Masters Theses
Date of Award
8-2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Major
Sociology
Major Professor
Michelle Brown
Committee Members
Lois Presser, Harry Dahms
Abstract
In this project, I explore the relationship of biosocial perspectives, specifically the study of energy and entropy, to contemporary work in criminology and social theory. After working through an elaboration of entropy, I explore its relevance to social life through an eclectic but necessary survey of a key set of scholars whose work focuses upon the sacrifice and criminalization of the poor, the intensification of exclusion and genocidal contexts, and finally, the possibility of a politics of change through indigenous knowledges. Bringing these various schools of thought together allows us to see the interdisciplinary linkages that might better reveal the urgency of emergency in our contemporary era.
Recommended Citation
Webster, Benjamin Corey, "Entropy and the Economy of Violence: Anthropophagy and Sacrificial Violence in Late Modernity. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2015.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/3523
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