Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual

by Julie A. Webber

Overview

***NOW IN PAPERBACK*** This book explores the hidden curriculum of American culture that is rooted in perceived inequality and the shame, rage, and violence that it provokes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433158865
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	03/05/2019
Series:	Violence Studies , #1
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Julie A. Webber is Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. She has published several books and essays. Among them are Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence and The Cultural Set Up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the U.S. Post 9/11.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments – List of Mass Attacks (1999–2016) Included in This Analysis – Introduction: Virtual Violence: Beyond the «Columbine Thesis» – The Many Tropes of Columbine – Passage à l’acte: New Thoughts on Civility – The Failure of the Middle-Class Social Contract – Of Rogues and Fans – Remote Projection and Militarized Subjectivity: A Different Iteration – Conclusion – Epilogue – Notes – Bibliography – Index.

Editorial Reviews

Beyond Columbine provides a fresh theoretical reading to the expanding corpus on school shootings. It deconstructs previous literature and goes beyond existing knowledge in order to understand virtual violence today. This is very timely book for anyone wishing to understand the phenomenon of mass violence.”—Atte Oksanen, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland

“Julie A. Webber reflects on public mass shootings since Columbine by eschewing the usual and easy explanations. Describing the perpetrators as ‘canaries in the coal mine,’ she suggests that we therefore need to reflect upon the coal mine—what is it about society that makes such acts compelling to these men? She offers a complex journey through the facts of the cases and the larger questions about the virtual and the real.”—Joan Tronto, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota

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