About the Book: The Practice Of War: Production, Reproduction And Communication
Of Armed Violence
Through a series of essays that move from looking at the nature of violence to
the peace processes that follow it, this important book provides some answers to
these questions. It discusses and examines social, economic and cultural
practices connected to and generated by violent combat through a cross-cultural
perspective. The book also analyses new dimensions of social interaction, such
as the internet, which now provide a bridge between local concerns and global
networks and are fundamentally altering the practices of war. The editors
present new empirical material and open theoretical dimensions on the