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Ideology and Mass Killing by Jonathan Leader Maynard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Jonathan Leader Maynard

Current price: $269.50
Ideology and Mass Killing by Jonathan Leader Maynard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Ideology and Mass Killing by Jonathan Leader Maynard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Ideology and Mass Killing by Jonathan Leader Maynard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the extremist goals and hatreds that motivate ideologically committed people to kill. But many other scholars aresceptical: contending that perpetrators of mass killing rarely seem ideologically committed, and that rational self-interest or powerful forms of social pressure are more important drivers of violence than ideology. In Ideology and Mass Killing, Jonathan Leader Maynard challenges both theseprevailing views, advancing an alternative 'neo-ideological' perspective which systematically retheorises the key ideological foundations of large-scale violence against civilians. Integrating cutting-edge research from multiple disciplines, including political science, political psychology, historyand sociology, Ideology and Mass Killing demonstrates that ideological justifications vitally shape such violence in ways that go beyond deep ideological commitment. Most disturbingly of all, the key ideological foundations of mass killings are found to lie, not in extraordinary political goals orhatreds, but in radicalised versions of those conventional, widely accepted ideas that underpin the politics of security in ordinary societies across the world. This study then substantiates this account by a detailed examination of four contrasting cases of mass killing - Stalinist Repression inthe Soviet Union between 1930 and 1938, the Allied Bombing Campaign against Germany and Japan in World War II from 1940 to 1945, mass atrocities in the Guatemalan Civil War between 1978 and 1983, and the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. This represents the first volume to offer a dedicated, comparativetheory of ideology's role in mass killing, while also developing a powerful new account of how ideology affects violence and politics more generally. | Ideology and Mass Killing by Jonathan Leader Maynard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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