The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: From Terror to Trauma (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) - Softcover

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Humphrey, Michael

 
9780415868280: The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: From Terror to Trauma (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
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ISBN 10: 0415868289 ISBN 13: 9780415868280
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. It explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product: suffering, is used to try to remake the social world. Humphrey considers both the unmaking of the world through torture, war, urbicide and ethnic cleansing and the resultant remaking of the world through testimony and witnessing in the forums of truth commissions and trials. The discussion thus moves from terror to trauma.

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About the Author

Michael Humphrey is Associate Professor and Head of School at the School of Sociology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He has published widely on the themes of dispute resolution, ethnicity, Lebanese diaspora communities, Islamic movements, Middle East migration, globalisation, violence and national reconstruction. He is also the author of Islam, Multiculturalism & Transnationalism: From the Lebanese Diaspora.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415868289
ISBN 13 
9780415868280
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192

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