{"product_id":"violence-situation-speciality-politics-and-storytelling","title":"Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by social researchers and thinkers. It does not provide a final answer to the question of what violence is or how it should be explained (or prevented), and instead offers a variety of useful ways of thinking about and theorising the phenomenon, mainly from a sociological standpoint. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt outlines four ways of understanding violence:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Violence as situation: the tension that exists between category-driven and situational explanations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Violence as speciality: the study of particularly violent actors, and how they may be understood by reference to childhood histories, technologies, institutions, culture, class, and gender. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Violence as politics: political violence and violent politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Violence as storytelling: representations of violence from a narrative perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcluding with reflections on possible convergences between the four approaches and new directions for research, this book offers a unique and experimental approach to discussing and reconstructing the concept of violence. It is essential reading for criminologists, sociologists, and philosophers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49780850917720,"sku":"9781032204482","price":50.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032204482.jpg?v=1769558441","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/violence-situation-speciality-politics-and-storytelling","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}