Rhetoric of Genocide - Death As a Text

Informationen zum Autor By Ben Voth Klappentext Genocide represents one of the deadliest scourges of the human experience. Communication practices provide the key missing ingredient toward preventing and ending this intensely symbolic activity. The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make this tragedy probable, and how a greater social ethic for communication openness repels and ends this great evil. Careful analysis of practical historical figures, such as the great debater James Farmer Jr., along with empirical policy successes in places such as Liberia provide a communication-based template for ridding the world of genocide in the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung Through the careful analysis of historical figures and empirical policy successes! The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make the tragedy of genocide probable and how a greater social ethic for communication openness repels and ends this great evil. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. The Role of Rhetoric and Communication in Genocide2. State Killings as Public Argument3. Discursive Complexity as a Communication Based Moral and Ethical Framework4. The Cell Phone versus the AK-475. The Genocidaire: The Perpetrator6. Christianity as a Critical Methodology for Moral Action7. Islam and the Rhetorical Construct of Islamophobia8. Global Anti-Semitism: The Persistent Genocidal Trope9. James Farmer: A Model for Human Freedom10. Gendercide: Sex Selection Abortion 11. Giving War a Chance: Critical Theory and Genocide12. Winning Wars against Genocide13. Conclusion: A World without GenocideAppendix: Student Essay: Shia Islam

Product details

• Authors: Ben Voth, Voth Ben
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2014
• EAN: 9780739182055
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8205-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Lexington Studies in Political Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution