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Genocide as Social Practice - Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas (Paperback)
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Genocide as Social Practice - Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas (Paperback)
Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
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Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and
reorganises social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide
as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the
policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine
military dictatorship against political opponents between 1976 and
1983 and those pursued by the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945. He
finds similarities, not in the extent of the horror but in terms of
the goals of the perpetrators. The Nazis resorted to ruthless
methods in part to stifle dissent but even more importantly to
reorganise German society into a Volksgemeinschaft, or people's
community, in which racial solidarity would supposedly replace
class struggle. The situation in Argentina echoes this. After
seizing power in 1976, the Argentine military described its own
programme of forced disappearances, torture and murder as a
"process of national reorganization" aimed at remodelling society
on "Western and Christian" lines. For Feierstein, genocide can be
considered a technology of power - a form of social engineering -
that creates, destroys or reorganises relationships within a given
society. It influences the ways in which different social groups
construct their identity and the identity of others, thus shaping
the way that groups interrelate. Feierstein establishes continuity
between the "reorganizing genocide" first practised by the Nazis in
concentration camps and the more complex version - complex in terms
of the symbolic and material closure of social relationships -
later applied in Argentina. In conclusion, he speculates on how to
construct a political culture capable of confronting and resisting
these trends. First published in Argentina, in Spanish, Genocide as
Social Practice has since been translated into many languages, now
including this English edition. The book provides a distinctive and
valuable look at genocide through the lens of Latin America as well
as Europe.
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