Violence Of Abstraction
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The Violence Of Abstraction
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Author : Derek Sayer
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1987
The Violence Of Abstraction written by Derek Sayer and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Communism and society categories.
Violence Of Abstraction
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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Abstraction Beyond A Law Of Thought
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Author : Chris Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Abstraction Beyond A Law Of Thought written by Chris Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Given that one of the defining elements of capitalist society is the ubiquity of forms of abstraction through which social relations are mediated, it is not surprising that a generalised 'reproach of abstraction' has taken on a critical orthodoxy within social theory and the humanities. Many of these attacks against a pervasive culture of abstraction have an obvious resonance with longstanding critiques of the abstractions inherent in law. This article explores the critique of the power of abstraction that is a central theme in Henri Lefebvre's depiction of the 'abstract space' of contemporary capitalism. In doing so, it will be emphasised that Lefebvre's work is not primarily concerned with the rejection of abstraction per se, but with understanding the relationships between dominant forms of abstraction and concrete social practices. Of particular interest here is Lefebvre's reformulation of the concept of concrete abstraction which extends his work beyond a polemical dismissal of the violence of abstraction into broader theoretical debates about the role of the abstract in the reproduction of social relations. Building on this aspect of Lefebvre's work, I will argue that the concept of concrete abstraction can provide a means of understanding the relationships between the concrete and the abstract in existing juridico-political relations.
Violence In Capitalism
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Author : James A. Tyner
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2016
Violence In Capitalism written by James A. Tyner and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Political Science categories.
What, James Tyner asks, separates the murder of a runaway youth from the death of a father denied a bone-marrow transplant because of budget cuts? Moving beyond our culture's reductive emphasis on whether a given act of violence is intentional--and may therefore count as deliberate murder--Tyner interrogates the broader forces that produce violence. His uniquely geographic perspective considers where violence takes place (the workplace, the home, the prison, etc.) and how violence moves across space. Approaching violence as one of several methods of constituting space, Tyner examines everything from the way police departments map crime to the emergence of "environmental criminology." Throughout, he casts violence in broad terms--as a realm that is not limited to criminal acts and one that can be divided into the categories of "killing" and "letting die." His framework extends the study of biopolitics by examining the state's role in producing (or failing to produce) a healthy citizenry. It also adds to the new literature on capitalism by articulating the interconnections between violence and political economy. Simply put, capitalism (especially its neoliberal and neoconservative variants) is structured around a valuation of life that fosters a particular abstraction of violence and crime.
Occult Economies And The Violence Of Abstraction
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Author : John L. Comaroff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Occult Economies And The Violence Of Abstraction written by John L. Comaroff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Informal sector (Economics) categories.
The Max Gluckman memorial lecture, 1998.
The Violence Of Abstraction
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Author : Jenny Epstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Violence Of Abstraction written by Jenny Epstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Electronic dissertations categories.
The impetus for this project grew out of my experience working as a pharmacist in a federally-funded ambulatory-care clinic In Tacoma, WA. Many people seen at the clinic struggled with type-2 diabetes (T2DM) and over time, I began to see this condition not only as a biological disorder, but also as a complex symptom of both macro-level social history and micro-level daily activities. I also began to see how the emphasis on medical abstraction in the form of measuring, monitoring and scheduling into daily routines, while necessary to control T2DM, created a gap between lived experience and the broader social contexts that gave rise to the condition. I have used the theoretical work of Henri Lefebvre to build on my clinical background and on previous anthropological examinations of T2DM, to examine the body as social space and, through this perspective, show how the political, economic and cultural forces involved in the production of social space also shape relationships between body and self. In other words, how the spatiotemporal world we imagine internally corresponds to the world we face outwardly. Interviewees for diabetes life-histories were recruited from ambulatory-care clinics serving lower-income Tacoma residents, and reflected the city residents most affected by T2DM. Through analysis of 58 histories, three patterns emerged, showing the different ways individuals grappled with scientific abstraction in constructing T2DM self-care practices. For many people, bodily self-care contradicted the high value given to employment and pushing one's body as a strategy to maintain social autonomy. More significantly, medical instructions to make rational decisions based on scientifically defined facts only increased stress and created further alienation between body and self. However, the success of those individuals able to maintain long-term control of diabetes, did not translate into resistance to medical abstraction. Rather, it was the ability to attach meaning to mechanical, uniform practices that de-alienated body and self. Instead of a well-delineated dichotomy between lived experience and medical abstraction, sustained T2DM self-care emerged through an individual's creative capacity to disable the neutrality of biological abstraction and give meaning to medical facts, reflecting the key importance of creativity as a life-skill. The findings of this project show how examining spatiotemporal structures provide medical anthropological research a unique methodology to connect social context to practices of self-care. Rather than being a neutral backdrop for things that happen, conceiving of bodies as social space illuminates forms of power that shape how subjectivities change (or not) over time.
