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Violence and Society features a multidisciplinary collection of readings by leading national and international experts that set a new agenda for our understanding of interpersonal and state violence in contemporary society.

• Features contributions from leading international experts in collective, state, and interpersonal violence
• Develops innovative interdisciplinary theorizations based on new empirical studies on violence and society
• Incorporates within an emerging analytical framework issues of war, domestic and gender-based violence, fighting, honor...

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the explosion and radical extension of human rights discourse; renewed cultural interest in perpetrators of violence alongside the phenomenal...