On Retaliation: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of a Basic Human Condition (Integration and Conflict Studies, 15) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785334182 ISBN 13: 9781785334184

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2017

Synopsis

Retaliation is associated with all forms of social and political organization, and retaliatory logics inform many different conflict resolution procedures from consensual settlement to compensation to violent escalations. This book derives a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, defining retaliation as the human disposition to strive for a reactive balancing of conflicts and injustices. On Retaliation presents a synthesized approach to both the violence-generating and violence-avoiding potentials of retaliation. Contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly on legitimate punishment and the factors of socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations and economic processes.

About this title

About the Author:

Bertram Turner is an anthropologist and a senior researcher in the department ‘Law and Anthropology’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. He has conducted extended field research in the Middle East and North Africa, Germany and Canada and has held university teaching positions in Munich, Leipzig and Halle and has published widely on the anthropology of law, religion, conflict, morality, development and resource extraction.

Review:

“On Retaliation is impressive, exciting and full of insight. It will be a valuable and widely referred to contribution to academic scholarship and to policy formation in an extremely critical area of national and global concern.” · Andrew Arno, University of Hawai’i

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1785334182
• ISBN 13: 9781785334184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Turner Bertram, Schlee Günther