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Social, Cultural and Political Violence

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This chapter defines the distinctions between social, cultural and political types of violence and investigates how these forms of violence relate to medical suicide and instrumental suicide. The goal of this chapter is to articulate the full complexity of phenomena that involve life-ending acts of self-killing so that they can be problematized and considered in full. There is a distinct difference in the causes of violence in these three human domains of engagement and much can be learned from the fields of sociology, social work, criminal justice, anthropology, political studies and philosophy that delineate and comprehensively consider aspects and incarnations of social, cultural and political violence.

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Standish, K. (2020). Social, Cultural and Political Violence. In: Suicide through a Peacebuilding Lens . Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9737-0_6

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