The Rise of Organised Brutality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Organised Brutality write by Siniša Malešević. This book was released on 2017-04-03. The Rise of Organised Brutality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows organised violence is, in fact, on the rise. Malešević demonstrates that violence is determined by organisational capacity, ideological penetration and micro-solidarity, rather than biological tendencies, meaning that despite pre-modern societies being exposed to spectacles of cruelty and torture, such societies had no organisational means to systematically slaughter millions of individuals. Malešević suggests that violence should not be analysed as just an event or process, but also via changing perceptions of those events and processes, and by linking this to broader social transformations on the inter-polity and inter-group levels he makes his key argument that organised violence has proliferated. Focusing on wars, revolutions, genocides and terrorism, this book shows how modern social organisations utilise ideology and micro-solidarity to mobilise public support for mass scale violence.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Better Angels of Our Nature write by Steven Pinker. This book was released on 2012-09-25. The Better Angels of Our Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
Why Humans Fight
Why Humans Fight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Humans Fight write by Siniša Malešević. This book was released on 2022-10-06. Why Humans Fight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Malešević offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting possible. He argues that fighting is not an individual attribute, but a social phenomenon shaped by one's relationships with other people. Drawing on recent scholarship across a variety of academic disciplines as well as his own interviews with the former combatants, Malešević shows that one's willingness to fight is a contextual phenomenon shaped by specific ideological and organisational logic. This book explores the role biology, psychology, economics, ideology, and coercion play in one's experience of fighting, emphasising the cultural and historical variability of combativeness. By drawing from numerous historical and contemporary examples from all over the world, Malešević demonstrates how social pugnacity is a relational and contextual phenomenon that possesses autonomous features.
Grounded Nationalisms
Grounded Nationalisms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grounded Nationalisms write by Siniša Malešević. This book was released on 2019-02-21. Grounded Nationalisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Malešević shows how the recent escalation of populist nationalism is not an anomaly, but the result of globalisation and nationalism developing together through modern history.
War, Women, and Power
War, Women, and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War, Women, and Power write by Marie E. Berry. This book was released on 2018-03-15. War, Women, and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the victims and spoils of war. Through a close examination of these cases, Marie E. Berry unpacks the puzzling relationship between war and women's political mobilization. Drawing from over 260 interviews with women in both countries, she argues that war can reconfigure gendered power relations by precipitating demographic, economic, and cultural shifts. In the aftermath, however, many of the gains women made were set back. This book offers an entirely new view of women and war and includes concrete suggestions for policy makers, development organizations, and activists supporting women's rights.
