The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation

From Terror to Trauma

Michael Humphrey author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:21st Mar '02

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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.

' ... its great achievement is that it confronts the enormous difficulties of rendering moral arguments in this changed scenario of politics and warfare or rather politics as warfare.' - The Australian Journal of Anthropology

ISBN: 9780415274135

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Weight: 408g

192 pages