Sociology of War and Violence

Informationen zum Autor Siniša Maleševic 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). Klappentext The only textbook to provide a wide-ranging analysis of war and organised violence from a sociological perspective. Zusammenfassung This textbook demonstrates how to use sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. There is a particular focus on the historical and contemporary impact of coercion and warfare on the transformation of social life! and vice versa. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sinisa Maleeevic, Sinisa Malesevic, Sinisa (National University of Ireland Malesevic, Siniša Malešević
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521731690
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73169-0
• No. of pages: 374
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, International Relations, Warfare and defence, Violence and abuse in society, Armed Conflict, Theory of warfare & military science