| The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: From Terror to Trauma Contributor(s): Humphrey, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415868289 ISBN-13: 9780415868280 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society - Political Science |
| Dewey: 303.62 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.61 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
