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The Meanings of Violence

Author : Elizabeth A Stanko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134418221
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Meanings of Violence written by Elizabeth A Stanko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The media often makes sense of violence in terms of 'randomness' and 'evil'. But the reality, as the contributors to The Meanings of Violence demonstrate, is far more complex. Drawing on the diverse subject matter of the ESRC's Violence Research Programme - from interviews with killers to discussions with children in residential facilities - this volume locates the meaning of violence within social contexts, identities and social divisions. It aims to break open our way of speaking about violence and demonstrate the value in exploring the multiple, contradictory and complex meanings of violence in society. The wide range of topics include: *Prostitute and client violence *Violence amongst young people at school and on the streets *Violence in bars and nightclubs *Violence in prison *Racist and homophobic violence This book will be fascinating reading for students of criminology and academics working in the field of violent crime.

The Meanings of Violence

Author : Elizabeth A Stanko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134418213
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Meanings of Violence written by Elizabeth A Stanko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The media often makes sense of violence in terms of 'randomness' and 'evil'. But the reality, as the contributors to The Meanings of Violence demonstrate, is far more complex. Drawing on the diverse subject matter of the ESRC's Violence Research Programme - from interviews with killers to discussions with children in residential facilities - this volume locates the meaning of violence within social contexts, identities and social divisions. It aims to break open our way of speaking about violence and demonstrate the value in exploring the multiple, contradictory and complex meanings of violence in society. The wide range of topics include: *Prostitute and client violence *Violence amongst young people at school and on the streets *Violence in bars and nightclubs *Violence in prison *Racist and homophobic violence This book will be fascinating reading for students of criminology and academics working in the field of violent crime.

The Meanings of Violence

Author : Gavin Rae
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351336517
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Meanings of Violence written by Gavin Rae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence has long been noted to be a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Traditionally, however, philosophical discussions have tended to approach it through the lens of warfare and/or limit it to physical forms. This changed in the twentieth century as the nature and meaning of ‘violence’ itself became a conceptual problem. Guided by the contention that Walter Benjamin’s famous 1921 ‘Critique of Violence’ essay inaugurated this turn to an explicit questioning of violence, this collection brings together an international array of scholars to engage with how subsequent thinkers—Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin, Butler, Castoriadis, Derrida, Fanon, Gramsci, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Schmitt—grappled with the meaning and place of violence. The aim is not to reduce these multiple responses to a singular one, but to highlight the heterogeneous ways in which the concept has been inquired into and the manifold meanings of it that have resulted. To this end, each chapter focuses on a different approach or thinker within twentieth and twenty-first century European philosophy, with many of them tackling the issue through the mediation of other topics and disciplines, including biopolitics, epistemology, ethics, culture, law, politics, and psychoanalysis. As such, the volume will be an invaluable resource for those interested in Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, History of Ideas, Philosophy, Politics, Political Theory, Psychology, and Sociology.

Meanings of Violence

Author : Jon Abbink
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323994
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Meanings of Violence written by Jon Abbink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human society. And yet violent action - warfare, penalties, insults, feuding, assault, murder, rape, suicide, sports - remains in all its complexity one of the least understood fields of human social life.The book's contributors identify the symbolic and ritualized aspects of violence, and suggest ways of 'reading' violence as it occurs in the world, whether as violent duelling and age-group violence in Southern Ethiopia, bullfighting in Iberia, cattle rustling in Kenya, guerrilla and militia wars in Colombia, or public executions in China.These case studies suggest that 'violence' is not a simple, universal urge, but is contingent and context-dependent, shaped by social relations of power, force and dominance. To be the victim of violence is a humiliating and frightening experience. But the many ambiguities that occur in the use of violence must be considered, to understand why peace seems only to exist as a contrast to the violation of peace.

Violence and Meaning

Author : Lode Lauwaert
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030271730
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Violence and Meaning written by Lode Lauwaert and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the problem of violence from the vantage point of meaning. Taking up the ambiguity of the word ‘meaning’, the chapters analyse the manner in which violence affects and in some cases constitutes the meaningful structure of our lifeworld, on individual, social, religious and conceptual levels. The relationship between violence and meaning is multifaceted, and is thus investigated from a variety of different perspectives within the continental tradition of philosophy, including phenomenology, post-structuralism, critical theory and psychoanalysis. Divided into four parts, the volume explores diverging meanings of the concept of violence, as well as transcendent or religious violence- a form of violence that takes place between humanity and the divine world. Going on to investigate instances of immanent and secular violence, which occur at the level of the group, community or society, the book concludes with an exploration of violence and meaning on the individual level: violence at the level of the self, or between particular persons. With its focus on the manifold of relations between violence and meaning, as well as its four part focus on conceptual, transcendent, immanent and individual violence, the book is both multi-directional and multi-layered.

Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America

Author : Maria Helena Rueda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230120032
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America written by Maria Helena Rueda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, it offers an array of perspectives that contribute to ongoing debates in the study of violence in the region.

