Emergent Axioms of Violence

Toward an Anthropology of Post-Liberal Modernity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2145145
AutoresStavroula Pipyrou (0000-0002-0470-3390, University of St Andrews, autor correspondente), Antonio Sorge (0000-0002-2616-4113, University of Toronto Scarborough)
Ano2021
Volume31
Fascículo3
Páginas225-240
Data de publicação2021-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2021.1966611
OpenAlexW3193390998
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas51

This collection highlights the diverse and complicated ways that violence becomes axiomatic, namely through political rhetoric, epistemological impositions, and colonial legacies. Considering how axiomatic violence emerges from events of rupture as well as slow-moving structural inequalities, authors interrogate both the novelty and mundane quality of the current political moment. Approaching violence as axiomatic expands the conceptual lexicon for discussing how rhetorics, metaphors, and prescriptive assumptions can be inherently violent and become normalised, losing their event-like status. Through the routinisation of the extraordinary, truths become indisputable. Axioms combine neoteric and foundational violence to lend legitimacy to apparently incontestable categories of domination, disenfranchisement, and epistemological governance

Axiom · Epistemology · Legitimacy · Linguistics · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Structural violence · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance