Market And Violence

Author : Heide Gerstenberger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004522638
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Market and Violence written by Heide Gerstenberger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023. ** Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal approaches seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's Market and Violence does not contest the thesis that there has been, in many places, a decline in the use of violence in the pursuit of profit; but it demolishes the assumption that this can be put down to the evolution of economic rationality. By means of a deep engagement with the concrete historical reality of capitalist economies, Gerstenberger establishes that, wherever capitalism has been tamed, this has been achieved only by a combination of energetic social contestation and political intervention. First published in German in 2018, the present English-language edition makes a sweeping history of capitalist violence by one of the preeminent theorists of capitalist society working today available to a wider readership.

Author : Jean Daudelin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319762494
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality written by Jean Daudelin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking. Building on US scholarship that looks at the role of social exclusion and discriminatory policing in drug violence, the authors of this volume show that the association between illegality and violence cannot be divorced from the inequality that prevails in those countries. This book looks in detail at the functioning of drug markets in Recife, the largest metropolitan area in Brazil’s North-East and, over the last 25 years, the heart of the country’s most violent metropolitan area. Building on extensive interviews and field work, the authors map out the city’s drug markets and explore the reasons why some of those markets are violent, and others are not. The analysis focuses on the micromechanics of each market, looking at consumption patterns and at the workings of retail sales and distribution. Such a systematic micro-level comparative analysis of the workings of Latin American drug markets is simply not available elsewhere in current literature. These findings point to significant gaps in current understandings of the link between illegal markets and violence, and they illuminate the need to factor in the way in which those markets are nested in exclusionary social contexts.

Author : Vicente Berdayes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319251694
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence written by Vicente Berdayes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling volume analyzes the wide-scale societal impact of neoliberal economic policy on contemporary life and behavior. Synthesizing perspectives from politics and economics with insights from psychology and linguistics, it argues that market-driven public institutions promote antisocial thinking, discourage critical reflection, and inure individuals to inequity and cruelty. Chapters cite the ubiquity of violence in modern society, from the marketing of the military to impersonal mass upheavals in the job market, as devaluing human worth and thus self-worth. But the editors also assert that these currents are not terminal, and the book concludes by identifying conditions potentially leading to a more civil and egalitarian future. Included in the coverage: The language of current economics: social theory, the market, and the disappearance of relationships. Neoliberalism and education: the disfiguration of students. Slicing up societies: commercial media and the destruction of social environments. Neoliberalism and the transformation of work. Economics, the network society, and the ontology of violence. A new economic order without violence. Given the centrality of economic events on the global stage, Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence stands out as both a springboard for discussion and a call to action, to be read by political and cultural economists, political scientists, and sociologists.

Author : James A. Tyner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803284586
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in Capitalism written by James A. Tyner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, James Tyner asks, separates the murder of a runaway youth from the death of a father denied a bone-marrow transplant because of budget cuts? Moving beyond our culture’s reductive emphasis on whether a given act of violence is intentional—and may therefore count as deliberate murder—Tyner interrogates the broader forces that produce violence. His uniquely geographic perspective considers where violence takes place (the workplace, the home, the prison, etc.) and how violence moves across space. Approaching violence as one of several methods of constituting space, Tyner examines everything from the way police departments map crime to the emergence of “environmental criminology.” Throughout, he casts violence in broad terms—as a realm that is not limited to criminal acts and one that can be divided into the categories of “killing” and “letting die.” His framework extends the study of biopolitics by examining the state’s role in producing (or failing to produce) a healthy citizenry. It also adds to the new literature on capitalism by articulating the interconnections between violence and political economy. Simply put, capitalism (especially its neoliberal and neoconservative variants) is structured around a valuation of life that fosters a particular abstraction of violence and crime.

Author : James T. Hamilton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228310
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Channeling Violence written by James T. Hamilton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If it bleeds, it leads." The phrase captures television news directors' famed preference for opening newscasts with the most violent stories they can find. And what is true for news is often true for entertainment programming, where violence is used as a product to attract both viewers and sponsors. In this book, James Hamilton presents the first major theoretical and empirical examination of the market for television violence. Hamilton approaches television violence in the same way that other economists approach the problem of pollution: that is, as an example of market failure. He argues that television violence, like pollution, generates negative externalities, defined as costs borne by others than those involved in the production activity. Broadcasters seeking to attract viewers may not fully bear the costs to society of their violent programming, if those costs include such factors as increased levels of aggression and crime in society. Hamilton goes on to say that the comparison to pollution remains relevant when considering how to deal with the problem. Approaches devised to control violent programming, such as restricting it to certain times and rating programs according to the violence they contain, have parallels in zoning and education policies designed to protect the environment. Hamilton examines in detail the microstructure of incentives that operate at every level of television broadcasting, from programming and advertising to viewer behavior, so that remedies can be devised to reduce violent programming without restricting broadcasters' right to compete.

Author : Frederic Chapin Lane
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873954037
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Profits from Power written by Frederic Chapin Lane and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of the many sources of power, these essays deal with only one: physical violence and the threat of violence exerted by some men over others." Thus Frederic C. Lane introduces his essays on profits and protection rent, or the cost of protecting economic activities from the disruption of violence. With the theme of protection rent, Lane analyzes both particular cases, such as the development of trade in the West Indies and the prosperity of sixteenth-century Venice, and general questions, such as the role of capitalism in economic development and the economic relationships of the West to the rest of the world. In prose that is always graceful and clear, Lane presents his thoughts from many years of study that will be stimulating to sociologists and anthropologists, as well as to economic historians.

Author : Barbara H. Chasin
Publisher : Humanities Press International
ISBN 13 : 9781591021605
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inequality & Violence in the United States written by Barbara H. Chasin and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Vadim Volkov
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703285
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Entrepreneurs written by Vadim Volkov and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market economy. The core of his work is competition among so-called violence-managing agencies—criminal groups, private security services, private protection companies, and informal protective agencies associated with the state—which multiplied with the liberal reforms of the early 1990s. This competition provides an unusual window on the dynamics of state formation.Violent Entrepreneurs is remarkable for its research. Volkov conducted numerous interviews with members of criminal groups, heads of protection companies, law enforcement employees, and businesspeople. He bases his findings on journalistic and anecdotal evidence as well as on his own personal observation. Volkov investigates the making of violence-prone groups in sports clubs (particularly martial arts clubs), associations for veterans of the Soviet—Afghan war, ethnic gangs, and regionally based social groups, and he traces the changes in their activities across the decade. Some groups wore state uniforms and others did not, but all of their members spoke and acted essentially the same and were engaged in the same activities: intimidation, protection, information gathering, dispute management, contract enforcement, and taxation. Each group controlled the same resource—organized violence.

Author : Alain J. Richard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Market Culture and Sacredness written by Alain J. Richard and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frans-Willem Korsten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009246453
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marketing Violence written by Frans-Willem Korsten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element describes the development of an affective economy of violence in the early modern Dutch Republic through the circulation of images. The Element outlines that while violence became more controlled in the course of the 17th century, with fewer public executions for instance, the realm of cultural representation was filled with violent imagery: from prints, atlases and paintings, through theatres and public spectacles, to peep boxes. It shows how emotions were evoked, exploited, and controlled in this affective economy of violence based on desires, interests and exploitation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.