The Idea Of Violence
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Author : Estela Schindel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Idea Of Violence written by Estela Schindel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Social Science categories.
What constitutes violence? Such a deceptively simple question belies a much longer and contested history over the idea, meaning, and actualization of violence. Our initial supposition is that violence is an abstraction, a constantly changing 'idea' that impacts the ways in which it manifests itself and how people and societies relate to it. Violence thus becomes an intrinsic factor--negative, positive, ritual, institutional, revolutionary--of sociological processes and as such its practices and interpretations affect and are affected by culture. The contributions in this volume address directly the philosophic foundations of violence within different historical and geographical contexts. Individually and collectively, contributors investigate how varied contexts generate specific concepts of violence and, concurrently, how different philosophies and ideologies shape the expression, perception, and representation of violence.
Spatial Abstraction Legal Violence And The Promise Of Appropriation
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Author : Chris Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Spatial Abstraction Legal Violence And The Promise Of Appropriation written by Chris Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Explorations of the social, embodied and imaginary dimensions of space have been a consistent feature of the successive waves of theoretical innovation that have accompanied the spatial, relational and material 'turns' in the humanities and social sciences during recent decades. An important background influence for much of this scholarship has been Henri Lefebvre's account of the abstract constellation of spatial tendencies that characterises contemporary capitalism. This chapter will contribute to the reception of Lefebvre's work within critical legal theory by identifying the importance of a relational theory of space in framing his account of the inherently political character of the production of space. In doing so, law will be identified as playing a crucial role in the reproduction of forms of spatial abstraction and their associated modes of violence and domination. As an example of a form of struggle which resists law's concretisation of abstraction, Lefebvre's concept of the right to the city can be understood as operating not only at the level of political contestation, but as also constituting an aesthetic demand for the appropriation of space. This account will prompt a consideration of the implications of Lefebvre's account for an understanding of the concept of 'spatial justice' as a rupture of the imaginary boundary between the possible and the impossible, which reveals prospects for the juridical reassembly of spatial relationships amongst bodies inhabiting and appropriating their own spaces. It will be argued that Lefebvre's relational theory of space provides a methodological lens through which we may imagine how, what is currently legally and politically impossible, may become a possibility.
The Poetics Of Crime
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Author : Professor Michael Hviid Jacobsen
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-10-28
The Poetics Of Crime written by Professor Michael Hviid Jacobsen and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Social Science categories.
The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a discipline concerned with refined statistical analyses, survey methods and quantitative measurements, this book shows that criminology can - and indeed should - move beyond such confines to seek sources of insight, information and knowledge in the unexplored corners of poetically and creatively inspired approaches and methodologies. With chapters illustrating the ways in which criminologists and other researchers or practitioners working on crime-related questions can find inspiration in a variety of unconventional materials, writing styles and analytical strategies, The Poetics of Crime offers studies of police photography, classic and contemporary literature, silver screen movies, performative dance enactments and media images. As such, this volume opens up the field of criminological research to alternative and novel sources of knowledge about crime, its perpetrators and victims, authorities, motives and justice. It will therefore appeal not only to sociologists, social theorists and criminologists, but to scholars across disciplines with interests in crime, deviance and innovative approaches to social research.
Abstraction Economy
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Author : Eva Maria Stadler
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-04-22
Abstraction Economy written by Eva Maria Stadler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-22 with Art categories.
Opposing a regime of accumulation and abstraction This anthology explores the tension between abstraction and economics from the perspectives of art, art theory, art history, as well as law, sociology, philosophy, and economics. It poses questions about the current challenges of a global capitalist economy with claims to expansive growth in relation to aesthetics, technology, and democracy. The relationship between abstraction and economics is discussed in a series of theoretical and artistic contributions. The main focus is on the role of art in mediating between the concrete and the abstract, on formalist approaches to art theory, and on the social and economic cues that help us trace the aesthetic regime of capitalism. Ultimately, this book asks, “how can artistic-aesthetic practices counteract the regime of accumulation and abstraction?” The visual arts in a socioeconomic context Reflecting on the relationship between abstraction and economics from capitalist-critical, decolonial, ecological, and queer-feminist perspectives Contributions by Brenna Bhandar, Christina von Braun, Sabeth Buchmann, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sven Lütticken, R. H. Quaytman, Marina Vishmidt, and others Look inside