Violence in Capitalism: Devaluing Life in an Age of Responsibility

by James A. Tyner

Book Overview

What, James Tyner asks, separates the murder of a runaway youth from the death of a father denied a bone-marrow transplant because of budget cuts? Moving beyond our culture's reductive emphasis on whether a given act of violence is intentional--and may therefore count as deliberate murder--Tyner interrogates the broader forces that produce violence. His uniquely geographic perspective considers where violence takes place (the workplace, the home,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149620641X
• ISBN13: 9781496206411
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"