Genocidal nightmares : narratives of insecurity and the logic of mass atrocities /

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"This book offers a novel and productive explanation of why 'ordinary' people can be moved to engage in destructive mass violence (or terrorism and the abuse of rights), often in large numbers and in unexpected ways. Its argument is that narratives of insecurity (powerful horror stori...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: El-Affendi, Abdelwahab (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Temas:
Genocide > Causes.
Atrocities > Causes.
Violence > Social aspects.
Genocide > Causes > Case studies.
Atrocities > Causes > Case studies.
Violence > Social aspects > Case studies.
Atrocités > Causes.
Violence > Aspect social.
Atrocités > Causes > Études de cas.
Violence > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Terrorism, armed struggle.
Genocide & ethnic cleansing.
International relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Peace.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > International Security.
HISTORY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Violence > Social aspects
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover ; Contents; Preface; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Narrating the Precariousness of Human Decency; 2 Killer Narratives: Collective Nightmares and the Construction of Narrative Communities of Insecurity; 3 Imagining Nationhood, Framing Postcoloniality: Narrativizing Nigeria through the Kinesis of (Hi)Story; 4 Sudanese Stories: Narratives of Grievance, Distrust and Fatalism in Recurrent Violence; 5 General Elections and Narratives of Violent Conflict: The Land Question and Civic Competence in Kenya; 6 The Violence of Security, Lethal Representations and Hindu Nationalism in India.
  • 7 Memories of Victimhood in Serbia and Croatia from the 1980s to the Disintegration of Yugoslavia8 Insecurity, Victimhood, Self and Other: The Case of Israel and Palestine; 9 Resistance Narratives: Palestinian Women, Islam and Insecurity; 10 The State and Intergroup Violence: The Case of Modern Iraq; 11 Islamophobia as a Securitization Narrative: The Exclusionary Logic of Imperial Geopolitics; 12 Killer Narratives in Western Popular Culture: Telling it as it is Not; Concluding Remarks; Authors' Biographies; Index.

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