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Conditions of Violence
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Christian Gerlach
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Christian Gerlach, University of Bern, Switzerland.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Abbreviations
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1 Introduction
1 - Part I: Mass Violence as Social Interaction
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2 Festive Days of Killing: Enacting a New Social Order in Rwanda, 1994
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3 Sounds of a Massacre: Chuknagar, East Pakistan, 1971
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4 Crowd Violence in East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1971–1972
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5 Narratives of Suffering: Soviet Movies About World War II
111 - Part II: Conditions of Violence
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6 Famines and Imperialism: For a Different History of World War II
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7 COVID-19 as Mass Violence
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8 Conclusion
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Acknowledgments
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
November 4, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783111568737
Hardcover published on:
November 4, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111567266
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
7
Main content:
289
Tables:
1
Audience(s) for this book
Academics in history, sociology, political science, genocide studies, international relations; and general audiences.
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
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