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Bertram Turner and Günther Schlee (ed.)On Retaliation  Towards an Interdisciplinary  Understanding of a Basic Human ConditionBerghahn, 2017ISBN  978-1-78533-418-4 Retaliation is associated with all forms of social and political organization, and retaliatory logics inform many different conflict resolution procedures from consensual settlement to compensation to violent escalations. This book derives a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, defining retaliation as the human disposition to strive for a reactive balancing of conflicts and injustices. On Retaliation presents a synthesized approach to both the violence-generating and violence-avoiding potentials of retaliation. Contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly on legitimate punishment and the factors of socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations and economic processes.CONTENTSIntroduction: On Retaliation: Conceptual Plurality, Transdisciplinary Research, Rifts, Blurrings and TranslationsBertram TurnerSECTION I: RETALIATION AND THE HUMAN NATURE: THE SEARCH FOR UNIVERSALITIES?Chapter 1. Revenge and Retaliation: A Social-functionalist ApproachMario Gollwitzer and Arne SjöströmChapter 2. In The Heart of the Moment: The Influence of Visceral Factors on RetaliationRobert J. Bies and Thomas M. TrippSECTION II: RETALIATION IN PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF CRIME AND DEVIANCEChapter 3. A Criminal is a Victim is a Criminal? An Economist’s View on the Victim-Offender OverlapHorst EntorfChapter 4. Laypeople’s Reactions to Deviancy as Determined by Retributive MotivesMargit E. OswaldSECTION III: RETALIATION AND PUNISHMENT: ENCOUNTER OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL NORMATIVITIESChapter 5. Violent Crimes and Retaliation in the European Criminal Justice System between the Seventeenth and Nineteen CenturiesKarl HärterChapter 6. Crime in Motion: Predation, Retaliation and the Spread of Urban ViolenceRichard Wright, Volkan Topalli and Scott JacquesSECTION IV: FAITH-BASED RETALIATION: SPIRITUALITY AND NORMATIVITY OF THE RETALIATORY GRAMMARChapter 7. Crime and Punishment: Intentionality and Diya in Algeria and SudanYazid Ben HounetChapter 8. ‘Bewitched People and Bad Luck Everywhere!’ Disputing and Magical Retaliation in SiSwati-Speaking Southern AfricaSeverin LenartSECTION V: RETALIATION IN NEGOTIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORDERSChapter 9. Forum Shopping as Retaliation in Disguise: How Nomadic Fulbe Condemn Retaliation and Forum Shopping, but Practise Them AnywayAlbert K. DrentChapter 10. Customary Law and the Joys of Statelessness: Somali Realities beyond Libertarian FantasiesGünther SchleeSECTION VI: TRAVELLING MODELS OF RETALIATION: POST-CONFLICT SCENARIOS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ON THE GROUNDChapter 11. Retaliation in Postwar Times: An Analysis of the Rhetoric and Practices of Retaliation in Bamyan, Afghanistan, 2009Friederike StahlmannChapter 12. The International Criminal Court Reparation System: Punishment, Retaliation, RestorationPietro SulloConclusion: Retaliation in Specific Spheres of EffectivenessBertram TurnerIndex