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A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality, with every city centre a potential shooting gallery; every metro system a potential bomb alley.
Killing Strangers explores how acts of political violence have changed over time, becoming 'unchained' from inter-personal relationships.
List of contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE: The State
- 1: The Modern State and The Society of Hyper-Order to 1939
- 2: The Modern State and The Society of Hyper-Order from 1939
- 3: The Resources of Civilization
- PART TWO: Society and Technology
- 4: The Hazards of Social Rank
- 5: The Means of Destruction
- 6: Violence, Sabotage, and the Mobile Society
- Conclusion
About the author
Tim Wilson is an expert on the history of political violence: and why it takes the forms that it does. He became interested in this field whilst running a youth club in North Belfast in the late 1990s. Since 2016 he has served as Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St Andrews: the oldest research centre of its kind in Europe. He is a frequent commentator on both national and international media.
Summary
A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality, with every city centre a potential shooting gallery; every metro system a potential bomb alley. Killing Strangers explores how acts of political violence have changed over time, becoming 'unchained' from inter-personal relationships.
Additional text
Wilson provides an excellent and historically rich analysis which very effectively and elegantly brings together a variety of case studies and examples from different historical periods.
