{"product_id":"regimes-of-violence-toward-a-political-anthropology-hardback-9781517918743","title":"Regimes of Violence; Toward a Political Anthropology (Hardback) 9781517918743","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRegimes of Violence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eToward a Political Anthropology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Protevi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517918743\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 2 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eRegimes of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e affords nothing less than a new political philosophy of violence that begins from a developmental systems theory of biocultural lives. John Protevi’s analysis does not accept the view that conflict and authority are the bases of political life. Instead, he offers a brilliant and novel political anthropology that updates our most entrenched philosophical biases and looks to a politics of joy beyond the relations of command.\"-Davide Panagia, author of \u003ci\u003eSentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"What we inherit biologically is a body with essentially fixed actual properties (organs with well-defined functions) and an open-ended set of capacities (learnable skills) that are real but not necessarily actual. What capacities become actual depends on what we inherit culturally. This book explores our capacity for violence (from enforcing norms to fighting in a war) through a detailed examination of our biocultural nature.\"-Manuel DeLanda, author of \u003ci\u003eAssemblage Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging examination of the roots-and possible future-of violence in human societies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Is aggression inevitable among humans? In \u003ci\u003eRegimes of Violence, \u003c\/i\u003eJohn Protevi explores how human violence originates and exists in our societies. Taking humans as biocultural (that is, our social practices shape our bodies and minds), he shows how aggression does not arrive from any purely biological predisposition but rather occurs only in social regimes of violence that, by manipulating the ways in which culture can shape our biological inheritance of rage and aggression, condition the forms of violence able to be expressed at any one time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Offering detailed insights into human aggression throughout history, Protevi’s analysis ranges from evolutionary psychology to affective ideology and finally to an alternate politics of joy. He examines a wide range of seemingly disparate topics, such as cooperation between early nomadic foragers, organized sports, berserkers and blackout rages, the experiences of maroons escaping slavery, the January 6 invasion of the United States Capitol building, and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. As he entwines the philosophical with the anthropological, he asks readers to consider why humans’ capacity for cooperation and sharing is so persistently overlooked by stories that focus on aggression and warfare. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRegimes of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to studies of Deleuze and Guattari, uniquely combining cutting-edge investigations in psychology, history, evolutionary theory, cultural anthropology, and philosophy to examine the “political philosophy of the mind.” Presenting to readers a refreshingly optimistic perspective, Protevi demonstrates that we are not doomed to war and argues that humans can build a world based on antifascism, joy, and mutual empowerment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Preface \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction: Bioculture and Bodies Politic \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part I. Political Living \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Human Nature \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. Affective Ideology \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part II. Political Psychology \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Berserkers \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Esprit de Corps \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part III. Political Anthropology \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. Statification \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. Marronage \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part IV. Political Events \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 7. The Capitol Invasion \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 8. Covid-19 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion: A Politics of Joy \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Publication History \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619261149464,"sku":"9781517918743","price":67.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/regimes-of-violence-toward-a-political-anthropology-hardback-9781517918743","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}