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Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination

Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination

de Vries, Hent
Weber, Samuel

Paperback

PhilosophyCriminologyGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 0804729964
ISBN13: 9780804729963
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 1997
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.17 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

With the collapse of the bipolar system of global rivalry that dominated world politics after the Second World War, and in an age that is seeing the return of ethnic cleansing and identity politics, the question of violence, in all of its multiple ramifications, imposes itself with renewed urgency. Rather than concentrating on the socioeconomic or political backgrounds of these historical changes, the contributors to this volume rethink the concept of violence, both in itself and in relation to the formation and transformation of identities, whether individual or collective, political or cultural, religious or secular. In particular, they subject the notion of self-determination to stringent scrutiny: is it to be understood as a value that excludes violence, in principle if not always in practice? Or is its relation to violence more complex and, perhaps, more sinister?

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