States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering / Stanley Cohen.
Cohen, Stanley.
2001
BF175.5.D44 C64 2001 (Mapit)
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Title States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering / Stanley Cohen.
Author Cohen, Stanley.
ISBN 0745623921 (pbk.)
0745616577
Imprint Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Language English
Description xvi, 344 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number BF175.5.D44 C64 2001
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-330) and index.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The elementary forms of denial
2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial
3. Denial at work: mechanisms and rhetorical devices
4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials
5. Blocking out the past: personal memories, public histories
6. Bystander states
7. Images of suffering
8. Appeals: outrage into action
9. Digging up graves, opening up wounds: acknowledging the past
10. Acknowledgement now
11. Towards cultures of denial?
Notes
Index.

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