Blood and progress: Violence in pursuit of emancipation
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 7243
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474410601
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- 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
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The monograph explores whether it is ever justified to use violence in the pursuit of peace and emancipation. It employs an ambitious methodological blend of political theory and historical enquiry, which is rare in the literature on political violence. It integrates the modern history of capitalist and communist violence; political thought regarding insurgent violence; and the nature of modern capitalism. The argument is enriched by historical case studies on Castro’s guerrilla warfare in Cuba, post-war US foreign policy, and modern terrorism. The book is proposed for double-weighting due to this extensive historical and geographical range and its wide theoretical scope.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- As noted in the book’s acknowledgements, part of Chapter 4 was originally published as 'Marx, Engels and the Ethics of Violence in Revolt', The European Legacy, vol.17, No.7 (2012), pp. 882-898. This article was submitted to REF 2014. When integrated into Chapter 4, the text was extended to include: a longer discussion of Ernst Bloch; discussion of Trotsky, Luxemburg, Victor Serge and Balibar; and a new conclusion. This means that, apart from two paragraphs, pp.127-140 in the book chapter are previously unpublished. (The rest of the book is also entirely unpublished elsewhere.)
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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