| Summary: | <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana;">&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal"><p class="MsoNormal">A triangular reconstruction of the social dynamics of violence offers a means to bridge the gap between research on the micro- and meso-level dynamics of violent&nbsp;interaction on the one hand, and theories of power and domination on the other. The origins of this approach are found in the phenomenological programme&nbsp;of social science violence research formulated by German sociologists in the 1990s (Sofsky, von Trotha, Nedelmann, and others). Reconsidering their&nbsp;arguments in the framework of social constructivism, this article reconstructs violence as a triangular process evolving between &ldquo;performer&rdquo;, &ldquo;target&rdquo; and &ldquo;observer&rdquo;.&nbsp;Disentangling the dimensions of the somatic and the social shows, however, that these are not the fixed roles of agents, but changeable modes of experiencing&nbsp;violence. Violent interaction uses the suffering body to stage a positional asymmetry, i.e. a distinction between strength and weakness, between&nbsp;above and below, which can be exploited for the production and reproduction of social order.</p></p><p>&nbsp;</p>
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