Why Humans Fight - The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (Hardcover)

Malesevic offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting possible. He argues that fighting is not an individual attribute, but a social phenomenon shaped by one's relationships with other people. Drawing on recent scholarship across a variety of academic disciplines as well as his own interviews with the former combatants, Malesevic shows that one's willingness to fight is a contextual phenomenon shaped by specific ideological and organisational logic. This book explores the role biology, psychology, economics, ideology, and coercion play in one's experience of fighting, emphasising the cultural and historical variability of combativeness. By drawing from numerous historical and contemporary examples from all over the world, Malesevic demonstrates how social pugnacity is a relational and contextual phenomenon that possesses autonomous features.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2022
Authors:	Sinisa Malesevic
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-916279-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
LSN:	1-00-916279-9
Barcode:	9781009162791

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