Author: Siniša Malešević
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110709562X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book challenges the prevailing orthodoxy that sees organised violence as in continuous decline, arguing instead that evidence shows that it continues to rise.
The Rise of Organised Brutality
Author: Siniša Malešević
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110709562X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book challenges the prevailing orthodoxy that sees organised violence as in continuous decline, arguing instead that evidence shows that it continues to rise.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110709562X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book challenges the prevailing orthodoxy that sees organised violence as in continuous decline, arguing instead that evidence shows that it continues to rise.
The Rise of Organised Brutality
Author: Siniša Malešević
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108155898
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows organised violence is, in fact, on the rise. Malešević demonstrates that violence is determined by organisational capacity, ideological penetration and micro-solidarity, rather than biological tendencies, meaning that despite pre-modern societies being exposed to spectacles of cruelty and torture, such societies had no organisational means to systematically slaughter millions of individuals. Malešević suggests that violence should not be analysed as just an event or process, but also via changing perceptions of those events and processes, and by linking this to broader social transformations on the inter-polity and inter-group levels he makes his key argument that organised violence has proliferated. Focusing on wars, revolutions, genocides and terrorism, this book shows how modern social organisations utilise ideology and micro-solidarity to mobilise public support for mass scale violence.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108155898
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows organised violence is, in fact, on the rise. Malešević demonstrates that violence is determined by organisational capacity, ideological penetration and micro-solidarity, rather than biological tendencies, meaning that despite pre-modern societies being exposed to spectacles of cruelty and torture, such societies had no organisational means to systematically slaughter millions of individuals. Malešević suggests that violence should not be analysed as just an event or process, but also via changing perceptions of those events and processes, and by linking this to broader social transformations on the inter-polity and inter-group levels he makes his key argument that organised violence has proliferated. Focusing on wars, revolutions, genocides and terrorism, this book shows how modern social organisations utilise ideology and micro-solidarity to mobilise public support for mass scale violence.
Grounded Nationalisms
Author: Siniša Malešević
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842516X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Malešević shows how the recent escalation of populist nationalism is not an anomaly, but the result of globalisation and nationalism developing together through modern history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842516X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Malešević shows how the recent escalation of populist nationalism is not an anomaly, but the result of globalisation and nationalism developing together through modern history.
The Sociology of War and Violence
Author: Siniša Malešević
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521731690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This new book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the historical and contemporary impact that coercion and warfare have on the transformation of social life, and vice versa. Although war and violence were decisive components in the formation of modernity most analyses tend to shy away from the sociological study of the gory origins of contemporary social life. In contrast, this book brings the study of organised violence to the fore by providing a wide-ranging sociological analysis that links classical and contemporary theories with specific historical and geographical contexts. Topics covered include violence before modernity, warfare in the modern age, nationalism and war, war propaganda, battlefield solidarity, war and social stratification, gender and organised violence, and the new wars debate.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521731690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This new book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the historical and contemporary impact that coercion and warfare have on the transformation of social life, and vice versa. Although war and violence were decisive components in the formation of modernity most analyses tend to shy away from the sociological study of the gory origins of contemporary social life. In contrast, this book brings the study of organised violence to the fore by providing a wide-ranging sociological analysis that links classical and contemporary theories with specific historical and geographical contexts. Topics covered include violence before modernity, warfare in the modern age, nationalism and war, war propaganda, battlefield solidarity, war and social stratification, gender and organised violence, and the new wars debate.
The Sociology of Ethnicity
Author: Sinisa Malesevic
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761940413
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Provides a coherent theoretical framework for the sociological analysis of ethnicity
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761940413
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Provides a coherent theoretical framework for the sociological analysis of ethnicity
A History of Violence
Author: Robert Muchembled
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745647472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Presents a history of violence in Europe and discusses the theory that violence has actually been in decline since the thirteenth century.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745647472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Presents a history of violence in Europe and discusses the theory that violence has actually been in decline since the thirteenth century.
Identity as Ideology
Author: S. Malesevic
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230625649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over whether identities exist or not. In this provocative study, Sinisa Malesevic interrogates the unproblematic use of concepts of identity, and in particular national or ethnic identity.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230625649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over whether identities exist or not. In this provocative study, Sinisa Malesevic interrogates the unproblematic use of concepts of identity, and in particular national or ethnic identity.
Making Sense Of Collectivity
Author: MALESEVIC S.
Publisher: Social Sciences Research Centr
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This is a new era where the very notion of collective identity is challenged
Publisher: Social Sciences Research Centr
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This is a new era where the very notion of collective identity is challenged
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143122010
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143122010
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
War, Women, and Power
Author: Marie E. Berry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108246893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the victims and spoils of war. Through a close examination of these cases, Marie E. Berry unpacks the puzzling relationship between war and women's political mobilization. Drawing from over 260 interviews with women in both countries, she argues that war can reconfigure gendered power relations by precipitating demographic, economic, and cultural shifts. In the aftermath, however, many of the gains women made were set back. This book offers an entirely new view of women and war and includes concrete suggestions for policy makers, development organizations, and activists supporting women's rights.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108246893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the victims and spoils of war. Through a close examination of these cases, Marie E. Berry unpacks the puzzling relationship between war and women's political mobilization. Drawing from over 260 interviews with women in both countries, she argues that war can reconfigure gendered power relations by precipitating demographic, economic, and cultural shifts. In the aftermath, however, many of the gains women made were set back. This book offers an entirely new view of women and war and includes concrete suggestions for policy makers, development organizations, and activists supporting women's rights.