Rethinking the Anthropology of Violence for the Twenty-First Century

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ID3095160
AuthorsAntonius Cgm Robben (0000-0003-3253-339X, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Antonius Robben
Year2016
Volume2
Issue1
Pages1-3
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueConflict and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2164-4543 • E-ISSN: 2164-4551
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/arcs.2016.020101
OpenAlexW2549303684
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

Technological developments in the security field are calling for a new anthropological approach to the study of violence. The anthropology of violence shifted during the late 1980s from an emphasis on the structural and symbolic dynamics of violence to a focus on historical and social practices. The concern for violence exercised through political relations was replaced by attention to the everyday experience of violence, while central concepts such as state, power, ritual, mobilization, and resistance made way for terror, trauma, suffering, subjectivity, and resilience. The time has arrived for a new take on violence that can help us understand the revolutionary impact of technological innovations adopted by police, military, secret services, and private companies. The push for seamless surveillance systems, the tapping of e-mail traffic, phone and wireless communications, permanent camera supervision, body scans, biosensors, and activity analyses of cars and people circulating in public places are affecting people's daily lives, bodily integrity, and freedom of personal expression and selfhood

Criminology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Structural violence · Subjectivity · Digital Games and Media · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

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