Why Humans Fight - Couverture souple

Malešević, Siniša

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009162810 ISBN 13 : 9781009162814

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Malešević offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting possible. He argues that fighting is not an individual attribute, but a social phenomenon shaped by one's relationships with other people. Drawing on recent scholarship across a variety of academic disciplines as well as his own interviews with the former combatants, Malešević shows that one's willingness to fight is a contextual phenomenon shaped by specific ideological and organisational logic. This book explores the role biology, psychology, economics, ideology, and coercion play in one's experience of fighting, emphasising the cultural and historical variability of combativeness. By drawing from numerous historical and contemporary examples from all over the world, Malešević demonstrates how social pugnacity is a relational and contextual phenomenon that possesses autonomous features.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Siniša Malešević is Professor of Sociology at the University College, Dublin, and Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris. His recent books include Contemporary Sociological Theory (with S. Loyal, 2021), Grounded Nationalisms (2019), The Rise of Organised Brutality (2017) and Nation-States and Nationalisms (2013). His work has been translated into 13 languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009162810
• ISBN 13: 9781009162814
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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