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Hidden Structure of Violence - Who Benefits from Global Violence and War (Paperback)
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Hidden Structure of Violence - Who Benefits from Global Violence and War (Paperback)
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Acts of violence assume many forms: they may travel by the arc of a
guided missile or in the language of an economic policy, and they
may leave behind a smouldering village or a starved child. The all
pervasiveness of violence makes it seem like an unavoidable, and
ultimately incomprehensible, aspect of the modern world. But, in
this detailed and expansive book, Marc Pilisuk and Jen Rountree
demonstrate otherwise. Widespread violence, they argue, is in fact
an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it is
carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the
aim is to strengthen that order for the benefit of the powerful.
The Hidden Structure of Violence marshals vast amounts of evidence
to examine the costs of direct violence, including military
preparedness and the social reverberations of war, alongside the
costs of structural violence, expressed as poverty and chronic
illness. It also documents the relatively small number of people
and corporations responsible for facilitating the violent status
quo, whether by setting the range of permissible discussion or
benefiting directly as financiers and manufacturers. The result is
a stunning indictment of our violent world and a powerful critique
of the ways through which violence is reproduced on a daily basis,
whether at the highest levels of the state or in the deepest
recesses of the mind.
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