{"product_id":"the-macabresque-human-violation-and-hate-in-genocide-mass-atrocity-and-enemy-making-9780190677886","title":"The Macabresque: Human Violation and Hate in Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Enemy-Making","description":"Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. But the question remains, if the main goal is death, then why is torture necessary? This book argues that genocide and mass atrocity are committed\u003cbr\u003enot as an end in themselves but as a means to pursue sustained and systemic torture -- the spectacle of violence -- against its victims. Extermination is not the only, or even the primary, goal of genocidal campaigns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Macabresque\u003c\/em\u003e, Edward Weisband looks at different episodes of mass violence (Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Holocaust, post-Ottoman Turkey, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia, among other instances) to consider why different methods of violence were used in each and how they related to the\u003cbr\u003eparticular cultural milieu in which they were perpetrated. He asserts that it is not accidental that certain images capture our memory as emblematic of specific genocides or mass atrocities (the death marches of the Armenian genocide, mass starvation in the Ukraine, the killing apparatus and\u003cbr\u003elaboratories of the Holocaust, the killing fields of Cambodia) because such violence assumes a kind of style each time and place it arises. Weisband looks at these variations in terms of their aesthetic or dramaturgical style, or what he calls the macabresque. The macabresque is ever present in\u003cbr\u003egenocide and mass atrocity across time, place and episode. Beyond the horrors of lethality, it is the defining feature of concentration and\/or death camps, detention centers, prisons, ghettos, killing fields, and the houses, schools and hospitals converted into hubs for torture. Macabresque\u003cbr\u003edramaturgy also assumes many aesthetic forms, all designed to inflict hideous pain and humiliating punishments, sometimes in controlled environments, but also during frenzied moments of staged public horror. These kinds of performative violations permit perpetrators to revel in their absolute power\u003cbr\u003ebut simultaneously to project hatred, revenge and revulsion onto victims, who embody the shame, humiliation and loss felt by their torturers. By understanding how and why mass violence occurs and the reasons for its variations, \u003cem\u003eThe Macabresque\u003c\/em\u003e aims to explain why so many seemingly normal or\u003cbr\u003eordinary people participate in mass atrocity across cultures and why such egregious violence occurs repeatedly through history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Weisband\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190677886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward Weisband\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech. He is the author of ten books, including \u003cem\u003eTurkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945, Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation States, Nations and Nationalities, Global\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eAccountabilities, Secrecy and Foreign Policy, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWorld Politics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929216729203,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b32a8aa6-7a6a-4117-b4ee-7e9acf3e10ec.jpg?v=1647611717","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-macabresque-human-violation-and-hate-in-genocide-mass-atrocity-and-enemy-making-9780190677886","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}