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Creating destruction : constructing images of violence and genocide /

This volume offers new and fascinating insights into some of the most urgent and relevant dimensions of violence in our time. Specialists from a broad range of disciplines explore some of the reasons and ways in which humans choose to harm one another. The two sections of the book engage a common th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Billias, Nancy, Praeg, Leonhard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 75.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume offers new and fascinating insights into some of the most urgent and relevant dimensions of violence in our time. Specialists from a broad range of disciplines explore some of the reasons and ways in which humans choose to harm one another. The two sections of the book engage a common theme, namely how ideological constructions influence, facilitate, and shape the understanding of our own involvement in violence. Whilst the first section focuses on one specific form of violence, namely genocide, the second explores our construction of violent images: verbally, visually, aurally, le.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 212 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789401200387
9401200386
1283162237
9781283162234
9786613162236
661316223X