Violence

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvToby Miller

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Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus instead on the specificities of history, place, and population as explanations for it. Violence engages these issues in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary form, examining definitions and data, psychology and ideology, gender, nation-states, and the media by covering several foundational questions: how has violence been defined, historically and geographically?has it decreased or increased over time?which regions of the world are the most violent?does violence correlate with economies, political systems, and religions?what is the relationship of gender and violence?what role do the media play? This book is a powerful introduction to the study of violence, ideal for students and researchers across the human sciences, most notably sociology, American and area studies, history, media and communication studies, politics, literature, and cultural studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-10-23
Mått138 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt430 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor144
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367197605

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'With characteristic geographical breadth and linguistic élan, Toby Miller fuses a remarkable range of disciplines and examples to consider the meaning of violence in its many permutations—from rape and domestic violence through to school shootings and the "slow violence" of ecological destruction. Stacked with startling statistics, Violence is both a lively generator of debate and a visceral argument against the destructiveness of patriarchy, religion, capitalism and war.' Jo Littler, City, University of London, UK'Miller's famously capacious mind is working at full throttle in this tour de force book. Violence delivers analyses and insights that will unsettle readers, and stick with them for a long time.' Andrew Ross, New York University, USA'This immensely readable book takes the reader on a trip through some of the many battlegrounds in which various forms of violence are played out: in an array of grisly statistics, in our brains, in deep-rooted misogyny , in nationalist politics, in journalism and in fiction. The journey is often uncomfortable and always thought-provoking: Miller shows how violence can be sporadic but it is also systemic, and Miller weaves storytelling with social science—combining advocacy with analytical dexterity—to ask where it comes from and who benefits from it.' Justin Lewis, Cardiff University, UK