Framing excessive violence : discourse and dynamics / edited by Daniel Ziegler, Marco Gerster, Steffen Krämer

Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Copyright Date: ©2015
Physical Description: x, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents

1. Introduction -- Part I. Dynamics of excess -- 2. Emotional dynamics of violent situations -- 3. Forward panic and police riots -- 4. What the situation explains: on riotous violence -- 5. Violence and emotion: perspectives of the perpetrators -- 6. Neo-fascist heroes: group identity and idealisation of the aggressor among violent right-wing adolescents -- 7. Explaining intimate massacres: suggestions for honing in on an elusive and tragic spirit -- Part II. Discourse and imagination -- 8. German rampage: social discourse and the emergence of a disturbing phenomenon -- 9. Amok: framing discourses on political violence by means of symbolic logic -- 10. Terrorism as cultural bricolage: the case of Anders Behring Breivik -- 11. Tales of abuse and torture: the narrative framing of the Abu Ghraib photographs -- 12. The (relative) absence of torture from documentary photography -- 13. Off limits? International law and the excessive use of force.

Subject(s)

Violence

ISBN

1137514426 (Cloth)
9781137514424 (Cloth)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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