| Discourses of Violence - Violence of Discourses: Critical Interventions, Transgressive Readings, and Post-National Negotiations Contributor(s): Wiemann, Dirk (Author), Stopinska, Agata (Author), Bartels, Anke (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820477621 ISBN-13: 9780820477626 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $42.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 303.601 |
| LCCN: 2005057512 |
| Series: Transpects: Transdisciplinary Perspectives of the Social Sci |
| Physical Information: 229 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The issues of violence and its control, containment or overcoming range prominently in the social sciences. Empirical sociology seeks to derive generalizable explanations from its research into concrete cases of the occurrence or absence of violent conflict, aspiring to transform such explanations into instructions for strategic action. Within cultural studies, discursive and epistemic formations are assumed to be fundamentally and endemically violent. In these perspectives, the quotidian violence that ineluctably inheres in modern discourses manifests itself as, e.g., normalisation, privilege and exclusion, thus sharing a wide range of common objects and objectives with the social sciences. The essays collected in this volume address contemporary conjunctures and discourses of violence in world society from different disciplines ranging from cultural studies, social science, political science and philosophy to history, literary criticism and psychology. |
