Laurie, EW and Shaw, IGR orcid.org/0000-0002-4289-1740 (2018) Violent conditions: The injustices of being. Political Geography, 65. pp. 8-16. ISSN 0962-6298
Abstract
Violent conditions burn in the background of daily life. Consider the slow wounds of ecological violence, the crumbling cityscapes of austerity, or the mental trauma inflicted by capitalism. In this paper, we provide an account for understanding violence in and through conditions, drawing on the work of Johan Galtung and Gilles Deleuze in particular. Violent conditions are not the property of individuals or monolithic structures: they are the existential climates by which localized subjects and worlds condense into being. In making this argument, we not only advance scholarship on the geographies of violence, but also make a sustained case for how and why condition is an important social, political, and ontological heuristic. Our examination is framed by unearthing the complex conditions and discontents of capitalism. Violent conditions forcefully constrain, traumatize, and poison the very resources of our becoming. Accordingly, we provide a map for exploring the geographies of violent conditions across four interrelated sections. (1) The Virtual, (2) Truncated Life, (3) Time, (4) Common Sense. Collectively, these explain how violence is embedded in the flesh and bones of our worlds. The paper finishes by discussing the injustices of being and the possibilities for peace.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Political Geography. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Violence; Condition; Capitalism; Arendt; Deleuze; Galtung |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2020 16:38 |
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2020 16:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.03.005 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:167784 |
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