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- It argues for a cultural, constructed interpretation of violence that not only involves understanding behaviors, but also narratives and discourses of violence that help both define and shape people's attitudes.
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Oct 20, 2022 · Philip Dwyer's (2022) Violence: A Very Short Introduction highlights some of the most horrific acts of violence in the human behavioral repertoire, including uxoricide, infanticide, and genocide, arguing that rates of specific acts of violence have either increased or remained the same throughout human history.
Oct 20, 2022 · In this article, we use an evolutionary perspective to examine intimate partner violence, focusing on men's violence against women.
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...
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Much of the empirical work cited by Dwyer in Violence: A Very Short Introduction focuses on violence from the mid-eighteenth century onward, with some refer-ence to archeological evidence of homicide. Dwyer neglects research on violence among nonhuman animals, perhaps because it does not suit his definition of violence.
Dec 1, 2017 · It examines some meanings of violence and the difficulties involved in defining it, discusses some of the trends that have emerged from the history of violence, and offers some suggestions about how to approach the topic from a different perspective.
Feb 12, 2020 · Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, Professor Philip Dwyer has co-edited the four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence, which is the first collection of its kind to look at violence across different periods of human history and different regions of the world.
Dec 12, 2017 · THEORIZING HISTORIES OF VIOLENCE. PHILIP DWYER, JOY DAMOUSI. , First published: 12 December 2017. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12034. Citations: 1. Read the full text.
