ONCE AGAIN AVAILABLE: Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR
The Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR (Routledge/Taylor and Francis) is generating excitement throughout the world as the definitive publication on the sources of collective forms of violence (including genocide and terrorism). We have reprinted copies of this important issue in order to make it available once again to researchers and teachers.
Articles included in the issue—as well as
brief excerpts from a few of them—are described below. Please order ASAP to make
certain you obtain your copy of this groundbreaking publication.
With
best regards,
Orion Anderson
P. S. A number of faculty have selected
this issue as a text for courses on peace studies, warfare, terrorism, violence
in society and history, etc.
ARTICLES INCLUDE:
MEMORIALIZATION AND THE
SELLING OF WAR, Deborah D. Buffton, Professor of History at the University
of Wisconsin, La Crosse. "War is so closely connected with the
identity of nations that participation in war is a necessary action to show
one's devotion to the country; a society cannot consider itself 'alive' if its
citizens are not willing to die for it. Fighting and dying for one's country
become the means through which a society is 'resurrected'."
HUMILIATION AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, Paul Saurette, Assistant
Professor School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa,
Canada. "Once we understand 9/11 as fundamentally humiliating and
not just threatening the United States—we
can make better sense of the elements of the global war on terror. A legal
approach would never have been accepted, even if international laws were
reliable and effective enough to pursue al-Qaeda. Why? Although courts promise
to provide justice, they rarely explicitly deliver vengeance and
counter-humiliation."
DOMINANCE AND SUBMISSION IN POSTMODERN
WAR IMAGERY, Myra Mendible, Associate Professor of American Studies at
Florida Gulf Coast University. "Humiliation is one of the techniques
through which institutions and nations construct docile and disciplined bodies.
The rigorous and often painful physical trials, the drill sergeant hollering
insults, separate those worthy of the warrior's honor from the ones that carry
"the virus of weakness." In forging a marine corps—a military body defined by strength and
hardness, the soldier extirpates any trace of the feminine. Discipline begins
with self-abnegation; absolute surrender to the authority of the stern father
figure who punishes and rewards."
SACRIFICE,
TRANSCENDENCE AND THE SOLDIER, Babak Rahimi, Assistant Professor of Iranian
and Islamic Studies at the University of California at San Diego.
"The soldier's experience in believing that he is dying for something greater
than himself, for something that will outlast his individual, perishable life in
place of a greater, eternal vitality (embodied in the national or a religious
identity) is crucial for the ideological justification of
war."
GROUP PSYCHOLOGY,
SACRIFICE AND WAR, Norman Steinhart, M.D., Research Fellow at the McLuhan
Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto,
Canada
WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS WILL TO SACRIFICE, Patrick Porter,
Tutor in Modern History at the University of
Oxford
THE MYTHOLOGY OF WAR, Dr. Andrew Robinson, Political theorist, University of Nottingham
THE MANIC ECSTASY OF WAR, Wendy C. Hamblet, Professor of Philosophy, Adelphi University, New York
GUILT AND SACRIFICE IN U.S. WARFARE, Carl Mirra, American Studies at SUNY College, Old Westbury
MALE GENDER INSTABILITY AND WAR, Jeannette Marie Mageo, Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University
COMBAT MOTIVATION, Johan M.G. van der Dennen, senior researcher on war and peace at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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