Show Time - The Logic and Power of Violent Display

"Analyzes the political violence in Rwanda alongside mass murder in Bosnia and the lynching of African Americans in the United States during the Jim Crow era to show how violent acts have been 'choreographed' not only to damage and kill victims but also to make an impact on observers, neighbors, and the larger society"--

List of contents

Introduction

1. Fixations: The Making and Unmaking of Categories

2. Rehearsal

3. Main Attraction

4. Intermission

5. Sideshow

6. Encore

7. Fictions: The Making and Unmaking of Boundaries

Epilogue

About the author

Lee Ann Fujii was associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is author of Killing Neighbors and Interviewing in Social Science Research.

Martha Finnemore is University Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.

Elisabeth Jean Wood is the Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Political Science, International and Area Studies at Yale University.

Product details

• Authors: Lee Ann Fujii
• Assisted by: Martha Finnemore (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781501758546
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-5854-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries