Show Time : The Logic and Power of Violent Display

Lee Ann Fujii

ISBN 10: 1501758543 / ISBN 13: 9781501758546

Published by Cornell University Press Sep 2021, 2021

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Neuware - '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'--.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Show Time : The Logic and Power of Violent Display
• Publisher: Cornell University Press Sep 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501758543
• ISBN 13: 9781501758546
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 237W x 161H x 25D millimeters 237 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 532 grams

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Synopsis

In Show Time, Lee Ann Fujii asks why some perpetrators of political violence, from lynch mobs to genocidal killers, display their acts of violence so publicly and extravagantly. Closely examining three horrific and extreme episodes―the murder of a prominent Tutsi family amidst the genocide in Rwanda, the execution of Muslim men in a Serb-controlled village in Bosnia during the Balkan Wars, and the lynching of a twenty-two-year old Black farmhand on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1933―Fujii shows how "violent displays" are staged to not merely to kill those perceived to be enemies or threats, but also to affect and influence observers, neighbors, and the larger society.

Watching and participating in these violent displays profoundly transforms those involved, reinforcing political identities, social hierarchies, and power structures. Such public spectacles of violence also force members of the community to choose sides―openly show support for the goals of the violence, or risk becoming victims, themselves. Tracing the ways in which public displays of violence unfold, Show Time reveals how the perpetrators exploit the fluidity of social ties for their own ends.

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 the 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.