States of denial : Knowing about atrocities and suffering
This volume offers a comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical states of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the "passive bystander".
xvi, 344 pages ; 23 cm
9780745616575, 9780745623924, 0745616577, 0745623921
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PrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1: The Elementary Forms Of DenialChapter 2: Knowing and Not-Knowing: The Psychology of DenialChapter 3: Denial at Work: Mechanisms and Rhetorical DevicesChapter 4: Accounting for Atrocities: Perpetrators and OfficialsChapter 5: Blocking Out the Past: Personal Memories, Public HistoriesChapter 6: Bystander StatesChapter 7: Images of SufferingChapter 8: Appeals: Outrage Into ActionChapter 9: Digging Up Graves, Opening Wounds: Acknowledging the PastChapter 10: Acknowledgement NowChapter 11: Loose EndsNotesIndex