LEADER 04582nam 22006851 450 001 9910787805803321 005 20141222141233.0 010 $a1-5013-2023-8 010 $a1-62892-072-6 010 $a1-5013-0216-7 010 $a1-62892-075-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501302169 035 $a(CKB)2670000000573685 035 $a(EBL)1828747 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001369695 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12500832 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001369695 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11289984 035 $a(PQKB)10798865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1828747 035 $a(OCoLC)1167634715 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09258356 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000573685 100 $a20150326d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGenocidal nightmares $enarratives of insecurity and the logic of mass atrocities /$fedited by Abdelwahab El-Affendi 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-62892-071-8 311 $a1-322-24187-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and index. 327 $aPreface Foreword : Dr Francis Deng -- Chapter I: Introduction: Narrating the Precariousness of Human Decency / Abdelwahab El-Affendi -- Chapter II: Killer Narratives: Collective Nightmares and the Construction of Narrative Communities of Insecurity / Abdelwahab El-Affendi -- Chapter III: Imagining Nationhood, Framing Postcoloniality: Narrativising Nigeria Through the Kinesis Of (Hi)Story / James Tar Tsaaior -- Chapter IV: Sudanese Stories: Narratives of Grievance, Distrust and Fatalism in Recurrent Violence / Alex de Waal -- Chapter V: General Elections and Narratives of Violent Conflict: The Land Question and Civic Competence in Kenya / Kenneth Inyani Simala -- Chapter VI: The Violence of Security, Lethal Representations, and Hindu Nationalism in India / Dibyesh Anand -- Chapter VII: Memories of Victimhood in Serbia and Croatia from the 1980s to the Disintegration of Yugoslavia / Slobodan G. Markovich -- Chapter VIII: Insecurity, Victimhood, Self and Other: The Case of Israel and Palestine / Ilan Pappe -- Chapter IX: Resistance Narratives: Palestinian Women, Islam and Insecurity / Mari Holt -- Chapter X: State Insecurity and Intergroup Violence: The Case of Modern Iraq / Ali A. Allawi -- Chapter XI: Islamophobia as a Securitisation Narrative: The Exclusionary Logic of Imperial Geopolitics / Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed -- Chapter XII: Killer Narratives in Western Popular Culture / Anas El-Sheikh Ali -- Concluding Remarks -- Authors' Biographies. 330 $a"This book offers a novel and productive explanation of why 'ordinary' people can be moved to engage in destructive mass violence (or terrorism and the abuse of rights), often in large numbers and in unexpected ways. Its argument is that narratives of insecurity (powerful horror stories people tell and believe about their world and others) can easily make extreme acts appear acceptable, even necessary and heroic. As in action or horror movies, the script dictates how the 'hero' acts. The book provides theoretical justifications for this analysis, building on earlier studies but going beyond them in what amount to a breakthrough in mapping the context of mass violence. It backs its argument with a large number of case studies covering four continents, written by prominent scholars from the relevant countries or with deep knowledge of them. A substantial introduction by the UN's Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide demonstrates the policy relevance of this path-breaking work."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aAtrocities$xCauses$vCase studies 606 $aAtrocities$xCauses 606 $aGenocide$xCauses$vCase studies 606 $aGenocide$xCauses 606 $aViolence$xSocial aspects$vCase studies 606 $aViolence$xSocial aspects 606 $2Genocide & ethnic cleansing 615 0$aAtrocities$xCauses 615 0$aAtrocities$xCauses. 615 0$aGenocide$xCauses 615 0$aGenocide$xCauses. 615 0$aViolence$xSocial aspects 615 0$aViolence$xSocial aspects. 676 $a364.15/1 686 $aPOL034000$aPOL012000$aHIS000000$2bisacsh 702 $aEl-Affendi$b Abdelwahab 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787805803321 996 $aGenocidal nightmares$93674329 997 $aUNINA