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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-168) and index
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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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