Media, Culture, and the Meanings of Hockey

Author : Stacy L. Lorenz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351795902
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Media, Culture, and the Meanings of Hockey written by Stacy L. Lorenz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the cultural meanings of high-level amateur and professional hockey in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the author analyzes English Canadian media narratives of Stanley Cup "challenge" games and championship series between 1896 and 1907. Newspaper coverage and telegraph reconstructions of Stanley Cup challenges contributed significantly to the growth of a mediated Canadian "hockey world" – and a broader "world of sport" – during this time period. By 1903, Stanley Cup hockey games had become national Canadian events, followed by audiences across the country. Hockey also played an important role in the construction of gender and class identities, and in debates about amateurism, professionalism, and community representation in sport. The author also explores the connections between violence and masculinity in Canadian hockey by examining media descriptions of "brutal" and "strenuous" play. He analyzes how notions of civic identity changed as hockey clubs evolved from amateur teams represented by players who were members of their home community to professional aggregations that included paid imports from outside the town. As a result, this volume addresses important gaps in the study of sport history and the analysis of sport and popular culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour

Author : Chris Steed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351010395
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour written by Chris Steed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour is an innovative conceptualisation of how the quest for a high self-worth works as a psychosocial dynamic, presenting the idea that feelings of impotence and low self-esteem induce a powerful impetus on negative human action. This book gives an account of what it means to base a whole psychological perspective on high value, which has been an understudied aspect of human action. Employing an ethnographical approach, the book uses client observations and social research to promote original solutions in an empathetic and engaging manner for psychological support services aiding isolated individuals. It considers the concept of a valuable self and examines the negative effects within the personality which can be generated when this drive for a valuable self is blocked through human devaluation or violence. The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour will appeal to academics and post-graduate students in the fields of psychology and psychotherapy, psychotherapists with specialist interests in loneliness and self-worth, and sociologists concerned with the psychology of the self.

Domestic Violence

Author : Michael D. A. Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Violence written by Michael D. A. Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic violence - domestic hooliganism it has been called - is one of the cancers of our age. This book covers issues ranging from criminal and civil law responses and the value of mediation, to the impact on children, and to the cultural context.

The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers

Author : Stephen Leach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315385929
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers written by Stephen Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life. This edited collection includes thirty-five chapters which each focus on a major philosophical figure, from Confucius to Rorty, and that imaginatively engage with the topic from their perspective. This volume also contains a Postscript on the historical origins and original significance of the phrase ‘the meaning of life’. Written by leading experts in the field, such as A.C. Grayling, Thaddeus Metz and John Cottingham, this unique and engaging book explores the relevance of the history of philosophy to contemporary debates. It will prove essential reading for students and scholars studying the history of philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, metaphysics or comparative philosophy.

The Meanings We Choose

Author : Charles H. Cosgrove
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056706896X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Meanings We Choose written by Charles H. Cosgrove and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meanings We Choose is an engagement with responsible bible reading-Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament texts-for the past as well as for the present and future. Its stated perspectives are multi-denominational Christian but the implications of such readings go far beyond a specific confessional framework. In the present political climate the aware, responsible "personal" is meaningful for any community, confessedly religious as well as otherwise. While the articles collected in this volume, broadly speaking, can and perhaps should be compartmentalized as ideological criticism, their significance for reading ideologies "different" from their own is more than considerable.

The Meanings of Macho

Author : Matthew C. Gutmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520202368
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Meanings of Macho written by Matthew C. Gutmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of machismo, the author overturns many stereotypes of male culture. He offers a look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, socialize among themselves and talk about sex in their daily lives.

Violence in Factual Television

Author : Andrea Millwood Hargrave
Publisher : John Libbey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in Factual Television written by Andrea Millwood Hargrave and published by John Libbey. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the fourth in an annual series of Annual Reviews. The Broadcasting Standards Council has conducted these reviews since its creation in 1988. Each review deals with a different aspect of the principal concerns in the Council's remit - violence, sexual conduct, and matters of taste and decency.

The Meaning of Sociology

Author : Joel M. Charon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Sociology written by Joel M. Charon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers an introduction to sociology. It gives students an understanding of complex sociological concepts, as well as an understanding of how sociologists view society and human beings.

Violence and Belonging

Author : Are J. Knudsen
Publisher : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Violence and Belonging written by Are J. Knudsen and published by Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet--apart from political violence--most studies approach violence from the perspective of honour. By contrast, this important study examines the meanings of lethal conflict in a little-studied tribal society in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and offers a new perspective on its causes. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant. Being grounded in local ethnography enables the book to shed light on the complexities of violence, not only at the structural or systemic level, but also as experienced by the men involved in lethal conflict. In this way, the book provides a subjective and experiential approach to violence that is applicable beyond the field locality and relevant for advancing the study of violence in the Middle East and South Asia. The book is the first ethnographic study of this region since renowned anthropologist Fredrik Barth's pioneering study in 1954.

Criminal Dangerousness and the Risk of Violence

Author : Alfred B. Heilbrun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Dangerousness and the Risk of Violence written by Alfred B. Heilbrun and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new theoretical model of criminal dangerousness with special reference to the prediction of violence. The model proposes that criminal violence evolves from the combination of deviant social values that limit the constraints upon lawful behavior (antisociality), and cognitive deficits that interfere with effective planning of crimes and with the conduct of criminal transactions with the victims (impaired cognition). A program of research is used to consider the validity of the criminal dangerousness model as well as empirical tests of the theory's assumptions and the issues raised. Extensive validity evidence is presented. Assumptions tested include further refinement of specific cognitive deficits, and issues addressed involve the relevance of race, gender, and mental disorder to the dangerousness model.

Intimate Partner Violence

Author : Elizabeth A. Mansley
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Partner Violence written by Elizabeth A. Mansley and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elizabeth Mansley examines how race and class impact the construction of masculinity as demonstrated through men's accounts of intimate partner violence. Using an Ecological Nested Model, she examines race and class differences in the role that institutions and culture play in promoting violence against women. These differences support the call for culturally sensitive batterer treatment programs that are not just reflective of race, but of class as well. Knowledge of these differences would allow treatment providers to tailor their treatment plans to account for such diversity and to develop culturally sensitive treatment that will be more effective." --Book Jacket.