The Experience and Fear of Violence in the Public Realm Taylor & Francis Ltd

Societal order is underpinned by structural, systemic, and symbolic violence, all integrated into contemporary society’s cultural and social fabric, thus inconspicuous social norms as ingrained through internalisation. The book is written from a sociological perspective and within the risk society discourse, where the risk of violence in the public domain is omnipresent. The discussions are underpinned by discourses of Arendt, Bauman, Bourdieu, Marx, Foucault, Galtung and Beck and present-day an...