Civilizing the Body Trough Time
by Pieter Spierenburg
- Author(s)
- Pieter Spierenburg
- Publication, year
- Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2013
- Scope
- 223 Pages, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780745653495
This book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected. Taking the decline of violence and the transformation of punishment as its guiding themes, the book highlights key dynamics of historical and social change, and charts how a refinement and civilizing of manners, and new forms of celebration and festival, accompanied the decline of violence. Ranging along the way from murder to etiquette, from social control to popular culture, from religion to death, and from honor to prisons, every chapter creatively uses the theories of Norbert Elias, while also engaging with the work of Foucault and Durkheim. Includes “The Green, Green Grass of Home: Reflections on Capital Punishment and the Penal System in Europe and America from a Long-Term Perspective”, about Het Groene Zoodje in Den Haag.
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 2: Recht en Vrede ; See You in The Hague
- Extra themes
- Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
