The Oldest Trick in the Book - Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working from Churchill's truism that history is written by the victors. To that end, it explores historical episodes of political persecution carried out under cover of moral panic, highlighting the process of 'Othering' common to each and theorising a historical model of panic-driven scapegoating from the results. Building this model from case studies in witch panic, communist panic and terrorist panic respectively, The Oldest Trick in the Book builds an argument that features common to each case study reflect broader historical patterning consistent with Churchill's maxim. On this basis it argues that the periodic construction of bogeymen or 'folk demons' is a useful device for enabling the kind of victim-playing and victim-blaming critical to protecting elite privilege during periods of crisis and that in being a recurring theme historically, panic-driven scapegoating retains great ongoing value to the privileged and powerful, and thus conspicuously remains an ongoing feature of world politics.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	July 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Ben M. Debney
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	399
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-981-15-5568-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	981-15-5568-0
Barcode:	9789811555688

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