ABSTRACT
Scholarship appertaining to violence and war speaks to wide-ranging concerns and academic interests as well as subject matter available for philosophical, historical and cultural elucidation. Possibilities for critical insight arise when one considers the multiple forms of “violence” and “war” and likely relations between these terms as the former engages social formations, sources of agency, and patterns of inequality and the latter reinforces and challenges the power of nation-states as conventionally understood. The field of inquiry introduced includes historical sources and thinkers worth revisiting and contemporary scholars at the forefront of geo-political, post-colonial, and environmental theory among a number of more recent humanities discourses.
