Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 1:
Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
by Michael J. Pfeifer
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0252082311 | 206 Pages | ePUB | 11 MB
Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
by Michael J. Pfeifer
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0252082311 | 206 Pages | ePUB | 11 MB
Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia–where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet–to South Africa, with its notorious history of necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, the merging of state-sponsored and local collective violence during the Nanking Massacre, and the ways public anger and lynching in India relate to identity, autonomy, and territory.