Sinisa Malesevic

Why Humans Fight (eBook, PDF)

The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

MaleSevic offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: ''Why do humans fight?'', by emphasising the centrality of social contexts that make fighting possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009178624
• Artikelnr.: 70913731

Autorenporträt

Sinia Maleevi¿ is Professor of Sociology at the University College, Dublin, and Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris. His recent books include Contemporary Sociological Theory (with S. Loyal, 2021), Grounded Nationalisms (2019), The Rise of Organised Brutality (2017) and Nation-States and Nationalisms (2013). His work has been translated into 13 languages.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The social anatomy of fighting
1. The body and the mind: Biology and the close-range violence
2. Profiting from fighting: The economics of micro-level violence
3. Clashing beliefs: The ideological fighters
4. Enforcing fighting: Coercing humans into violence
5. Fighting for others: The networks of micro-bonds
6. Avoiding violence: The structural context of non-fighting
7. Social pugnacity in the combat zone
8. Organisational power and social cohesion on the battlefield
9. Emotions and the close-range fighting
10. Killing in war: The emotional dynamics of pugnacity
11. The future of close-range violence
Conclusion.