Violence and Its Alternatives: An Interdisciplinary reader
by
Macmillan 1999
The proliferation of violence is arguably one of the most crucial topics
of concern in an era of ethnic wars on one hand, and cultural debates
about what constitutes violence in arenas of pornography, nationalism,
race relations, the media, even environmental issues on the other. Violence and Its Alternatives
fills the existing gap in the literature on violence with essays from
the most influential writers in the fields of politics, psychology,
sociology, gender studies, and race studies. This collection has two
features not found in any other discussions of violence: first, a full
spectrum of views, from now-classic treatments to postmodern
considerations; and second, the first interdisciplinary study of
nonviolence.
