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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 September 2009
      27 April 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511581069
      9780521876278
      9780521699761
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511581069
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 332 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 332 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Law, Human Rights, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    This book brings together scholarship on three different forms of state violence, examining each for what it can tell us about the conditions under which states use violence and the significance of violence to our understanding of states. This book calls into question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a sustained effort at interpretation, sense making, and critique. It suggests that condemning the state's decisions to use lethal force is not a simple matter of abolishing the death penalty or – to take another exemplary example of the killing state – demanding that the state engage only in just (publicly declared and justified) wars, pointing out that even such overt instances of lethal force are more elusive as targets of critique than one might think. Indeed, altering such decisions may do little to change the essential relationship of the state to violence.

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    "This well-rounded collection of essays asks the reader to re-configure how we think of a state’s decision to use violence. It is not about the insistence of its citizens that the state only engage in justified acts of violence or about eliminating capital punishment, but rather how we evaluate the relationship between the sovereign state and its citizens.... It would therefore be remiss, not only for those already interested in issues dealing with states of violence, but also the novice reader, not to pick up a copy of this edited volume since it illuminates a state-constructing narrative and how discussions of 'war, punishment and structural violence,' once discussed separately, can illuminate each other by discussing them side by side."
    - Kimberley Fletcher, Law and Politics Book Review

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