Durkheim and violence
By: [edited by] S. Romi Mukherjee
Contributors: Unesco; Wiley-Blackwell (Firm)
Series: [ISSJ -- 185]; International social science journal -- no. 185.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; UNESCO
Published: 2010
Place of publication: West Sussex, U.K; [Paris]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781444332759
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Gewalt; Theorie; Violence; Durkheimian school of sociology
Description: 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.
Notes: "International social science journal."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: Abstracts -- Introduction.; title: On violence as the negativity of the Durkheimian : between anomie, sacrifice and effervescence  -- S. Romi Mukherjee; title: Durkheim's theory of violence  -- Mike Gane; title: Durkheimism : a model for external constraint without a theory of violence  -- Jacques Plouin; title: Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871  -- Susan Stedman Jones; title: Durkheimian sociology, biology, and the theory of social conflict  -- Jean-Christophe Marcel and Dominique Guillo; title: "Change only for the benefit of society as a whole" : pragmatism, knowledge and regimes of violence  -- Ivan Strenski; title: Festival, vacation, war : Roger Caillois and the politics of paroxysm  -- S. Romi Mukherjee; title: 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; title: "A new kind of fear" : Jean Baudrillard's neo-Durkheimian theory of mass-mediated suicide  -- Alexander Riley; title: From political emergencies and states of exception to exceptional states and emergent politics : a neo-Durkheimian alternative to Agamben -- Ronjon Paul Datta.