Violence Regimes

A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2059902
AutoresJ Hearn (0000-0002-9808-1413, University of Huddersfield, autor correspondente), Sofia Strid (0000-0001-7822-4563, Örebro University), Anne Laure Humbert (0000-0002-1544-5884, Oxford Brookes University), Dag Balkmar (0000-0002-5268-8957, Örebro University)
Ano2022
Volume51
Fascículo4
Páginas565-594
Data de publicação2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheory and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0304-2421 • E-ISSN: 1573-7853
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11186-022-09474-4
OpenAlexW4210890806
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas86

This paper critically interrogates the usefulness of the concept of violence regimes for social politics, social analysis, and social theory. In the first case, violence regimes address and inform politics and policy, that is, social politics, both around various forms of violence, such as gender-based violence, violence against women, anti-lesbian, gay and transgender violence, intimate partner violence, and more widely in terms of social and related policies and practices on violence and anti-violence. In the second case, violence regimes assist social analysis of the interconnections of different forms and aspects of violence, and relative autonomy from welfare regimes and gender regimes. Third, the violence regime concept engages a wider range of issues in social theory, including the exclusion of the knowledges of the violated, most obviously, but not only, when the voices and experiences of those killed are unheard. The concept directs attention to assumptions made in social theory as incorporating or neglecting violence. More specifically, it highlights the significance of: social effects beyond agency; autotelic ontology, that is, violence as a means and end in itself, and an inequality in itself; the relations of violence, sociality and social relations; violence and power, and the contested boundary between them; and materiality-discursivity in violence and what is to count as violence. These are key issues for both violence studies and social theory more generally

Criminology · Social philosophy · Social relation · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology