Abstract
There are a number of approaches which can be used in the analysis of violence. The one set out here is based on the concept of subject—a concept which is itself presented in all its complexity, including the sub-categories of floating subject, hyper-subject, anti-subject, etc. However, the analysis of violence is not uniquely an analytical problem, as the phenomenon must be studied in its historical and material forms. Finally, an innovation in the examination of the emergence of violence consists in also taking into account the subjectivity of the victims. Policies concerning the subject must at one and the same time take into consideration both the characteristics of the violent actor, the historical context, and the expectations of the victims.
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“When we, who live under civil laws, are compelled to make some contract not required by law, we can, thanks to the law, set aside violence” (Montesquieu 1758).
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Charles Tilly proposes this concept in The Contentious French (1986), explaining that any population, in a given society, at a given period, has a limited set of collective actions, that is to say, means of acting in concert on the basis of shared interest. That repertoire changes as one moves from one type of society to another.
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Wieviorka, M. (2011). An End to Violence. In: Heitmeyer, W., Haupt, HG., Malthaner, S., Kirschner, A. (eds) Control of Violence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0383-9_2
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