Reducing Political Violence

Narrative Accounts of Crime and Harm

Rafe McGregor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2026
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4841-8 (ISBN)

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This groundbreaking book reveals how complex stories—ranging from war memoirs and political polemics to propaganda and prize-winning fiction—can shape our understanding of ideologically motivated violence. Drawing on the rich tradition of aesthetic education, it offers an original theory connecting the aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions of narrative. The author demonstrates how literature and documentary writing can unmask techniques of neutralisation, expose fictionality and suggest responses to violence and harm.

Uniting criminology, philosophy and literary studies, this timely and accessible book makes a bold case for why narratives matter in tackling terrorism, war and crimes against humanity.

Rafe McGregor is Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University.

Part I: Aesthetic Critique

1. Introduction

2. Aesthetic Education

3. Narrative Ethics

4. Phenomenological Knowledge

5. Political Ideology

Part II: Narratological Praxis

6. We Could Do Nothing Else: War Crimes

7. Men Who Love Death: Insurgency

8. The Person of the Torturer: Counterinsurgency

9. The Silence of the Night: Crimes Against Humanity

10. Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.1.2026
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5292-4841-8 / 1529248418
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-4841-8 / 9781529248418
Zustand	Neuware