Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics

ISBN-13: 9780367591489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Timothy Williams; Susanne Buckley-Zistel

Opis

As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetrator research by bringing together contributions from such diverse disciplines as political science, sociology, social psychology, history, anthropology and gender studies.

Recenzje

"In the end, though, Straus commends the book as a “wonderful, rich contribution to a research on perpetrators and the perpetration of violence” (p. 209). This reviewer agrees with his judgment." Björn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University

Spis treści

Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence– an Introduction  Section I: Theorising Perpetrators  1 Thinking beyond Perpetrators, Bystanders, Heroes: a Typology of Action in Genocide  2 Violence as Action  3 Theorizing Ideological Diversity in Mass Violence  Section II: Motivations and Dynamics  4 Perpetrators? Political Civil Servants in the Third Reich  5 The Normality of Going to War: Aspects of Symbolic Violence in Participation and Perpetration in Civil War  6 "We No Longer Pay Heed to Humanitarian Considerations": Narratives of Perpetration in the Wehrmacht, 1941-44  7 Gender and Genocide: Assessing Differential Opportunity Structures of Perpetration in Rwanda  8 Perpetrators of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict  9 Cross-Border Perpetrator Recruitment in the Ivorian Civil War: The Motivations and Experiences of Young Burkinable Men in the Forces Nouvelles Rebel Movement  10 Judenjagd: Reassessing the Role of Ordinary Poles as Perpetrators in the Holocaust  11 Is a Comparative Theory of Perpetrators Possible?

O autorze

Timothy Williams is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Conflict Studies at Marburg University, Germany.

Susanne Buckley-Zistel is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, Germany.