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Purify and Destroy

Name: Purify and Destroy
Brand: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
SKU: 02099316
Price: 33.09 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Jacques Semelin
ISBN: 9781849043939

Jacques Semelin

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 02099316

Publishers C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, January 2014

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How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, Purify and Destroy demonstrates that it is indeed possible to compare the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Hercegovina while respecting the specificities of each. Based on the essential distinction between massacre and genocide, Purify and Destroy identifies the main steps of a general process of destruction, rational and irrational, born of what Semelin terms 'delusional rationality', responding to fears, resentments and utopias, and re-modelling the social body by eliminating 'the enemy'. The main stages that can lead to a genocidal process, with ordinary people becoming perpetrators, are also identified.