This book opens up a new way of thinking about how prejudice against the individual in social systems is accepted in political discourse to cast blame on -others-. It helps us to understand the current resurgence of social prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of scapegoating and the resulting violence. Hypocrisy and double standards are inherent in our social practices, thus this study takes account of conflicts between theory and practice, layers of implicit- and explicitness, pre- and unconscious experience and the power differentials that shape these constellations. The...

This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless manifestations. The essays encompass a wide range of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and geo-political areas. They describe how images and fragments of traumatic and violent scenarios are transported from one generation's unconscious to that of another, leading to cycles of repetition and retaliation, restricting the freedom to imagine alternatives and inhabit alternative positions. The authors all work within a psychosocial framework by unsettling the...