397691238

The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation : From Terror to Trauma

Humphrey, Michael [Verfasser]

1st ed.

Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis, 2013

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (192 pages)

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources

978-0-203-36164-1 ; 978-0-415-27413-5

MD 8920

 

Politik  Gewalt  Politische Verfolgung  Versöhnung  Wahrheitskommission  Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit  Kriegsverbrechen  Bürgerkrieg  Krieg  Trauma  Opfer, Religion 

The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. It explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product: suffering, is used to try to remake the social world. Humphrey considers both the unmaking of the world through torture, war, urbicide and ethnic cleansing and the resultant remaking of the world through testimony and witnessing in the forums of truth commissions and trials. The discussion thus moves from terror to trauma.