Journal article
Afterword: Violence and the State in South Asia
- Abstract:
- In reflecting on the contributions to this collection, the afterword outlines three ways of understanding violence – direct physical force, structural violence, and cultural or symbolic violence – and relates these to Steven Lukes’ three faces of power. It revisits Weber’s definition of the modern state as claiming a monopoly of the legitimate use of the first kind of violence, and contrasts that with the ways in which the actual practice of South Asian politics implies or requires violence. The example of state and non-state violence in Nepal in 2015 is used to illustrate these themes. This example brings out, as several contributions do, the importance of borders as violence-provoking sites of state sensitivity.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1163/15685314-04506008
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- Publisher:
- Brill Academic Publishers
- Journal:
- Asian Journal of Social Science More from this journal
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 778-787
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-19
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- EISSN:
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1568-5314
- ISSN:
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1568-4849
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714173
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2017-08-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Koninklijke Brill
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2017. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Brill at: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04506008
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