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Explosive Conflict: Time-Dynamics of Violence

Explosive Conflict: Time-Dynamics of Violence Hard cover - 2022

by Randall Collins

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; What determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does? Inequality and hostility are not enough to explain when and where violence breaks out. Collins shows what makes some protests more violent than others and why some rev
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  • Title Explosive Conflict: Time-Dynamics of Violence
  • Author Randall Collins
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 306
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2022-02-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9781032157733_pod
  • ISBN 9781032157733 / 1032157739
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Social conflict, Violence
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021036160
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.6

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This sequel to Randall Collins' world-influential micro-sociology of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does. Inequality and hostility are not enough to explain when and where violence breaks out. Time-dynamics are the time-bubbles when people are most nationalistic; the hours after a protest starts when violence is most likely to happen. Ranging from the three months of nationalism and hysteria after 9/11 to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, Randall Collins shows what makes some protests more violent than others and why some revolutions are swift and non-violent tipping-points while others devolve into lengthy civil wars. Winning or losing are emotional processes, continuing in the era of computerized war, while high-tech spawns terrorist tactics of hiding in the civilian population and using cheap features of the Internet as substitutes for military organization. Nevertheless, Explosive Conflict offers some optimistic discoveries on clues to mass rampages and heading off police atrocities, with practical lessons from time-dynamics of violence.

About the author

Randall Collins is the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. His articles and books are influential in many academic disciplines throughout the world. His books include Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change, and Conflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated (Routledge).