Why Humans Fight Malesevic Sinisa
Why Humans Fight Malesevic Sinisa Malesevic offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. He argues that fighting is not an individual attribute, but a social…
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Why Humans Fight Malesevic Sinisa
Malesevic offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. He argues that fighting is not an individual attribute, but a social phenomenon shaped by one's relationships with other people. Instead of focusing on the motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting possible.
This book explores the role biology, psychology, economics, ideology, and coercion play in one's experience of fighting, emphasising the cultural and historical variability of combativeness. Drawing on recent scholarship across a variety of academic disciplines as well as his own interviews with the former combatants, Malesevic shows that one's willingness to fight is a contextual phenomenon shaped by specific ideological and organisational logic. By drawing from numerous historical and contemporary examples