Genocide as Social Practice
Book description
Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political opponents between 1976 and 1983 and those pursued by…
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If you have ever wondered what personal relationships have to do with war, read Genocide as a Social Practice by Daniel Feierstein.
This author explains the social mechanics of genocide by comparing various cases. He argues genocide doesn’t just destroy human bodies, it destroys relationships as a means to the ultimate goal of social reorganization. This is one of very few books I brought with me during my fieldwork in Ukraine, where it accompanied me on cross-country train travel.
As I argue in my book, and like genocide in other places, Ukrainian society is being reconfigured in part through loss…
From Greta's list on the connection between personal relationships.
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