Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing / James Waller.
Waller, James, 1961-
2007
HV6322.7 .W35 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing / James Waller.
Author Waller, James, 1961-
Edition 2nd ed.
ISBN 9780195314564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195314565 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195180930 (alk. paper)
0195180933 (alk. paper)
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Language English
Description xxvi, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HV6322.7 .W35 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.15/1019
Summary "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, 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 reconfigured explanatory model of evil to acknowledge that human behavior is multiply influenced and that any answer to the question "Why did that person act as he or she did?" can be examined at two levels of analysis - the proximate and the ultimate."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Foreword to the Second Edition / Gregory H. Stanton
Foreword to the First Edition / Christopher R. Browning
pt. 1. What are the origins of extraordinary human evil?
Introduction : a place called Mauthausen
1. The nature of extraordinary human evil
"Nits make lice"
2. Killers of conviction : groups, ideology, and extraordinary human evil
"Dovey's story"
3. The "Mad Nazi" : psychopathology, personality, and extraordinary human evil
The massacre at Babi Yar
4. The dead of demonization
The invasion of Dili
pt. 2. How do ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing?
5. Beyond demonization : a model of how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing
The Tonle Sap massacre
6. Cultural construction of worldview : Who are the killers?
Death of a Guatemalan village
7. Physical construction of the "other" : social death of the victims
The church of Ntarama
8. Social construction of cruelty : the power of the situation
The "safe area" of Srebrenica
9. Conclusion : Can we be delivered from extraordinary human evil?
Postscript : past as present
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index.

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