Conditions of Violence - Hardcover

Gerlach, Christian

 
9783111567266: Conditions of Violence
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3111567265 ISBN 13: 9783111567266
Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, this book presents understudied agents, aims and practices of direct violence and ways of action of those under persecution. Sound history – examining the noises of mass violence and persecution – is particularly telling about such practices. This volume shows that violence can become socially hegemonic, and some people claim a freedom to kill as a political right. To scrutinize indirect violence, which is often imperialist in character and claims many victims, the book proposes the concept of conditions of violence. These conditions are produced by definable groups of actors and foreseeably harm definable groups (which differs from the anonymous and static ‘structural violence’). This is exemplified in a case study concerning famines in World War II and another on COVID-19 as mass violence. Less global in character, other case studies in this volume deal with Rwanda, Bangladesh/East Pakistan and the Soviet Union.

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Christian Gerlach, University of Bern, Switzerland.

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Verlag
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3111567265
ISBN 13 
9783111567266
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
296
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