| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Introduction -- An unimaginable and uncharacteristic act / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 2 The emergence of the genocidal context / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 3 The genocidal context / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 4 Propaganda -- Communicating the moral context / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 5 Who kills? / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 6 Deciding to kill / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 7 Killing / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 8 Rationalizing killing / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 9 Coping with killing / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 10 After genocide I -- Memory, trauma, and rehabilitation / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 11 After genocide II -- Justice / Kjell Anderson -- chapter 12 Conclusion -- Killing without consequence? / Kjell Anderson |
| Summary |
"Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse, this book offers an in-depth explanation for the perpetration of genocide. It is the first comparative criminological treatment of genocide drawn from original field research, based substantially on the author's interviews with perpetrators and victims of genocide and mass atrocities, combined with wide-ranging secondary and archival sources. Topics covered include: perpetration in organizations, genocidal propaganda, the characteristics of perpetrators, decision-making in genocide, genocidal mobilisation, coping with killing, perpetrator memory and trauma, moral rationalization, and transitional justice. An interdisciplinary and comparative analysis, this book utilises scientific methods with the objective of gaining some degree of insight into the causes of genocide and genocide perpetration. It is argued that genocide is more than a mere intellectual abstraction - it is a crime with real consequences and real victims. Abstraction and objectivity may be intellectual ideals but they are not ideally humane; genocide is ultimately about the destruction of humanity. Thus, this book avoids presenting an overly abstract image of genocide, but rather grounds its analysis in interviews with victims and perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Bosnia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Iraq. This book will be highly useful to students and scholars with an interest in genocide and the causes of mass violence. It will also concern policy-makers engaged with the issues of genocide and conflict prevention."--Provided by publisher |
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Genocide -- Research
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Genocide -- Case studies
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Mass murderers -- Research
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Mass murderers -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Genocide
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Genocide -- Research
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Mass murderers
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315626239 |
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1315626233 |
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