Becoming Evil How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing

Name: Becoming Evil How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing
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ISBN: 9780195314564

ISBN-10: 0195314565

ISBN-13: 9780195314564

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: James E. Waller

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The first edition of Becoming Evil spoke unforgettably to a world shell-shocked by 9/11 that faced a new war on terror against members of an Axis of Evil. With this second edition, James Waller brings us up to date on some of the horrific events he used in the first edition to illustrate his theory of extraordinary human evil, particularly those from the perennially troubled Balkans and Africa, pointing out steps taken both forward and back. Nearly a third of the references are new, reflecting the rapid pace of scholarship in Holocaust and genocide studies, and the issue of gender now occupies a prominent place in the discussion of the social construction of cruelty. Waller also offers a…

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List price: $38.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.61" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Foreword to the Second Edition



Foreword to the First Edition




What are the Origins of Extraordinary Human Evil?


Introduction: A Place Called Mauthausen



The Nature of Extraordinary Human Evil


"Nits Make Lice"



Killers of Conviction: Groups, Ideology, and Extraordinary Human Evil


Dovey's Story



The "Mad Nazi": Psychopathology, Personality, and Extraordinary Human Evil


The Massacre at Babi Yar



The Dead End of Demonization


The Invasion of Dili



How Do Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing?



Beyond Demonization: A Model of How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing


The Tonle Sap Massacre



Cultural Construction of Worldview: "Who Are the Killers?


Death of a Guatemalan Village



Psychological Construction of the "Other": Social Death of the Victims


The Church of Ntarama



Social Construction of Cruelty: The Power of the Situation


The "Safe Area" of Srebrenica



What Have We Learned, and Why Does It Matter?



Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered from Extraordinary Human Evil?


Postscript: Past as Present


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index