah Poole, Cynthia Mahmood, Begonia Aretxaga, Rhonda Copelon, Jack Katz, Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Fraser, Michael Taussig, Julie Peteet, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, and Carolyn Nordstrom.

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Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Main Trends of the Modern World
Release date: June 2002
First published: June 2002
Editors: Catherine Besteman
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-9900-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
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LSN: 0-8147-9900-0
Barcode: 9780814799000

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