Mapping Geographies of Violence

edited by Heather A. Kitchin Dahringer and James J. Brittain  

Mapping Geographies of Violence presents readers with a larger understanding and analysis of how violence, far from just an expression of individuals or groups, is rooted in social constructs like class, patriarchy and racism.

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  • October 2017
  • ISBN: 9781552669747
  • 240 pages
  • $45.00
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  • PDF January 2021
  • ISBN: 9781773634746
  • $44.99
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About the book

The contributors to Mapping Geographies of Violence explore the multi-layered meaning of violence and the various ways it occupies our daily lives, be they overt, institutional, structural or covert. With an eye towards social justice, each chapter offers a discrete definition of violence and provides readers with a range of theoretical orientations, from social psychology, symbolic interactionism and Marxism to discourse analysis. From these perspectives, several examples of violence are explored: anti-feminism, police raids, gendered violence, mental illness, sex work and poverty.

Mapping Geographies of Violence presents readers with a larger understanding and analysis of how violence, far from just an expression of individuals or groups, is rooted in social constructs like class, patriarchy and racism.

Sociology

Authors

Heather A. Kitchin Dahringer

Heather A. Kitchin Dahringer is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Acadia University.

James J. Brittain

James J. Brittain is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and a faculty member of the Social and Political Thought graduate program at Acadia University.

Contents

  • Introduction (Heather A. Kitchin Dahringer)
  • Theorizing Violence Through an Approach toward Power (James J. Brittain)
  • Making Violence Remarkable: Reconsiderations of Everyday Gender Violences (Diane Naugler)
  • ‘Just one more I swear’: Interrogating Covert Violence, Discursive Coercion, and Power Structures within‘Addiction’ Treatment Modalities (Heather A. Kitchin Dahringer)
  • A Violent Escape: Scripting Intra-Class Conflict and (fortifying) Contemporary Capitalist Endurance (James J. Brittain)
  • Violence Against Sex Workers: Not Part of the Job (Leslie Ann Jeffrey) • Knowing Crime and Deviance: Mapping and Limits to Certainty (Chris McCormick)
  • Violence on the Land: Examining Police Raids of Indigenous Land Protectors in Imperial Canada (Anthony Gracey)
  • Symbolic and Discursive Violence in Media Representations of Aboriginal Missing and Murdered Women (Yasmin Jiwani)
  • Global Structures of Oppression: Capitalism, Canada, and Structural Violence (Garry Leech)
  • The 7 Ps of Men’s Violence (with a new afterword) (Michael Kaufman)
  • Mapping Geographies of Violence
  • References
  • Index

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