Political crime and the memory of loss / John Borneman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borneman, John, 1952-

Series:

New anthropologies of Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political anthropology--Case studies.

Political anthropology.

Political crimes and offenses--Case studies.

Political crimes and offenses.

Government accountability.

Loss (Psychology).

Democratization.

Democratization--Case studies.

Loss (Psychology)--Case studies.

Government accountability--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 243 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Loss is a fundamental human condition that often leads both individualsand groups to seek redress in the form of violence. But are there possible modes ofredress to reckon with loss that might lead to a departure from the violence ofcollective and individual revenge? This book focuses on the redress of politicalcrime in Germany and Lebanon, extending its analysis to questions of accountabilityand democratization in the United States and elsewhere. To understand the proposedmodes of redress, John Borneman links the way the actors define their injuries tothe cultural forms of redress these injuries assume and to the social contexts inwhich they are open to refiguring. Borneman theorizes modes of accountability, themeaning of "regime change" and the American occupation of Iraq, and the mechanismsof democratic authority in Europe and North America.

Contents:

Modes of accountability: events of closure, rites of repetition

On money and the memory of loss

Public apologies, dignity, and performative redress

Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing: listening, retribution, affiliation

The state of war crimes following the Israel-Hezbollah War

Terror compassion, and the limits of identification: counter-transference and rites of commemoration in Lebanon

Responsibility after military intervention: what is regime change? What is occupation?

Does the United States want democratization in Iraq? Anthropological reflections on the export of political form

The external ascription of defeat and collective punishment

What do election rituals mean? Representation, sacrifice, and cynical reason

Politics without a head: is the love parade a new form of political identification? Is the United States Europe's other?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0253223512

9780253356895

025335689X

9780253223517

OCLC:

707212799

Publisher Number:

99945576931