Purify and destroy : the political uses of massacre and genocide
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Purify and destroy : the political uses of massacre and genocide
（The CERI series in comparative politics and international studies / [edited by] Jean-François Bayart and Christophe Jaffrelot）
Hurst & Company, c2007
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Purifier et détruire : usages politiques des massacres et génocides
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"First published in France in October 2005 by Editions du Seuil, Paris, as Purifier et détruire : usages politiques des massacres et génocides."--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 384-391
Includes indexes
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How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, "Purify and Destroy" demonstrates that it is indeed possible to compare the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Hercegovina while respecting the specificities of each. Based on the essential distinction between massacre and genocide, "Purify and Destroy" identifies the main steps of a general process of destruction, rational and irrational, born of what Semelin terms 'delusional rationality', responding to fears, resentments and utopias, and re-modelling the social body by eliminating 'the enemy'. The main stages that can lead to a genocidal process, with ordinary people becoming perpetrators, are also identified.
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