Violence in the Contemporary Public Realm

Violence in the Contemporary Public Realm

In this session, we scrutinise overt and covert acts of violence in the contemporary public realm, particularly political, economic, cultural, and social, and how diverse forms of violence are employed to enforce the societal hegemonic social order on society/structural and individual/agency levels. Thus, drawing inspirations from the discourses of Marx’s economic violence and social class inequalities, Gramsci’s cultural hegemony, Durkheim’s and Weber’s social order and societal control, Galtung’s cultural violence, and Arendt’s violence and power. Furthermore, linking historical and contemporary violence with exploring Wieviorka’s terrorism, racism, and social movements discourses.

Keywords: hegemonic ideology, systemic, symbolic, structural and agency violence, public realm,

Regular session

Oral presentation