Purify and Destroy

Name: Purify and Destroy
Brand: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
SKU: 9781849043939
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Автор: Jacques Semelin

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

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How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic clean...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Jacques Semelin

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2014

страници

400

EAN

9781849043939

ISBN

1849043930

Enbook ID

02099316

Издател

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Теглоt

574

Размери

138 x 216 x 27

Пълно описание

How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, Purify and Destroy demonstrates that it is indeed possible to compare the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Hercegovina while respecting the specificities of each. Based on the essential distinction between massacre and genocide, Purify and Destroy identifies the main steps of a general process of destruction, rational and irrational, born of what Semelin terms 'delusional rationality', responding to fears, resentments and utopias, and re-modelling the social body by eliminating 'the enemy'. The main stages that can lead to a genocidal process, with ordinary people becoming perpetrators, are also identified.

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