A Cultural History of Violence in the Modern Age / edited by Joanna Bourke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bourke, Joanna, editor.

Series:

The Cultural Histories Series.

The Cultural Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--History.

Violence.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

The twentieth century heralded in most of the most violent periods in history. State violence was greatly enhanced by new technologies, some of which threatened, global environmental catastrophe, even human extinction. The most horrific and terrifying examples are the Holocaust, nuclear armament, world war, and imperial and colonial conquests. Racist and xenophobic violence permeated the very fabric of society. Public eruptions of aggression were mirrored in profoundly harmful acts of private brutality, usually directed at minoritized and other vulnerable members of communities. This violence was fuelled by sexism, racism, militarism, colonialism, economic injustice, heteronormativity, climate denial, and authoritarian and other despotic ideologies. This volume seeks to explore the complexities of violence in a global, comparative fashion from 1920 to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Through a careful analysis of a vast range of textual and visual sources, as well as methodologies from social and political history, the history of ideas, the social sciences, art history, and literary studies, authors have sought to understand the causes of violence and the meanings given to aggressive practices. They explore how people, communities, nation states, and institutes are constituted through their encounters with armed violence and brutality. They reflect not only on historical shifts in ideas about human responsibility and empathy, but also on resistance to oppression.

Contents:

Introduction, Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 1. Understanding and Defining Violence, Richard Bessel (University of York, UK) 2. Sacred Violence, Margo Kitts (Hawai’i Pacific University, USA) 3. Spaces of Violence, Laurence Ray (University of York, UK) 4. Authority and Violence, Carolyn Strange (Australian National University, Australia) 5. Persecution, Oppression and Subjection, Jonathan Hyslop (Colgate University, USA) 6. Emotion and Violence, Bettina Hitzer and Uffa Jensen (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany ) 7. Visual Representations of Violence, Ana Carden-Coyne (University of Manchester, UK) 8. Literary Representations of Violence, Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 9. Technologies of Violence, Charlie Hall (University of Kent, UK)

ISBN:

9781350148420

OCLC:

1582442589