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Durkheim and violence
- Title
- Durkheim and violence / [edited by] S. Romi Mukherjee.
- Publication
- West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell ; [Paris] : UNESCO, 2010, c2009.
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- Description
- 200 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this volume forms the foundations for a Durkheimian sociology of violence, exploring the political anthropology of war, the rapport between power and the sacred and various forms of contemporary irrationalism ranging from mass-mediated suicide to torture at Abu Ghraib.
- Series Statement
- [ISSJ ; 185]
- Uniform Title
- International social science journal ; no. 185.
- Subjects
- Note
- "International social science journal."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.
- Contents
- Abstracts -- Introduction. On violence as the negativity of the Durkheimian : between anomie, sacrifice and effervescence / S. Romi Mukherjee -- Durkheim's theory of violence / Mike Gane -- Durkheimism : a model for external constraint without a theory of violence / Jacques Plouin -- Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871 / Susan Stedman Jones -- Durkheimian sociology, biology, and the theory of social conflict / Jean-Christophe Marcel and Dominique Guillo -- "Change only for the benefit of society as a whole" : pragmatism, knowledge and regimes of violence / Ivan Strenski -- Festival, vacation, war : Roger Caillois and the politics of paroxysm / S. Romi Mukherjee -- Durkheim's concept of dérèglement retranslated, Parsons's reading of Durkheim re-parsed : an examination of post-emotional displacement, scapegoating and responsibility at Abu Ghraib / Stjepan G. Mestrovic and Ryan Ashley Caldwell -- "A new kind of fear" : Jean Baudrillard's neo-Durkheimian theory of mass-mediated suicide / Alexander Riley -- From political emergencies and states of exception to exceptional states and emergent politics : a neo-Durkheimian alternative to Agamben / Ronjon Paul Datta.
- Call Number
- JFF 12-1248
- ISBN
- 9781444332759 (pbk.)
- 1444332759 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2011509106
- OCLC
- 428031733
- Title
- Durkheim and violence / [edited by] S. Romi Mukherjee.
- Imprint
- West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell ; [Paris] : UNESCO, 2010, c2009.
- Series
- [ISSJ ; 185]International social science journal ; no. 185.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.
- Added Author
- Mukherjee, S. Romi.Unesco.Wiley-Blackwell (Firm)
- Research Call Number
- JFF 12-1248