Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. But if the main goal is death, why is torture necessary? By understanding how and why mass violence occurs and the reasons for its variations, The Macabresque aims to explain why so many seemingly normal or "ordinary" people participate in mass atrocity across cultures and why such egregious violence occursrepeatedly through history.
Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. But if the main goal is death, why is torture necessary? By understanding how and why mass violence occurs and the reasons for its variations, The Macabresque aims to explain why so many seemingly normal or "ordinary" people participate in mass atrocity across cultures and why such egregious violence occursrepeatedly through history.
Edward Weisband is the Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences at Virginia Tech. He is the author of ten books, including Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945, Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation States , Nations and Nationalities, Global Accountabilities, Secrecy and Foreign Policy, and World Politics.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Acknowledgments * Part I: The Macabresque of Human Violation * Introduction: Taking Performativity Seriously * 1: From Collective Violence to Human Violation: Dark Desires in Disorders of Will * Part II: On the "Normaility" of perpatrators: How We Know Them, How They Know Themselves * 2: Perpetrators Alone and Together: Analytical Perspectives, Methodological Critiques * 3: One Mind, Heart, and Spirit: Reductionist Traps in Psychosocial Theory * 4: The Modalities of Desire in Mimetic Rivalry: Sin, Sign and Symbol * 5: Human Development and the Political Subject: The Lacanian Scaffolding in Psycosocial Perspectives * 6: Perversity in the Performative: sadism and Shame in the Macabresque * Part III: Cultural Contexts: Case Studies of Performativity in the Macabresque * 7: The Lurid and Ludic in the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Oral Disciplines and Oedipal aggression in Mao's Re-education Camps * 8: Cultural Variations in the Macabresque: Variations of Human Violation in the Twentieth Century * 8.i: The Desert March of Young Turk Predatory Horror * 8.ii: Stalin's Ideological Purgatory * 8.iii: Hitler's Diabolical Laboratory * 8.iv: The Hell of Blood Trauma in the Days of Hutu Power * 8.v: The Confessional Archive and the Facial Aesthetics of Ângkar's Torture * 8.vi: The Junta's Neo-Inquisitional Operating Theatres * 8.vii: The Bosnian Shame Camps * Part IV: Politics of the Unreal * 9: On the Slippery Tropes of We-Ness: Reality and the Unreal in Social Fantasy and Political Ideology * 10: The Quest for the Never-Is: Legitimacy-Grounding as Enemy-Making * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Preface * Acknowledgments * Part I: The Macabresque of Human Violation * Introduction: Taking Performativity Seriously * 1: From Collective Violence to Human Violation: Dark Desires in Disorders of Will * Part II: On the "Normaility" of perpatrators: How We Know Them, How They Know Themselves * 2: Perpetrators Alone and Together: Analytical Perspectives, Methodological Critiques * 3: One Mind, Heart, and Spirit: Reductionist Traps in Psychosocial Theory * 4: The Modalities of Desire in Mimetic Rivalry: Sin, Sign and Symbol * 5: Human Development and the Political Subject: The Lacanian Scaffolding in Psycosocial Perspectives * 6: Perversity in the Performative: sadism and Shame in the Macabresque * Part III: Cultural Contexts: Case Studies of Performativity in the Macabresque * 7: The Lurid and Ludic in the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Oral Disciplines and Oedipal aggression in Mao's Re-education Camps * 8: Cultural Variations in the Macabresque: Variations of Human Violation in the Twentieth Century * 8.i: The Desert March of Young Turk Predatory Horror * 8.ii: Stalin's Ideological Purgatory * 8.iii: Hitler's Diabolical Laboratory * 8.iv: The Hell of Blood Trauma in the Days of Hutu Power * 8.v: The Confessional Archive and the Facial Aesthetics of Ângkar's Torture * 8.vi: The Junta's Neo-Inquisitional Operating Theatres * 8.vii: The Bosnian Shame Camps * Part IV: Politics of the Unreal * 9: On the Slippery Tropes of We-Ness: Reality and the Unreal in Social Fantasy and Political Ideology * 10: The Quest for the Never-Is: Legitimacy-Grounding as Enemy-Making * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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