Massacres as process

A micro-sociological theory of internal patterns of mass atrocities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7104745
AutoresStefan Klusemann (0000-0002-9664-696X, University of Chicago, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume9
Fascículo5
Páginas468-480
Data de publicação2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1477-3708 • E-ISSN: 1741-2609
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1477370812450825
OpenAlexW2331458990
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas32
Referências citadas8

Mass atrocities are episodes of violence that do not unfold at random: (a) there are recurrent patterns in the forms that violent behavior takes; (b) the chain of events in which violence unfolds is patterned internally, that is, there are processual patterns. These patterns are not the mere outcome or reflection of larger structures such as ethnic conflict; violence instead has patterns (including processual patterns) with a logic of their own. By tracing the onset and early phases of massacres in Srebrenica and Rwanda, it is shown that patterns of violence are shaped by local emotional dynamics. The paper builds on recent findings in the micro-sociology of violence by Collins and others and on Horowitz’s research on the processual character of violence in riots

Criminology · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Political science · Process tracing · Sociological theory · Sociology · Tracing · Anthropology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sociology and Norbert Elias