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Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide - Softcover

Semelin, Jacques

 
9781849043939: Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1849043930 ISBN 13: 9781849043939
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jacques Semelin is professor of political science and research director at CERI-CNRS in Paris. After having studied civil resistance within Nazi Europe, he developed comparative genocide research and is now exploring processes of reconciliation and prevention. His previously published book in English is Unarmed Against Hitler: Civil Resistance in Europe, 1939-1943, and he is founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence.

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Verlag
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1849043930
ISBN 13 
9781849043939
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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