This book presents new conceptual and theoretical approaches to violence studies. As the first research anthology to examine violating interpersonal, institutional and ideological practices as both gendered and affective processes, it raises novel questions and offers insights for understanding and resolving social and cultural problems related to violence and its prevention. The book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on various forms and intersections of different types of violence. The research ranges from the early modern era to the present day in Europe, US, Africa and Australia, representing disciplines such as gender studies, history, literature, linguistics, media and cultural studies, psychology, social psychology, social work, social policy, sociology and environmental humanities. With its integrative approach, the book proposes new ideas and tools for academics and practitioners to improve their theoretical and practical understandings of these phenomena as a source of multidimensional inequality in a globalized world.

Marita Husso is Associate Professor of Social Policy at Tampere University, Finland. She is the PI for the ERASE GBV EU project and the first editor of Interpersonal Violence: Differences and Connections (Routledge 2017). Her research focuses on interpersonal violence, welfare services, care work, social theory and gendered agency.

Sanna Karkulehto is Professor of Literature at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her most recent books include co-edited anthologies Sukupuoli ja väkivalta: lukemisen etiikkaa ja politiikkaa (Gender and Violence: Ethics and Politics of Reading, SKS 2017) and Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture (Routledge 2019).

Tuija Saresma is Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Contemporary Culture, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has published widely on effects, anti-feminism, hate speech, masculinity, and populism, including a co-edited open access volume Populism on the Loose (Nykykulttuuri, 2018).

Aarno Laitila is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His expertise includes psychotherapeutic processes especially with families, risks of social exclusion in childhood and domestic violence. He has participated in the development of The Jyväskylä Group Model from the very beginning of the program.