Violence in War and Peace - Scheper-Hughes, Nancy / Bourgois, Philippe (eds.)
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From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology is the only book of its kind available: a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and Peace is a sweeping collection that looks at various concepts and modes of violence. Drawing from a remarkable range of sources, the editors juxtapose the routine violence of…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology is the only book of its kind available: a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and Peace is a sweeping collection that looks at various concepts and modes of violence. Drawing from a remarkable range of sources, the editors juxtapose the routine violence of everyday life---what scholars Taussig and Benjamin have termed "terror as usual"---against the sudden outcropping of unexpected, extraordinary violence such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the state violence of Argentina's "Dirty War", revolution, vigilante "justice," and organized criminal violence. Despite the impulse to distance ourselves from such acts, Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois take care to remind us that concepts of violence and aggression have often failed to acknowledge symbolic and structural forms. Yet, the most violent acts often involve conduct that is socially permitted---even encouraged---rather than condemned as deviant. In Violence in War and Peace , the editors offer a thought-provoking tool for students and thinkers from all walks of life: an exploration of violence at the broadest levels: personal, social, and political.
Autorenporträt
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley where she also directs doctoral studies in "Medicine, Science and the Body". As a critical anthropologist and outspoken public intellectual, Scheper-Hughes's lifework concerns the violence of everyday life from analyses of madness among "leftover" bachelors farmers in rural Ireland; the madness of hunger and the experience of mothering in Northeast Brazil; AIDS and sexual citizenship in Cuba, Brazil and the United States; violence, 'truth' and justice in the New South Africa; death squads, democracy, and the execution of Brazilian street children, to the global traffic in human organs. She is best known for her ethnographies, Death Without Weeping (l992) and Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics (l979, new, updated edition 2000). She has been the recipient of many awards and prizes including a Guggenheim, the Staley Prize, the Margaret Mead Award, the Wellcome Medal, the Bryce Wood Book Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award, and the Pietre Prize.Philippe Bourgois is Professor and Chair of the Medical Anthropology Program at the University of California, San Francisco. His most recent book, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (1995) was awarded the C. Wright Mills Prize and the Margaret Mead Prize. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on political violence, ethnic conflict, immigration and labor relations, and street children and has published several dozen academic and popular media articles on political and intimate violence as well as on substance abuse, inner-city poverty and ethnic conflict.
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"This comprehensive anthology is a must read. Recognizing andunderstanding the continuum of violence is a critical step inmeaningfully addressing the fact that violence is not specific, forexample, to war, but intimately woven throughout the fabric ofsociety."

Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1997)

"This remarkable work explores the sources and surfaces ofviolence -- public, private, political, symbolic, psychic.Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois transform our most fundamentalunderstanding of what it means to be a victim, an agent, or awitness. In these times of war and violence, this book has aresonance that echoes from the classroom to the state house and thestreet." Homi K. Bhabha, Rothenberg Professor ofLiterature, Harvard University

"Violence in War and Peace brings together amongthe most profound empirical and philosophical texts on modernviolence. Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois have created a volume thatchallenges fundamental issues concerning the crisis of humanitythat violence exposes. This critical and politically responsiblebook should be read by students and researchersalike."Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen and James CookUniversity

"It showcases the great relevance of ethnographic research andwriting--compared to other approaches--for thinking aboutviolence and suffering. This collection will be an invaluableresource for teachers and learners, a comprehensive anthology forintroductory classes, or a companion volume for more in-depthseminars ... the reader will find some of the best attempts of thebest of the last century to translate pain, uncertainty, andabsurdity of violence into an at least somewhat understandableformat."

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