Violence: A Very Short Introduction By: Philip Dwyer [Audiobook]

Author: Philip Dwyer
Narrated by: Gary Paul Williams

Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures and societies, across time, share in common. It has defined not only the ways in which individuals relate to each other, but also how collective entities and states have interacted with each other over the millennia. All societies are violent and all individuals have the capacity for violence. However, not all societies and not all individuals are equally violent, and nor does violence exist with the same intensity across cultures.

This Very Short Introduction examines the more visible, physical acts of violence-interpersonal, gendered, collective, religious, sexual, criminal, and political-in the modern world. It explores how violence in the pre-modern world was different from the modern world, and what is significant about those differences. It also discusses what violence is by examining understandings of the ideas, values, and cultural practices embedded in an act of violence, and considering acts of violence as the outcome of a process dependent on the cultural context in which they take place. Along the way Dwyer considers some core questions, asking whether violence is always “bad”, and if there are any limits to human violence? And, are we becoming more or less violent?

17M	01. Thinking About Violence.mp3
21M	02. How Violent Was The Past.mp3
17M	03. Intimate And Gendered Violence.mp3
14M	04. Interpersonal Violence.mp3
17M	05. The Sacred And The Secular.mp3
17M	06. Collective Violence.mp3
21M	07. Violence And The State.mp3
6.3M	08. The Changing Nature Of Violence.mp3
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