Overview
- Offers a psychoanalytically oriented, psychosocial perspective on political violence
- Explores how the ground for political violence is prepared, and violent acts are facilitated
- Questions how for certain people violence becomes a logical – perversely reasonable – response
Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers a psychosocial perspective on political violence, employing a strong current of psychoanalytic thinking. In the course of its chapters an international roster of researchers and scholars offers a richly complex and insightful view of diverse forms of political violence and its build-ups. The authors discuss the processes by which the ground for political violence is prepared, and how violent acts are facilitated. They question how social, cultural and political constellations can develop in such a way that, for certain people in this constellation, violence becomes a logical – perversely reasonable – response. This collection demonstrates what a psychoanalytic perspective can bring to existing approaches to political violence, going beyond the social movement approach by unfolding the inherent ambiguity in accepted concepts within the study of political violence.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Steffen Krüger is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway. He develops critical, psychosocial approaches to media texts and discourses.
Karl Figlio is in private psychoanalytic practice, and is also Professor Emeritus within the Department for Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, at the University of Essex, UK. His research includes psychoanalytic methodology, fundamentalism, memory and reparation.
Barry Richards is Professor of Political Psychology at Bournemouth University, UK. He has long-standing interests in terrorism and political violence, in social cohesion, and in national identity and nationalisms.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fomenting Political Violence
Book Subtitle: Fantasy, Language, Media, Action
Editors: Steffen Krüger, Karl Figlio, Barry Richards
Series Title: Studies in the Psychosocial
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97505-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97504-7Published: 12 January 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40386-7Published: 20 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97505-4Published: 30 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-2629
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2637
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 260
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychosocial Studies, Community and Environmental Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Political Sociology, Self and Identity