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Global Lynching and Collective Violence
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Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet--to South Africa, with its notorious history of necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, the merging of state-sponsored and local collective violence during the Nanking Massacre, and the ways public anger and lynching in India relate to identity, autonomy, and territory. Contributors: Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, and Nicholas Rush Smith.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780252040801 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
Pub date: | 10 Feb 2017 |
DEWEY: | 364.134 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 240 |
Weight: | 454g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 23mm |