Boundary-based violence protests threats to social arrangements built on those boundaries

Evidence

Violence thus doesn’t simply open up to allow the external in. It tears apart – skin, the psyche, space, society. In short, ways of being, ways of knowing, and ways of acting. And in this tearing apart it doesn’t simply rupture; it disrupts. It brings those affected up short. It redirects – not always an appealing condition. Though as emergency also often opens up possibility, is a possible site of emergence, so the forced disrupting that is the more or less immediate effect of violence can spin those affected into new directions, themselves sometimes debilitating but also possibly renewing. Violence can thus open up, or close down. And often it does both, even simultaneously. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1818 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Violent contention typically grows out of nonviolent claim-making. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 726; Entrepreneurship, polarization, and rising uncertainty drive violence escalation across a boundary — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 773; Counter-violence can prise open restrictive structures and create new possibilities (+2 more)

Related

• Violence disrupts and can both debilitate and renew its targets (similarity 0.85)
• Violence can both close down and open up possibility, even at once. (similarity 0.85)
• Violent contention typically grows out of nonviolent claim-making. (similarity 0.83)
• Entrepreneurship, polarization, and rising uncertainty drive violence escalation across a boundary (similarity 0.80)
• Containment violence and liberation counter-violence both operate through constraint (similarity 0.80)
• Violence leaves its object forcibly transformed, not merely injured physically. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Violence disrupts and can both debilitate and renew its targets #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1818
• Counter-violence can prise open restrictive structures and create new possibilities #complicates (0.78)