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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Foreword by Stanley Hoffmann page
xii
Acknowledgements
xiv
INTRODUCTION: Understand?
1
Chapters
I. THE IMAGINARY CONSTRUCTS OF
SOCIAL DESTRUCTIVENESS
Unpromising avenues
10
The power of imaginary constructs
Destructive fantasies
17
Between imaginary ana real: the role of ideology
21
From the identity narrative to the figure of Traitor
22
The
stigmatisation
of minor differences
27
Figures of the enemy within
30
From the quest for purity to the figure of the Other in excess
33
Identitarian purity and political purity
38
From the security dilemma to the destruction of the enemy
41
Conspiracy and paranoia
43
Delusional rationality
45
Destroy Them to save Us
48
II. FROM INFLAMMATORY DISCOURSE
TO SACRIFICIAL VIOLENCE
The intellectual springboard
54
The creation of scientific myths
58
Warmongering
intelleđuab?
60
Reaching political legitimacy
62
Hitler s rise to power
63
Milosevic and the dream of a Greater Serbia
65
vii
viii CONTENTS
Kayibanda and the formation of a Rwandan state
66
Prophets of chaos
68
Feeding fear and resentment: the role of the media
72
The pernicious tree of propaganda
77
From the religious to the sacrificial
81
Germany: Dietrich Bonhoeffer s solitary crusade
82
The Orthodox Church and the Serbian martyr
85
The Rwandan Catholic Church: between support for
the regime and internal contradictions
87
The sacrificial regeneration of We
89
Societies torn between adhesion, consent and resistance
93
The spiral of silence
95
The breakdown of social relations
99
The role of the third party
102
III. INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT,
WAR AND THE MEDIA
A structure of political opportunities
108
Modern states and massacres
110
A legacy of ethnic violence
113
Massacres and population flows
115
State collapse and outbursts of extreme violence
118
Rwanda-Bumndv.false ethnic twins
120
Serbia/Croatia: a fratricidal duo
123
Nazi Germany
/
the Soviet Union: two totalitarianisms clash
124
The passivity of the international community
125
Spiffing into war
131
The politicisation of war
134
Conquering living space
136
War against civilians
138
Towards the destruction of the Inyenzi
139
Refusing the spiral of mass murder
142
The new universe of war
145
Telling the world: a last resort?
147
The extermination of the Jews: discovering the horror.
..
and then doing nothing about it
147
CONTENTS ix
Bosnia: knowing.
..
and pretending
152
Rwanda: knowing.
..
and leaving
156
The so-called CNN effect and state indifference
161
IV. THE DYNAMICS OF MASS MURDER
The decision-making process and the decision-makers
167
Nazi Germany: the pre-eminence of Hitler
168
Rwanda, a public call to genocide
171
Yugoslavia: the dismemberment of the federal system
YJĄ
Pinpointing THE
decisioni
177
The organisation of mass murder and the actors involved
182
Nazi Germany: ideological warriors
185
Rwanda: Going to work
186
Serbia: alternative armed forces
190
Organised practices and local initiatives
193
The symbol of Srebrenica
195
From collective indifference to popular participation
in massacres
198
The fate of the Jews: between hostility and indifference
199
Rwanda: towards mass involvement in mass murder
205
The autism of the Serbian population
213
•
Territorial defence
215
Ordinary rescuers
220
Resistance: the energy of despair
221
Morphologies of extreme violence
224
When the threatened state becomes the threatening state
225
From partial to total destruction
229
Mass murder technologies
233
V. THE VERTIGO OF IMPUNITY
Crossing the threshold into violence
240
Massacre, pillage, business
242
Socialising into violence
245
Becoming a killer on the battlefield
246
What do killers think about during the massaae?
248
Cognitive dissonance and rationalisations
252
Divine legitimation
255
χ
CONTENTS
The tipping mechanism
257
The
aime
of obedience
258
Group conformity
262
The dual learning process of massacre
266
The murdering self
267
Task specialisation and the professionalisation of slaughter
27 4
The killers profiles: revisiting the banality of evil
278
Ordinary executioners
279
The involvement of women and children
281
The ambiguity of evil
282
The banality of evil revisited
285
Sexual violence and other atrocities
289
A variety of indefinite interpretations
291
Rational choice?
293
Towards orgiastic violence
295
Delighting in cruelty
299
The abyss of the grey zone
304
VI. THE POLITICAL USES OF MASSACRE
AND GENOCIDE
Instrumentalisations of a word that is impossible to define?
310
Genodde : a legacy of international law
313
Pioneer studies in the social sciences
316
Distancing genocide studies from the frame of law
320
Massacre as unit of reference
322
Analysing destruction processes
324
Destroying to subjugate
327
From warfare to ruling over the population
328
Communist regimes: Reshaping the social body
330
The paradigm of Democratic Kampuchea
333
Destroying to eradicate
334
Surgical practices in politics
338
The Holocaust paradigm
340
Politicidal regimes?
343
From ethnic cleansing to genocide
345
Destroying to revolt
347
The rhetoric of terrorism
348
CONTENTS xi
The
11 September 2001
paradigm
352
Ordinary
candidates for sacrifice!
358
CONCLUSION: The Never Again refrain
362
Crisis prevention: arguments and illusions
363
An ethics of responsibility
369
The revenge of passions
373
APPENDIXES
376
A. Investigating a massacre
376
B. Comparing massacres
379
Bibliography
384
Notes
392
Name Index
434
Subject Index
441
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