Genocidal nightmares : narratives of insecurity and the logic of mass atrocities /: narratives of insecurity and the logic of mass atrocities. (2014 copyright 2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Abdelwahab El-Affendi.
• Editors: El-Affendi, Abdelwahab
• Contents: Preface Foreword:Dr Francis Deng Chapter I: Introduction: Narrating the Precariousness of Human Decency Abdelwahab El-Affendi Chapter II: Killer Narratives: Collective Nightmares and the Construction of Narrative Communities of Insecurity Abdelwahab El-Affendi Chapter III: Imagining Nationhood, Framing Postcoloniality: Narrativising Nigeria Through the Kinesis Of (Hi)Story James Tar Tsaaior Chapter IV: Sudanese Stories: Narratives of Grievance, Distrust and Fatalism in Recurrent Violence Alex de Waal Chapter V: General Elections and Narratives of Violent Conflict: The Land Question and Civic Competence in Kenya Kenneth Inyani Simala Chapter VI: The Violence of Security, Lethal Representations, and Hindu Nationalism in India Dibyesh Anand Chapter VII: Memories of Victimhood in Serbia and Croatia from the 1980s to the Disintegration of Yugoslavia Slobodan G. Markovich Chapter VIII: Insecurity, Victimhood, Self and Other: The Case of Israel and Palestine Ilan Pappe Chapter IX: Resistance Narratives: Palestinian Women, Islam and Insecurity Mari Holt Chapter X: State Insecurity and Intergroup Violence: The Case of Modern Iraq Ali A. Allawi Chapter XI: Islamophobia as a Securitisation Narrative: The Exclusionary Logic of Imperial Geopolitics Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Chapter XII: Killer Narratives in Western Popular Culture Anas S. Al-Shaikh-Ali Concluding Remarks Authors' Biographies.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 364.151; Terrorism, armed struggle; Genocide -- Causes; Atrocities -- Causes; Violence -- Social aspects; Genocide -- Causes -- Case studies; Atrocities -- Causes -- Case studies; Violence -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Genocide & ethnic cleansing; Political Science -- Political Freedom & Security -- International Security; History -- General; Political Science -- Peace; International relations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781628920734; 1628920734
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