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Violence Workers Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities

Huggins, Martha K. Haritos-Fatouros Mika Zimbardo Philip G.
Heftet / 2002 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780520234475
Publisert
2002-11-21
Utgiver
University of California Press; University of California Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Huggins, Martha K.
Haritos-Fatouros Mika
Zimbardo Philip G.

Om bidragsyterne

Martha K. Huggins is Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology at Union College. Her book Political Policing (1998) won two awards. Mika Haritos-Fatouros is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and author of the forthcoming title, The Psychological Origins of Institutionalized Torture (2003). Philip G. Zimbardo is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, author of several books, and 2002 President of the American Psychological Association.

Violence Workers Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities

Huggins, Martha K. Haritos-Fatouros Mika Zimbardo Philip G.
Heftet / 2002 / Engelsk
Huggins, Martha K. Haritos-Fatouros Mika Zimbardo Philip G.
Heftet / 2002 / Engelsk
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"A groundbreaking work.... Its conclusions allow us to understand how state-sponsored violence is a social illness, and how easily moral boundaries can be destroyed.... Our lesson is to grasp carefully how the technique of transforming individuals into evildoers is a highly rational exercise of constructed hatred, the isolation of individuals, and the blurring of the border between duty and cruelty."-Maria Pia Lara, editor of Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives "It's rare enough that people study torturers. It's very dangerous fieldwork, demoralizing material to ponder over, and intellectually hazardous to put it together coherently. These authors do better than this: they come back with a book well worth thinking about. Thinking about torture these days is something we do less and less; one can only hope this book will be an antidote to so much thoughtlessness."-Darius Rejali, author of Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran

Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds--on them, on their victims, and on society? What memories of their atrocities do they admit and which become public history?
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Of the 23 Brazilian policemen interviewed in-depth for this study, 14 were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. They help answer questions that haunt today's world on how ordinary men are transformed into state torturers.
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List of Illustrations Explanation of Illustrations List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Violent Lives Chapter 2: Reconstructing Atrocity Chapter 3: Locating Torturers and Murderers Chapter 4: Deposing Atrocity and Managing Secrecy Chapter 5: Biography Intersects History Chapter 6: Personalistic Masculinity Chapter 7: Bureaucratizing Masculinities Chapter 8: Blended Masculinity Chapter 9: Shaping Identities and Obedience: A Murderous Dynamic Chapter 10: Secret and Insular Worlds of Serial Torturers and Executioners Chapter 11: Moral Universe of Torturers and Murderers Chapter 12: Hung Out to Dry Conclusion: The Alchemy of Torture and Execution: Transforming Ordinary Men into Violence Perpetrators
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"A groundbreaking work. Its conclusions allow us to understand how state-sponsored violence is a social illness, and how easily moral boundaries can be destroyed. Our lesson is to grasp carefully how the technique of transforming individuals into evildoers is a highly rational exercise of constructed hatred, the isolation of individuals, and the blurring of the border between duty and cruelty."—María Pía Lara, editor of Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives

"It's rare enough that people study torturers. It's very dangerous fieldwork, demoralizing material to ponder over, and intellectually hazardous to put it together coherently. These authors do better than this: they come back with a book well worth thinking about. Thinking about torture these days is something we do less and less; one can only hope this book will be an antidote to so much thoughtlessness."—Darius Rejali, author of Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran

"The volume disturbingly reminds us that the problem of impunity is not just one that concerns the direct torturers and murderers but also all those who are complicit in the system of impunity."—Sir Nigel Rodley, United Nations Commission on Human Rights
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"A groundbreaking work.... Its conclusions allow us to understand how state-sponsored violence is a social illness, and how easily moral boundaries can be destroyed.... Our lesson is to grasp carefully how the technique of transforming individuals into evildoers is a highly rational exercise of constructed hatred, the isolation of individuals, and the blurring of the border between duty and cruelty."-Maria Pia Lara, editor of Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives "It's rare enough that people study torturers. It's very dangerous fieldwork, demoralizing material to ponder over, and intellectually hazardous to put it together coherently. These authors do better than this: they come back with a book well worth thinking about. Thinking about torture these days is something we do less and less; one can only hope this book will be an antidote to so much thoughtlessness."-Darius Rejali, author of Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran

Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds--on them, on their victims, and on society? What memories of their atrocities do they admit and which become public history?
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Of the 23 Brazilian policemen interviewed in-depth for this study, 14 were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. They help answer questions that haunt today's world on how ordinary men are transformed into state torturers.
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List of Illustrations Explanation of Illustrations List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Violent Lives Chapter 2: Reconstructing Atrocity Chapter 3: Locating Torturers and Murderers Chapter 4: Deposing Atrocity and Managing Secrecy Chapter 5: Biography Intersects History Chapter 6: Personalistic Masculinity Chapter 7: Bureaucratizing Masculinities Chapter 8: Blended Masculinity Chapter 9: Shaping Identities and Obedience: A Murderous Dynamic Chapter 10: Secret and Insular Worlds of Serial Torturers and Executioners Chapter 11: Moral Universe of Torturers and Murderers Chapter 12: Hung Out to Dry Conclusion: The Alchemy of Torture and Execution: Transforming Ordinary Men into Violence Perpetrators
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"A groundbreaking work. Its conclusions allow us to understand how state-sponsored violence is a social illness, and how easily moral boundaries can be destroyed. Our lesson is to grasp carefully how the technique of transforming individuals into evildoers is a highly rational exercise of constructed hatred, the isolation of individuals, and the blurring of the border between duty and cruelty."—María Pía Lara, editor of Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives

"It's rare enough that people study torturers. It's very dangerous fieldwork, demoralizing material to ponder over, and intellectually hazardous to put it together coherently. These authors do better than this: they come back with a book well worth thinking about. Thinking about torture these days is something we do less and less; one can only hope this book will be an antidote to so much thoughtlessness."—Darius Rejali, author of Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran

"The volume disturbingly reminds us that the problem of impunity is not just one that concerns the direct torturers and murderers but also all those who are complicit in the system of impunity."—Sir Nigel Rodley, United Nations Commission on Human Rights
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520234475
Publisert
2002-11-21
Utgiver
University of California Press; University of California Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Huggins, Martha K.
Haritos-Fatouros Mika
Zimbardo Philip G.

Om bidragsyterne

Martha K. Huggins is Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology at Union College. Her book Political Policing (1998) won two awards. Mika Haritos-Fatouros is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and author of the forthcoming title, The Psychological Origins of Institutionalized Torture (2003). Philip G. Zimbardo is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, author of several books, and 2002 President of the American Psychological Association.

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