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dc.contributor.advisorRobinson, Peter Stuart
dc.contributor.authorYaghoubzadeh, Hamed
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-28T07:48:06Z
dc.date.available2014-10-28T07:48:06Z
dc.date.issued2014-05-15
dc.description.abstractElimination of violence and establishment of sustainable peace have been among the longest-standing human ambitions. Violence with its paradoxical picture, however, has been an inseparable part of human history. Regarding different aspects and forms of violence, it could be defined as something to do with a change in the “normal” state of affairs. According to mentioned definition of violence, a comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon is tied to proper understanding of political life. As a result of the main characteristic of modern state, “ the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force in the enforcement of its order”, violence could be classified in legitimate and illegitimate. In other words, modern state by introducing itself as sovereign, which is considered as natural, for-granted and even necessary to keep order and maintain security, has the right to define “normal state”, make decision on “the state of exception” and accordingly legitimize violence in different scales. To explain the role of modern state in legitimized violence, I employed the concept of camp, which is according to Giorgio Agamben the fundamental biopolitical paradigm of modern societies. Hence, illustrating the similarities between variety camps in states with different political, economic and ideological structures, could disclose the real violent face of modern state. Suspension of the state of law and dehumanization are two common processes that are employed by state in camps to legitimize violence against people.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/6772
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_6380
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2014 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDSVF-3901en
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Political science and organizational theory: 240en
dc.subjectSovereigntyen
dc.subjectlegitimized violenceen
dc.subjectmodern stateen
dc.subjectcampen
dc.subjectdehumanizationen
dc.subjectsuspension of the state of lawen
dc.titleModern State as a Source of Legitimized Violence; Dilemma of Sovereignty and Violenceen
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen


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