Semantische Verarmung der Kommunikation. Die Leere des Gewaltraums.
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1532
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Umkämpfte Räume Raumbilder, Ordnungswille und Gewaltmobilisierung
- Publisher
- Wallstein Verlag
- ISBN
- 9783835319219
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This essay explores the emptiness of 'spaces of violence' where pre-existing rules set by states cease to apply. It argues that these 'voids' are filled by violent agents or groups, who communicate new rules through bodies (of perpetrators and victims of violence) and the physical practices of violence rather than through words and concepts. This results in the 'semantic impoverishment' of communication in these spaces but also in a shift to communication based on performative actions, often resulting in a new culture of violence. The essay provides detailed theoretical discussion and uses archival examples from the Russian Civil War.
