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Author: Siniša Malešević
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-13
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 110709562X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book challenges the prevailing orthodoxy that sees organised violence as in continuous decline, arguing instead that evidence shows that it continues to rise.
Author: Siniša Malešević
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-03
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1108155898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging 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.
Author: John A. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1107067871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHas the emergence of nationalism made warfare more brutal? Does strong nationalist identification increase efficiency in fighting? Is nationalism the cause or the consequence of the breakdown of imperialism? What is the role of victories and defeats in the formation of national identities? The relationship between nationalism and warfare is complex, and it changes depending on which historical period and geographical context is in question. In 'Nationalism and War', some of the world's leading social scientists and historians explore the nature of the connection between the two. Through empirical studies from a broad range of countries, they explore the impact that imperial legacies, education, welfare regimes, bureaucracy, revolutions, popular ideologies, geopolitical change, and state breakdowns have had in the transformation of war and nationalism.
Author: Siniša Malešević
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-02-21
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 110842516X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMalešević shows how the recent escalation of populist nationalism is not an anomaly, but the result of globalisation and nationalism developing together through modern history.
Author: MALESEVIC S.
Publisher: Social Sciences Research Centr
Published: 2002-09-20
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new era where the very notion of collective identity is challenged
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 834
ISBN-13: 0143122010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFaced 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.
Author: Sinisa Malesevic
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2004-05-25
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0761940413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a coherent theoretical framework for the sociological analysis of ethnicity
Author: Marie E. Berry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1108246893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRwanda 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.
Author: Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 1139504444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, new material has come to light on the history of the Soviet era, providing new conceptions of Russia's pre-revolutionary past. The book traces not only the political history of Russia, but also developments in its literature, art and science. Bushkovitch describes well-known cultural figures, such as Chekhov, Tolstoy and Mendeleev, in their institutional and historical contexts. Though the 1917 revolution, the resulting Soviet system and the Cold War were a crucial part of Russian and world history, Bushkovitch presents earlier developments as more than just a prelude to Bolshevik power.
Author: Robert Muchembled
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0745647472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a history of violence in Europe and discusses the theory that violence has actually been in decline since the thirteenth century.
