Edward Weisband
Biographic Data
| ID | 1110458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Weisband |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Weisband |
| SIGNATURE | WEISBAND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching World Politics
The Macabresque
The Macabresque
This book provides an original interpretation of the emotional psychology and disordered will of perpetrators during episodes of genocide and mass atrocity that have taken place throughout the twentieth century. It focuses on the persistence of staged human violation and lurid degradation as a prelude to the death of victims, who are forced to act out the diabolical fantasies of perpetrators. Explanations of ludic dying derive from a cultural, ps…
From Collective Violence to Human Violation
This chapter argues that the psychodynamics of desire contribute to the transformation of “ordinary” individuals into those who directly and indirectly support or engage in genocide, mass atrocity, and their performative dramaturgies. The chapter describes the practices of the macabresque in terms of noir ecstasy and the psychodynamics of obscene surplus enjoyment in the transgressive theaters of human violation. Comparative depictions of the mac…
One Mind, Heart, and Spirit
This chapter presents the reductionist traps in applying psychosocial theory to political and social analysis whenever the analytical concept of “mass mind” is applied in the context of political history to explain intersectarian violence. It thus outlines the methodological risks in efforts to dehistoricize explanations of collective behavior on the basis of presumed immutable psychosocial forces that “psychologize” violent behaviors by conflati…
Human Development and the Political Subject
This chapter analyzes the etiologies of hatred. It explores psychic and emotional constructions of indifference, devoid of genuine passion. Such mentalized constructions of indifference partially result from secondary psychic representations. The alien self is described as a rival self-other captivated by mentalized constructions that prevent empathetic vision during mass atrocity. Sight becomes beholden to social fantasies that transform externa…
The Lurid and Ludic in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
This chapter examines the Chinese Cultural Revolution not so much to “explain” why it happened. Rather, it demonstrates the relevance of traditional values and certain child-rearing practices to psychosocial explanations of how mass atrocities were perpetrated. It focuses on the genocide of the Maoist revolution and its dystopian project of peasant collectivization. The Cultural Revolution was political in its imposition of the Communist Party st…
The Modalities of Desire in Mimetic Rivalry
This chapter analyses the modes of perpetrator performative transgression by distinguishing between torture, torment, and agony as outcomes desired by perpetrators that represent different kinds of suffering reflective of the comparative influences of culture. The analysis focuses on the language of perpetrators in terms of lies, empty euphemisms, and the anti-ironic to develop a theory of language that is framed by the willed desire of perpetrat…
Respect, plurality, and prejudice
Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States
This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. Contemporary debates concerning nationality, nationalism, citizenship, an…
Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945
As it became evident that the Allies were winning World War II, Turkish policy-makers struggled to achieve their objectives in the shifting circumstances of wartime diplomacy. Edward Weisband's detailed description of Turkish foreign policy from 1943 to 1945 reveals that it was complicated by the fact that its two principal aims dictated contradictory positions. The first aim was the priority of peace over expansionism—this implied a nonintervent…
Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States
On the Aporetic Borderlines of Forgiveness
This article focuses on representations of forgiveness as adopted or assumed by processes of collective amelioration experienced in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It seeks to demonstrate how each representative approach to forgiveness captures some of the torment, pain, and suffering of survivor and successor generations, but also that each fails to accommodate the depths and complexities of personal grief and collective mourning. Too often tran…
The Virtues of Virtue
Network governance, social capital, and virtue-based forms of corporate social responsibility justify sectoral arrangements organized around reciprocated forms of entrepreneurial accountability to promote best practices of corporate social responsibility benchmarked in near and long terms. Standards of corporate social responsibility require precise elaboration within the contexts of contemporary theories of the firm that specify the normative li…
Global Accountabilities
Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations. The contri…
International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism
Discursive Multilateralism
A distinct feature of contemporary international relations is the proliferation of multilateral monitoring regimes. Despite the significance of this for the study of international law and organization, little empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of multilateral monitoring exists. This article examines the effectiveness of the supervisory system of the International Labor Organization (ILO), widely recognized as the prototypical model for all…
Teaching World Politics
United States
Panama Paralysis
Word Politics
Foreign Investments and International Law
The Brezhnev-Johnson two-world doctrine
The Johnson and Brezhnev Doctrines
Discursive Multilateralism
A distinct feature of contemporary international relations is the proliferation of multilateral monitoring regimes. Despite the significance of this for the study of international law and organization, little empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of multilateral monitoring exists. This article examines the effectiveness of the supervisory system of the International Labor Organization (ILO), widely recognized as the prototypical model for all…
The Virtues of Virtue
Network governance, social capital, and virtue-based forms of corporate social responsibility justify sectoral arrangements organized around reciprocated forms of entrepreneurial accountability to promote best practices of corporate social responsibility benchmarked in near and long terms. Standards of corporate social responsibility require precise elaboration within the contexts of contemporary theories of the firm that specify the normative li…
