Full Description
This book explores the dynamics of excessive violence, using a broad range of interdisciplinary case studies. It highlights that excessive violence depends on various contingencies and is not always the outcome of rational decision making. The contributors also analyse the discursive framing of acts of excessive violence.
Contents
1. Introduction; Marco Gerster, Steffen Kramer and Daniel Ziegler PART I. DYNAMICS OF EXCESS 2. Emotional Dynamics of Violent Situations; Randall Collins 3. Forward Panic and Police Riots; Anne Nassauer 4. What the Situation Explains: On Riotous Violence; Ferdinand Sutterluty 5. Violence and Emotion; Bernhard Giesen 6. Neo-Fascist Heroes: Group Identity and Idealisation of the Aggressor in Violent Right-wing Adolescents; Michael Gunter 7. Intimate Massacres: Next Steps Toward a Causal Explanation; Jack Katz PART II. DISCOURSE AND IMAGINATION 8. German Rampage: Social Discourse and the Emergence of a Disturbing Phenomenon; Jorn Ahrens 9. Amok - Framing Discourses on Political Violence by Means of Symbolic Logic; Peter Klimczak and Christer Petersen 10. Terrorism as Cultural Bricolage - The Case of Anders Behring Breivik; Sveinung Sandberg 11. Tales of Abuse and Torture. The Narrative Framing of the Abu Ghraib Photographs; Werner Binder 12. The (Relative) Absence of Torture in Documentary Photography; Annette Vowinckel 13. Off Limits? International Law and the Excessive Use of Force; Jan Klabbers
