Creating Destruction: Constructing Images of Violence and Genocide (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 75)

Nancy Billias Leonhard Praeg

ISBN 10: 904203338X / ISBN 13: 9789042033382

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2011

About this Item

NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS.

Seller Inventory # ERICA829904203338X3

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Destruction: Constructing Images of Violence and Genocide (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 75)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 904203338X
• ISBN 13: 9789042033382
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

About this title

Synopsis

This volume offers new and fascinating insights into some of the most urgent and relevant dimensions of violence in our time. Specialists from a broad range of disciplines explore some of the reasons and ways in which humans choose to harm one another. The two sections of the book engage a common theme, namely how ideological constructions influence, facilitate, and shape the understanding of our own involvement in violence. Whilst the first section focuses on one specific form of violence, namely genocide, the second explores our construction of violent images: verbally, visually, aurally, legally, socially, imaginally. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the multi-faceted and complex dimensions of violence in our contemporary, global world.