Creating destruction : constructing images of violence and genocide / / edited by Nancy Billias and Leonhard Praeg.

This volume offers new and fascinating insights into some of the most urgent and relevant dimensions of violence in our time. Specialists from a broad range of disciplines explore some of the reasons and ways in which humans choose to harm one another. The two sections of the book engage a common th...

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Superior document:At the interface : probing the boundaries. Violence and hostility ; v. 75
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 75.
Physical Description:1 online resource (217 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Summary:This volume offers new and fascinating insights into some of the most urgent and relevant dimensions of violence in our time. Specialists from a broad range of disciplines explore some of the reasons and ways in which humans choose to harm one another. The two sections of the book engage a common theme, namely how ideological constructions influence, facilitate, and shape the understanding of our own involvement in violence. Whilst the first section focuses on one specific form of violence, namely genocide, the second explores our construction of violent images: verbally, visually, aurally, legally, socially, imaginally. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the multi-faceted and complex dimensions of violence in our contemporary, global world.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1283162237
9786613162236
9401200386
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Nancy Billias and Leonhard Praeg.