The Macabresque: Human Violation and Hate in Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Enemy-Making by Weisband, Edward - 2017-11-02

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Oxford University Press. Hardcover. New. 9x6x1. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Oxford Univ Pr, 2017. Hardcover. New. 464 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches.

Hardback. New. Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. But the question remains, if the main goal is death, then why is torture necessary? This book argues that genocide and mass atrocity are committed not as an end in themselves but as a means to pursue sustained and systemic torture - the spectacle of violence - against its victims. Extermination is not the only, or even the primary, goal of genocidal campaigns. In The Macabresque, Edward Weisband looks at different episodes of mass violence (Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Holocaust, post-Ottoman Turkey, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia, among other instances) to consider why different methods of violence were used in each and how they related to the particular cultural milieu in which they were perpetrated. He asserts that it is not accidental that certain images capture our memory as emblematic of specific genocides or mass atrocities (the… Read More

Oxford Univ Pr, 2017. Hardcover. New. 464 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches.