States of denial knowing about atrocities and suffering.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge Polity press 2001Edition: ReprDescription: XVI, 344 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745616577
  • 0745623921
  • 9780745623924
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Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The elementary forms of denial -- 2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial -- 3. Denial at work: mechanisms and rhetorical devices -- 4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials -- 5. Blocking out the past: personal memories, public histories -- 6. Bystander states -- 7. Images of suffering -- 8. Appeals: outrage into action -- 9. Digging up graves, opening up wounds: acknowledging the past -- 10. Acknowledgement now -- 11. Towards cultures of denial?
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 118.984 ASE Available 2512803-20

Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-330) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The elementary forms of denial -- 2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial -- 3. Denial at work: mechanisms and rhetorical devices -- 4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials -- 5. Blocking out the past: personal memories, public histories -- 6. Bystander states -- 7. Images of suffering -- 8. Appeals: outrage into action -- 9. Digging up graves, opening up wounds: acknowledging the past -- 10. Acknowledgement now -- 11. Towards cultures of denial?