The Economies of Violence

The Forgotten Variable

Buch | Hardcover

340 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70855-6 (ISBN)

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This edited volume delves into violence within economic frameworks, showing its diversity and the active roles criminal and also licit actors undertake in perpetuating its pervasive influence, revealing violence as a calculated pursuit driven by both profit and power.

The covert interplay between violence and economies has long eluded public scrutiny, remaining a neglected topic in academic and policy circles alike.

Amidst the proclamation of the “liberal peace”, democratic nations in the 90s sidestepped discussions on violent influences within their borders. Yet, the repercussions of economic violence, spanning psychological trauma to societal upheaval, persist globally.

Beyond preconceived ideas limiting violence to geographic areas and certain political regimes, identifying the profiteers and veiled beneficiaries of such systems is paramount.

This understanding is crucial in dismantling the undemocratic underpinnings of economies of violence, fostering a path towards equity and peace.

Contributors are Arturo Alvarado, Alain Bauer, Clotilde Champeyrache, Julien Dechanet, Nazia Hussain, David Izadifar, Louise Shelley, and Guillaume Soto-Mayor.

Guillaume Soto-Mayor is an independent consultant, non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, and fellow at the CRTG-Working Group and the Timbuktu Institute. He is the co-founder of the egregor project. He specializes in analysing terrorism, criminal, religious and political violence across Africa.

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Note on Contributors

General Introduction

Alain Bauer and Guillaume Soto-Mayor

1 Economics and Violence: Hidden Forces and Unaccounted Tales

Clotilde Champeyrache

2 Human Trafficking and the Economy of Violence

Louise Shelley

3 The Economy of Violence in Afghanistan 2001–2021

David Izadifar

4 Mapping the Politics of Water and the Hidden Violence of the Legal Economy through the Small-Scale Water Providers of Metro Manila

Nazia Hussain

5 Illicit Urban Economies: The Toll of Local and Global Illegalities in the Making of Cities

Arturo Alvarado

6 Warlords and Violent Entrepreneurs

Guillaume Soto-Mayor

7 The Digital Realm: An Amplifier of the Economy of Violence

Julien Dechanet

Conclusion

Clotilde Champeyrache and Guillaume Soto–Mayor

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 295
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	719 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-70855-3 / 9004708553
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70855-6 / 9789004708556
Zustand	Neuware