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

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.
Description
1 online resource (217 p.)

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Series
  • At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 75. [More in this series]
  • At the interface : probing the boundaries. Violence and hostility ; v. 75
Summary note
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.
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Language note
English
Contents
  • pt. 1. Constructing genocide
  • pt. 2. Construcing images of violence.
ISBN
  • 1-283-16223-7
  • 9786613162236
  • 94-012-0038-6
OCLC
  • 729167150
  • 742580539
Doi
  • 10.1163/9789401200387
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