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1 online resource (vii, 172 pages) |
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Introduction : How does violence perform? / Carleen Basler, Thomas L. Dumm, and Austin Sarat -- Easy to be hard : conservatism and violence / Corey Robin -- Violence without agency / Ruth A. Miller -- Performing monstrous violence : Aileen Wuornos, murder, abuse, and exploitation / Mary Welek Atwell -- On the uses of dogs : Abu Ghraib and the American soul / Anne Norton -- Passionate performance : 26/11, Mumbai / Veena Das -- Ordinary violence on an extraordinary stage : incidents on the sector border in postwar Berlin / Paul Steege |
| Summary |
From acts of terrorism to war, from arson to capital punishment, from Sadism to torture, performances of violence are all around us. Sometimes they grab headlines and rivet our attention, sometimes they are barely noticed, constituting part of our taken-for-granted world. Yet whether dramatic or hardly noted, violence seems everywhere to be on the rise |
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The essays in this volume explore the relationship between selfhood, agency, and violence, focusing on the psychic life of violence and its expression in the performances of particular individuals. At the same time, they look more closely at the way political contexts and ideologies shape both particular performances of violence and the way they are understood |
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By drawing on the expertise of scholars in a variety of fieldsùanthropology, history, political theory, law, and social thoughtùthis book seeks to expose some of the subterranean cross currents of the cultural lives of violence and, in so doing, to reveal their connections |
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Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science at Amherst College |
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Carleen R. Basler is assistant professor of American studies and sociology at Artiherst College |
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Thomas L. Dumm is professor of political science at Amherst College. --Book Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Violence.
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Violence
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violence.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Violence
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Gewalt.
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Kriminologie.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sarat, Austin.
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Basler, Carleen.
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Dumm, Thomas L.
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| ISBN |
9781613760406 |
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161376040X |
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