Theorizing Violence

Sylvia Walby (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2027
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-4759-3 (ISBN)

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Violence is increasing on many measures. As criminal justice and security interventions become more punitive, rising inequalities diminish the resources needed for resilience. When all governments proclaim the need to end violence, how can we make sense of this?

Sylvia Walby offers new ways to theorize violence, placing it at the centre of society, not the periphery, and rethinking the relationship between violence and security. Arguing for an integrated analysis of internal and external security within a theory of society, she shows how neoliberal transformations have led to the growth of violence. Understanding these changes requires gendering theories of the state, the economy and civil society. With securitization growing while welfare and the regulation of the economy shrink, Walby uses complexity science to investigate the contradictions in state responses.

Crucially, this book offers a way forward, drawing on inspirational practices and cutting-edge social theory, to better understand violence and the causes of its variations.

Sylvia Walby is Professor of Sociology and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research at Lancaster University

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2020
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-4759-6 / 0745647596
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-4759-3 / 9780745647593
Zustand	Neuware