The legitimization of violence

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The legitimization of violence

edited by David E. Apter

Macmillan Press in association with UNRISD, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Violence is a more and more ubiquitous phenomenon. While a great deal of attention has been paid to certain aspects, terrorism for example, it has not been studied as a political phenomenon in and of itself. In The Legitimization of Violence eight well-known specialists explore various types of violence, from ideological to fundamentalist movements, within a framework of comparative theory.

Table of Contents

  • Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Political Violence in Analytical Perspective
  • D.E.Apter - The Maturation of a Cosmocrat and the Building of a Discourse Community: The Case of Shining Path
  • C.I. Degregori - Politics, Violence, Writing: The Rituals of `Armed Struggle' in Italy
  • D.Moss - Violence as Memory and Desire: Neo-Nazism in Contemporary Germany
  • B.Weaver - Remythologizing Discourses: State and Insurrectionary Violence in Sri Lanka
  • B.Kapferer - The Lebanese Shi'a and Political Violence
  • E.Picard - `Reading' Violence: Ireland
  • P.Arthur - ETA and Basque Political Violence
  • M.Wieviorka - Violent Exchanges: Reflections on Political Violence in Colombia
  • M.Deas - Index

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