"Being stirred to much unquietness": Violence and Domestic Violence in Early Modern England

Amussen, Susan Dwyer

doi:10.1353/jowh.2010.0321

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“…What may be considered an illegitimate recourse to violence in one place and time may attract popular approval in another historical context. For example, in early modern England (1550-1750) the most generally approved forms of violence were public executions and mutilations, as well as other kinds of punitive violence carried out in the public domain, such as whipping (Amussen 1994). This contrasts with current forms of state-enforced punishment to individuals in Western nations which are less reliant on violent corrections, usually carried out away from public view and subject to greater public contestation.…”

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The moral economy of violence: Israel's first Lebanon War, 1982

Hamilton

2011

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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The article uses Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 as a case study in the historical and cultural construction of the legitimacy of armed force. The discussion develops the concept of a 'moral economy of violence' which suggests that the legitimacy that state leaders and their publics take for granted in the use of military force is dependent on a variety of historically and culturally contingent beliefs and assumptions. In the case of the first Lebanon War, the key components of the Israeli moral economy of violence included faith in the technologically superior means by which the Israeli army conducted itself, a belief in the efficiency of military combat, and a widely held notion of Lebanon as an Oriental version of the lawless Wild West.

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The moral economy of violence: Israel's first Lebanon War, 1982

Hamilton

2011

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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“…Perhaps, then, Fassin’s questioning of the syntax here helps us push Thompson’s concept toward a more subtle interpretation of class in the twenty-first century as a complex political economy of subject formation. (For additional interesting prior uses of the phrase “moral economy of violence” in historical studies not already cited in our article, see Amussen [1994]; Lee and Vaughan [2008]. )…”

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The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City

Karandinos¹,

Hart²,

Montero³

2014

Current Anthropology

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In an 8-week period, there were 16 shootings with three fatalities, three stabbings, and 14 additional “aggravated assaults” in the four square blocks surrounding our field site in the Puerto Rican corner of North Philadelphia. In the aftermath of the shoot-outs, the drug sellers operating on our block were forced to close down their operations by several mothers who repeatedly called the police. Drawing on the concept of moral economy (Thompson, Scott, Taussig), Mauss’s interpretation of gift exchange, and a political economy critique of hypercarceralization in the United States, we understand the high levels of US inner-city violence as operating within a moral logic framed by economic scarcity and hostile state relations. Residents seek security, self-respect, and profit in social networks that compel them to participate in solidary exchanges of assistive violence dynamized by kinship and gender obligations. A hierarchical, extractive drug economy fills the void left by deindustrialization, resulting in a dynamic of embodied primitive accumulation at the expense of addicted customers and chronically incarcerated just-in-time street sellers at high risk of assault. Nevertheless, the mobilization of violence organizing the illegal drug economy also follows ethical norms and obligations that are recognized as legitimate by many local residents.

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“…Accounts of the abuse of women by their husbands is a reminder that at least some men did indeed do so. 12 Discussions of authority -like those in Gouge -invoked a reciprocal model of rule. In this model, it was the work of the superior that was seen as particularly difficult; all the household manuals spend far more time detailing the roles of husbands and fathers than of wives and mothers.…”

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The Contradictions of Patriarchy in Early Modern England

Amussen¹

2018

Gender & History

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"Being stirred to much unquietness": Violence and Domestic Violence in Early Modern England

Cited by 97 publications

References 30 publications

The moral economy of violence: Israel's first Lebanon War, 1982

The moral economy of violence: Israel's first Lebanon War, 1982

The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City

The Contradictions of Patriarchy in Early Modern England

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