RT Book
T1 Show time: the logic and power of violent display
A1 Fujii, Lee Ann 1962-2018
A2 Finnemore, Martha 1959-
A2 Wood, Elisabeth Jean 1957-
LA English
PP Ithaca New York London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1742313744
AB 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.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201-212, Register
CN HM1121
SN 9781501758546
K1 Violence : Social aspects : History : 20th century
K1 Violence : Psychological aspects : History : 20th century
K1 Political Violence : Social aspects : Rwanda : History : 20th century
K1 Genocide : Social aspects : Rwanda : History : 20th century
K1 Massacres : Social aspects : Bosnia and Herzegovina : History : 20th century
K1 Political Violence : Social aspects : Bosnia and Herzegovina : History : 20th century
K1 Lynching : Social aspects : Maryland : History : 20th century
K1 Bosnienkrieg : Massaker : Völkermord in Ruanda
K1 Gruppenidentität : Machtstruktur : USA : Schwarze : Lynchjustiz : Gruppenidentität : Machtstruktur : Geschichte 1933