The politics of atrocity and reconciliation : from terror to trauma
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The politics of atrocity and reconciliation : from terror to trauma
(Routledge studies in social and political thought, 34)
Routledge, 2002
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-168) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Politics of atrocity
- Chapter 2 Horror, abjection and terror
- Chapter 3 The atrocity of torture
- Chapter 4 War, horrors, beliefs
- Chapter 5 Urbicide
- Chapter 6 Ethnic cleansing
- Chapter 7 Witnessing atrocity
- Chapter 8 Trauma, truth and reconciliation
- Chapter 9 Atrocity, trials and justice
- Chapter 10 Conclusion
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