Jane Kilby, Larry Ray

Violence and Society: Toward a New Sociology

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Produktbeschreibung

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 violence * Develops innovative interdisciplinary theorizations based on new empirical studies on violence and society * Incorporates within an emerging analytical framework issues of war, domestic and gender-based violence, fighting, honor and shame, violence and identity, and politics and violence * Allows us to better understand the world we live in

Produktdetails

• Sociological Review Monographs
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781118942017
• ISBN-10: 1118942019
• Artikelnr.: 41123659

Autorenporträt

Jane Kilby is Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford. She is the author of Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma (2007). Larry Ray is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. He has researched and published on topics in sociological theory, globalization, post-communism, social memory, collective and interpersonal violence; and is the author of Violence and Society (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

About the Editors x
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Making Sense of Violence 1 Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe
Bourgois
Part I: Conquest and Colonialism 33
1 From Heart of Darkness 35 Joseph Conrad
2 Culture of Terror - Space of Death: Roger Casement's Puyumayo Report and
the Explanation of Torture 39 Michael Taussig
3 From Ishi in Two worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North
America 54 Theodora Kroeber
4 Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide 61 Nancy
Scheper-Hughes
5 Tribal Warfare 69 R. Brian Ferguson
6 From The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass 74 Robert J.
Gordon
Part II: The Holocaust 77
7 Right of Death and Power Over Life 79 Michel Foucault
8 The Gray Zone 83 Primo Levi
9 From Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 91 Hannah
Arendt
10 Initiation to Mass Murder: The Józefów Massacre 101 Christopher R.
Browning
11 From This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 109 Tadeusz Borowski
12 From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began 118 Art
Spiegelman
Part III: The Politics of Communal Violence 121
13 From "Hellhounds" 123 Leon F. Litwack
14 From Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among
Hutu Refugees in Tanzania 129 Liisa H. Malkki
15 From We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our
Families: Stories from Rwanda 136 Philip Gourevitch
Part IV: Why do People Kill? 143
16 Behavioral Study of Obedience 145 Stanley Milgram
17 Grief and a Headhunter's Rage 150 Renato Rosaldo
18 Why Did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and
Honor 157 Alexander Laban Hinton
Part V: The State Amok: State Violence and Dirty Wars 169
19 Talking Terror 171 Michael Taussig
20 Bodies, Death, and Silence 175 Nancy Scheper-Hughes
21 Living in a State of Fear 186 Linda Green
22 Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children 196 Jean Franco
23 The Fear of Indifference: Combatants' Anxieties about the Political
Identity of Civilians during Argentina's Dirty War 200 Antonius Robben
24 On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King 207 Allen
Feldman
25 The New War Against Terror: Responding to 9/11 217 Noam Chomsky
26 Violence Foretold: Reflections on 9/11 224 Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part VI: Violence and Political Resistance 227
27 Preface to Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth 229 Jean-Paul Sartre
28 From On Violence 236 Hannah Arendt
29 Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland
Ethnic Violence 244 Begoña Aretxaga
30 Who's the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African
Squatter Camp 253 Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part VII: Peacetime Crimes: Everyday Violence 267
31 Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege
269 Michael Taussig
32 Symbolic Violence 272 Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant
33 Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of
Indifference to Child Death 275 Nancy Scheper-Hughes
34 On suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 281 Paul Farmer
35 Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in
Post-Sandinista Nicaragua 290 James Quesada
36 "The Lower Classes Smell," from Road to Wigan Pier 297 George Orwell
37 US Inner-City Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal
Violence 301 Philippe Bourgois
38 Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave
308 Eric Klinenberg
39 The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto 318
Loïc Wacquant
Part VIII: Gendered Violence 325
40 Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain 327 Veena
Das
41 From The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War 334 Mark
Danner
42 Gender and Symbolic Violence 339 Pierre Bourdieu
43 The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape 343 Philippe Bourgois
44 Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks 348 Stephen Donaldson
45 Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals 354 Carol
Cohn
Part IX: Torture 363
46 From The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World 365 Elaine
Scarry
47 From Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic
Abuse to Political Terror 368 Judith Herman
48 The Wet Bag and Other Phantoms 372 Antjie Krog
49 The Treatment of Children in the 'Dirty War': Ideology, State Terrorism,
and the Abuse of Children in Argentina 378 Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
Part X: Witnessing/Writing Violence 389
50 From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began 391 Art
Spiegelman
51 Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru 395 Orin
Starn
52 From War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents 402 Mark Pedelty
53 With Genet in the Palestinian Field 410 Ted Swedenburg
54 The Anthropologist as Terrorist 416 Joseba Zulaika
55 The Alternative Anthropology: Exercising the Preferential Option for the
Poor 420 Leigh Binford
56 The Continuum of Violence in War and Peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from
El Salvador 425 Philippe Bourgois
Part XI Aftermaths 435
57 The Witness 435 Giorgio Agamben
58 Colonial War and Mental Disorders 443 Frantz Fanon
59 From The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter 453 Albie Sachs
60 Undoing: Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse in the New South
Africa 459 Nancy Scheper-Hughes
61 From When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the
Genocide in Rwanda 468 Mahmood Mamdani
62 From The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness 475 Wole Soyinka
Index 478