Title: Social torture
First published: 2009
Description: This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, government decisions and actions on the ground, consolidated by humanitarian interventions and silences, played a central role in creating a massive yet little recognized humanitarian crisis. Not only individuals, but society as a whole, came to exhibit symptoms typical of torture, and the perpetrator-victim dichotomy became blurred. It is such phenomena, and the complex of social, political, economic and cultural dynamics which underpin them, which the author describes as social tortue. Building on political economy, social anthropology, discourse analysis, international relations and psychoanalytic approaches to violence, this book offers an important analytical instrument for all those seeking entry points through which to address entrenched conflicts.
Subjects: History, Human rights, Humanitarian intervention, Lord's Resistance Army, Politics and government, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Violence, Social aspects, Social aspects of Torture, Social conditions, Torture, Violence, War and society, Violence, psychological aspects, Human rights, uganda, Intervention (international law), Uganda, history, Uganda, social conditions, Uganda, politics and government
Places: Uganda
Time periods: 1979-, 20th century, 21st century
LC classification: DT433.285 .D65 2009