Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela
Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela
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肢解和记住国家：委内瑞拉政治暴力的语义
DOI：
10.1017/s0010417500017047
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发表时间：
1991
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Julie Skurski
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作者：
F. Coronil;Julie Skurski
虽然政治暴力在国家的形成中发挥了核心作用，但它的历史构成及其在代表国家方面的作用却很少受到关注。对暴力的解释往往等同于确定其原因，暴力的形式由其功能来解释，而其功能则被视为工具性的;暴力被贬低为对立的社会行为者为追求相互冲突的目的而使用的一种实用工具。无论是作为一个原因，功能，或工具，暴力通常是假设，而不是在其具体的审查。很少有人注意到它的具体表现形式，注意到它的效果如何与施加它的手段密不可分，以及注意到它的部署和解释所依据的意义。相比之下，假设社会类型和暴力形式之间存在对应关系的类型学方法往往认识到暴力的不透明性，但却忽视了其表现形式的历史深度和特殊性。
Although political violence has played a central part in the formation of nations, its historical constitution and its role in representing nations havereceived scant attention. All too frequently the explanation of violence is equated with the identification of its causes, its form is accounted for by its function, and its function is seen in instrumental terms; violence is reduced to a practical tool used by opposing social actors in pursuit of conflicting ends. Whether treated as a cause, function, or instrument, violence is generally assumed rather than examined in its concreteness. Little attention is paid to its specific manifestations, to the way its effects are inseparably related to the means through which it is exerted, and to the meanings that inform its deployment and interpretation. In contrast, typological approaches that postulate a correspondence between types of societies and forms of violence often recognize the opacity of violence yet lose sight of the historical depth and specificity of its manifestations.