Deep Violence: Military Violence, War Play, and the Social Life of Weapons - Hardcover

Bourke, Prof Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1619024632 ISBN 13: 9781619024632

Verlag: Counterpoint LLC, 2015

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"Deep Violence is well researched and closely examines the subject through various lenses. Great for those interested in warfare, society, history, and peace studies."--Library Journal

"Although she is certainly an idealistic thinker, Bourke gets to some dark places. Her output has included scholarly examinations of murder, fear, rape and pain. Here, she turns her unflinching gaze on the militarization of society...Bourke examines the nature of military violence through a variety of lenses, including economics, language, law, big business and the very nature of our humanity."--Kirkus

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2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the declaration of the First World War, and with it comes a deluge of books, documentaries, feature films and radio programs. We will hear a great deal about the horror of the battlefield. Bourke acknowledges wider truths: war is unending and violence is deeply entrenched in our society. But it doesn't have to be this way. This book equips readers with an understanding of the history, culture and politics of warfare in order to interrogate and resist an increasingly violent world.

Deep Violence investigates the ways that violence and war have become internalized in contemporary human consciousness in everything from the way we speak, to the way our children play with one another, to the way that we ascribe social characteristics to our guns and other weapons. With a remarkable depth of insight, Bourke argues for a radical overhaul of our collective stance towards militarism from one that simply aims to reduce violence against people to one that would eradicate all violence. Her message is judicious and vital: knowledge about weapons and the violence they bring has simply become too important to cast aside or leave to the experts.

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• Verlag: Counterpoint LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1619024632
• ISBN 13: 9781619024632
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356