No Peace, No War: An Anthropology Of Contemporary Armed Conflicts - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 082141576X ISBN 13: 9780821415764

Casa editrice: Ohio Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the debate about 'what is war?' For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of infection must be contained.
This book takes a different approach. Anthropologists, who have lived with and through the wars they describe here, reflect a paradoxical assumption that to understand war we must deny it a special status. Rather than quarantine war and leave it to security specialists they grasp its character as but one among many aspects of social reality, organised by social agents, made through social action. All war is long-term struggle organised for political ends, and neither the means nor the ends can be understood without reference to a specific social context.

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A rash of small wars erupted after the Cold War ended in Africa, the Balkans, and other parts of the former communist world. No Peace, No War departs from the usual analysis that considers the new wars mindless mass actions to offer the paradoxical idea that to understand war it must be denied special status. Rather than leave war to the security specialists, these writers attempt to grasp its character as one among many aspects of social reality.

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• Editore: Ohio Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 082141576X
• ISBN 13: 9780821415764
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 214
• Redattore: Richards Paul, Helander Bernhard