Violence: A New Approach

by Michel Wieviorka

Violence is an ever-present phenomenon - obstinately resistant to interpretation. This text offers new tools to understand and analyze violence, presenting a new approach based on the subjectivity of the actor, and on the relation between violence and meaning. The relationship between conflict and violence; the place of victims, and the role of the media all shape new forms of violence. This text is an engaged response to these new forms that presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847875459
• ISBN13: 9781847875457
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"