Sinisa Malesevic

Sociology of War and Violence (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511784286
• Artikelnr.: 38201678

Autorenporträt

Sinia Maleevi¿ is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has written and edited many books, chapters and journal articles including Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought (with Mark Haugaard, Cambridge, 2007), Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism (2006) and The Sociology of Ethnicity (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: war, violence and the social
Part I. Collective Violence and Sociological Theory: 1. War and violence in classical social thought
2. The contemporary sociology of organised violence
Part II. War in Time and Space: 3. War and violence before modernity
4. Organized violence and modernity
5. The social geographies of warfare
Part III. Warfare: Ideas and Practices: 6. Nationalism and war
7. War propaganda and solidarity
Part IV. War, Violence and Social Divisions: 8. Social stratification, warfare and violence
9. Gendering of war
Part V. Organised Violence in the 21st Century: 10. New wars?
Conclusion.