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Theorizing Violence

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Theorizing Violence

By Sylvia Walby

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About the book

Violence is increasing on many measures. As criminal justice and security interventions become more punitive, rising inequalities diminish the resources needed for resilience. When all governments proclaim the need to end violence, how can we make sense of this? Sylvia Walby offers new ways to theorize violence, placing it at the centre of society, not the periphery, and rethinking the relationship between violence and security. Arguing for an integrated analysis of internal and external securit...Show more

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9780745647586

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2019

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1

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Theorizing Violence

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Hardcover

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