Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics

Description

Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables About the authors Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: an introduction SECTION I Theorizing perpetrators 1 Thinking beyond perpetrators, bystanders, heroes: a typology of action in genocide 2 Violence as action 3 Theorizing ideological diversity in mass violence SECTION II Motivations and dynamics 4 Perpetrators? Political civil servants in the Third Reich 5 The normality of going to war: aspects of symbolic violence in participation and perpetration in civil war 6 “We no longer pay heed to humanitarian considerations”: narratives of perpetration in the Wehrmacht, 1941–44 7 Gender and genocide: assessing differential opportunity structures of perpetration in Rwanda 8 Perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict 9 Cross-border perpetrator recruitment in the Ivorian civil war: the motivations and experiences of young Burkinabe men in the Forces Nouvelles rebel movement 10 Judenjagd: reassessing the role of ordinary Poles as perpetrators in the Holocaust 11 Is a comparative theory of perpetrators possible? Index