Introduction : approaching perpetrators

Jessee, Erin (2015) Introduction : approaching perpetrators. Conflict and Society, 1. pp. 4-8. ISSN 2164-4543 (https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2015.010102)

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Abstract

The rationale for this special section of Conflict and Society lies in anthropology’s relatively recent and steadily growing application to the study of political violence in its various manifestations, from everyday instances of subtle structural violence to more overt cases of war and mass atrocities. In the late 1990s, Carolyn Nordstrom’s (1997) work among soldiers and ordinary civilians whose lives had been intimately affected by Mozambique’s civil war and Antonius Robben’s (1996) work among survivors and perpetrators of Argentina’s Dirty War enabled an important shift among ethnographers. Whereas in the past ethnographers typically focused on violence and warfare in substate and prestate societies, Nordstrom and Robben emphasized the foundations of political violence in complex state societies. Their work led to the emergence of a small cohort of ethnographers—among them Philippe Bourgois (2003), Nancy Scheper-Hughes (1997, 2002), and Neil Whitehead (2002, 2004)—specialized in what was soon termed “the ethnography of political violence”

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:60165
    Dates:
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    1 June 2015
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    Notes:This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedited version of an article published in Conflict & Society. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Jessee, E. (2015). Introduction: approaching perpetrators. Conflict and Society, 1, 4-8. is available online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2015.010102
    Subjects:History General and Old World
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > History
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    Date deposited:13 Mar 2017 16:21
    Last modified:09 Apr 2024 08:21
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/60165
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