ISBN:
9789401200387
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 212 pages)
Series Statement:
At the interface : probing the boundaries. Violence and hostility ; v. 75
Series Statement:
At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
Series Statement:
Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004357914.
Parallel Title:
Print version: Creating destruction.
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Violence.
;
Genocide.
;
Genocide.
;
Violence.
Abstract:
This volume offers new and fascinating insights into some of the most urgent and relevant dimensions of violence in our time. Specialists from a broad range of disciplines explore some of the reasons and ways in which humans choose to harm one another. The two sections of the book engage a common theme, namely how ideological constructions influence, facilitate, and shape the understanding of our own involvement in violence. Whilst the first section focuses on one specific form of violence, namely genocide, the second explores our construction of violent images: verbally, visually, aurally, legally, socially, imaginally. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the multi-faceted and complex dimensions of violence in our contemporary, global world.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
,
The Uses of Adversaries: Normalising Violence through the Construction of the Other /
,
The Ideological Model of War: Discursive Mediations of the Self and the Enemy /
,
Beast, Vermin, Insect - Hate Media and the Construction of the Enemy: The Case of Rwanda, 1990 - 1994 /
,
Genocide, or the Aporia of Collective Violence /
,
Sovereignty, Law and Australia's Sacred Men /
,
A Community in Constant Transition: Propagating a Yield of Conflict and Violence? /
,
Abu Ghraib Abuse Images: From Perverse War Trophies through Internet Based War Porn to Artistic Representations and Beyond /
,
Sublime Violations: Trauma Literature and the Search for Transcendence through Violence /
,
Digital Worlds and the Sound of Violence /
,
Single Girls and Serial Killers: Sex, Slaughter and the City /
,
Vulnerable Embodiments: A Phenomenological Approach to the Many Faces of Violence /
,
Notes on Contributors.
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