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Show Time - The Logic and Power of Violent Display (Hardcover)
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Show Time - The Logic and Power of Violent Display (Hardcover)
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In Show Time, Lee Ann Fujii asks why some perpetrators of political
violence, from lynch mobs to genocidal killers, display their acts
of violence so publicly and extravagantly. Closely examining three
horrific and extreme episodes—the murder of a prominent Tutsi
family amidst the genocide in Rwanda, the execution of Muslim men
in a Serb-controlled village in Bosnia during the Balkan Wars, and
the lynching of a twenty-two-year old Black farmhand on Maryland's
Eastern Shore in 1933—Fujii shows how "violent displays" are
staged to not merely to kill those perceived to be enemies or
threats, but also to affect and influence observers, neighbors, and
the larger society. Watching and participating in these violent
displays profoundly transforms those involved, reinforcing
political identities, social hierarchies, and power structures.
Such public spectacles of violence also force members of the
community to choose sides—openly show support for the goals of
the violence, or risk becoming victims, themselves. Tracing the
ways in which public displays of violence unfold, Show Time reveals
how the perpetrators exploit the fluidity of social ties for their
own ends.
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