Full Description
Violence and Society features a multidisciplinary collection of readings by leading national and international experts that set a new agenda for our understanding of interpersonal and state violence in contemporary society.Features contributions from leading international experts in collective, state, and interpersonal violenceDevelops innovative interdisciplinary theorizations based on new empirical studies on violence and societyIncorporates within an emerging analytical framework issues of war, domestic and gender-based violence, fighting, honor and shame, violence and identity, and politics and violenceAllows us to better understand the world we live in
Contents
Series editor's acknowledgements vi Introduction 1 Jane Kilby and Larry Ray The socioeconomic function of evil 13 Steve Hall Trauma, guilt and the unconscious: some theoretical notes on violent subjectivity 32 Simon Winlow The sociological analysis of violence: new perspectives 50 Michel Wieviorka Is war becoming obsolete? A sociological analysis 65 Sinisa MalesevicFamily honour and social time 87 Mark Cooney Towards an embodied sociology of war 107 Kevin McSorley On violent democracy 129 Karl von Holdt Violence before identity: an analysis of identity politics 152 Glenn Bowman Competitive violence and the micro-politics of the fight label 166 Curtis Jackson-Jacobs Mainstreaming domestic and gender-based violence into sociology and the criminology of violence 187 Sylvia Walby, Jude Towers and Brian Francis Notes on contributors 215 Index 220
