The Meanings of Violence

by Stanko; Elizabeth A

• ISBN13: 9780415301299
• ISBN10: 0415301297
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume locates the meaning of violence within social contexts, identities, and social divisions. It aims to break open our way of speaking about violence and demonstrate the value in exploring the multiple, contradictory, and complex meanings of violence in society. The wide range of topics cover violence between prostitutes and clients, among young people, in bars and nightclubs, in prison, as well as violence motivated by racism or homophobia.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	ix
Notes on research projects	xiii
Introduction: conceptualising the meanings of violence	1	(14)
ELIZABETH A. STANKO
PART I Conceptualising the meanings of violence	15	(54)
1 Headlines from history: violence in the press, 1850-1914	17	(15)
JOHN ARCHER AND JO JONES
2 'Jump on top, get the job done': strategies employed by female prostitutes to reduce the risk of client violence	32	(17)
GRAHAM HART AND MARINA BARNARD
3 Violence against children: thresholds of acceptance for physical punishment in a normative study of parents, children and discipline	49	(20)
NEAL HAZEL, DEBORAH GRATE, SUSAN CREIGHTON, JULIA FIELD AND STEVEN FINCH
PART II Violence, meaning and social identities	69	(78)
4 `Taking it to heart': girls and the meanings of violence	71	(19)
MICHELE BURMAN, JANE BROWN AND SUSAN BATCHELOR
5 'Hi, I'm Ramon and I run this place': challenging the normalisation of violence in children's homes from young people's perspectives	90	(22)
EMMA RENOLD AND CHRISTINE BARTER
6 Understanding racist violence	112	(18)
LARRY RAY, DAVID SMITH AND LIZ WASTELL
7 The constitution of fear in gay space	130	(17)
LESLIE J. MORAN, BEVERLEY SKEGGS, PAUL TYRER AND KAREN CORTEEN
PART III Violence, meaning and social contexts	147	(56)
8 Defined by men's abuse: the 'spoiled identity' of domestic violence survivors	149	(16)
ROSEMARY ARIS, GILL HAGUE AND AUDREY MULLENDER
9 Bouncers and the social context of violence: masculinity, class and violence in the night-time economy	165	(19)
SIMON WINLOW, DICK HOBBS, STUART LISTER AND PHIL HADFIELD
10 Violence in a changing political context: Northern Ireland and South Africa	184	(19)
COLIN KNOX AND RACHEL MONAGHAN
PART IV Violence, meaning and institutional contexts	203	(42)
11 Institutional violence: prison conflicts in context	205	(19)
KIMMETT EDGAR, CAROL MARTIN AND IAN O'DONNELL
12 Violence, fear and 'the everyday': negotiating spatial practice in the city of Belfast	224	(21)
KAREN LYSAGHT AND ANNE BASTEN
Index	245