On the Aporetic Borderlines of Forgiveness
This article focuses on representations of forgiveness as adopted or assumed by processes of collective amelioration experienced in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It seeks to demonstrate how each representative approach to forgiveness captures some of the torment, pain, and suffering of survivor and successor generations, but also that each fails to accommodate the depths and complexities of personal grief and collective mourning. Too often tran…
Teaching World Politics
United States
The Brezhnev-Johnson two-world doctrine
The Johnson and Brezhnev Doctrines
The Johnson and Brezhnev Doctrines
Foreign Investments and International Law
The Brezhnev-Johnson two-world doctrine
Word Politics
Panama Paralysis
United States
Teaching World Politics
Discursive Multilateralism
A distinct feature of contemporary international relations is the proliferation of multilateral monitoring regimes. Despite the significance of this for the study of international law and organization, little empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of multilateral monitoring exists. This article examines the effectiveness of the supervisory system of the International Labor Organization (ILO), widely recognized as the prototypical model for all…
International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism
Global Accountabilities
Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations. The contri…
On the Aporetic Borderlines of Forgiveness
This article focuses on representations of forgiveness as adopted or assumed by processes of collective amelioration experienced in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It seeks to demonstrate how each representative approach to forgiveness captures some of the torment, pain, and suffering of survivor and successor generations, but also that each fails to accommodate the depths and complexities of personal grief and collective mourning. Too often tran…
The Virtues of Virtue
Network governance, social capital, and virtue-based forms of corporate social responsibility justify sectoral arrangements organized around reciprocated forms of entrepreneurial accountability to promote best practices of corporate social responsibility benchmarked in near and long terms. Standards of corporate social responsibility require precise elaboration within the contexts of contemporary theories of the firm that specify the normative li…
Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States
This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. Contemporary debates concerning nationality, nationalism, citizenship, an…
Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945
As it became evident that the Allies were winning World War II, Turkish policy-makers struggled to achieve their objectives in the shifting circumstances of wartime diplomacy. Edward Weisband's detailed description of Turkish foreign policy from 1943 to 1945 reveals that it was complicated by the fact that its two principal aims dictated contradictory positions. The first aim was the priority of peace over expansionism—this implied a nonintervent…
Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States
Respect, plurality, and prejudice
The Macabresque
This book provides an original interpretation of the emotional psychology and disordered will of perpetrators during episodes of genocide and mass atrocity that have taken place throughout the twentieth century. It focuses on the persistence of staged human violation and lurid degradation as a prelude to the death of victims, who are forced to act out the diabolical fantasies of perpetrators. Explanations of ludic dying derive from a cultural, ps…
From Collective Violence to Human Violation
This chapter argues that the psychodynamics of desire contribute to the transformation of “ordinary” individuals into those who directly and indirectly support or engage in genocide, mass atrocity, and their performative dramaturgies. The chapter describes the practices of the macabresque in terms of noir ecstasy and the psychodynamics of obscene surplus enjoyment in the transgressive theaters of human violation. Comparative depictions of the mac…
One Mind, Heart, and Spirit
This chapter presents the reductionist traps in applying psychosocial theory to political and social analysis whenever the analytical concept of “mass mind” is applied in the context of political history to explain intersectarian violence. It thus outlines the methodological risks in efforts to dehistoricize explanations of collective behavior on the basis of presumed immutable psychosocial forces that “psychologize” violent behaviors by conflati…
Human Development and the Political Subject
This chapter analyzes the etiologies of hatred. It explores psychic and emotional constructions of indifference, devoid of genuine passion. Such mentalized constructions of indifference partially result from secondary psychic representations. The alien self is described as a rival self-other captivated by mentalized constructions that prevent empathetic vision during mass atrocity. Sight becomes beholden to social fantasies that transform externa…
The Lurid and Ludic in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
This chapter examines the Chinese Cultural Revolution not so much to “explain” why it happened. Rather, it demonstrates the relevance of traditional values and certain child-rearing practices to psychosocial explanations of how mass atrocities were perpetrated. It focuses on the genocide of the Maoist revolution and its dystopian project of peasant collectivization. The Cultural Revolution was political in its imposition of the Communist Party st…
The Modalities of Desire in Mimetic Rivalry
This chapter analyses the modes of perpetrator performative transgression by distinguishing between torture, torment, and agony as outcomes desired by perpetrators that represent different kinds of suffering reflective of the comparative influences of culture. The analysis focuses on the language of perpetrators in terms of lies, empty euphemisms, and the anti-ironic to develop a theory of language that is framed by the willed desire of perpetrat…
The Macabresque
Teaching World Politics
Political science (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (11 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works)