1st Edition
Violence Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling
By David Wästerfors
Copyright 2023
136 Pages
1 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
136 Pages
1 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
This 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.... Read more
Imagine… 1.Violence as situation 2.Violence as specialty 3.Violence as politics 4.Violence as storytelling 5.Scraps and side-tracks
Biography
David Wästerfors is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden.
"Brimming with novel insights, Wästerfors lays out a vast array of new paths for research as he masterfully reviews a generation of research on violence".
Jack Katz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCLA
