Sacral Suicides, Unpunishable Killings, Rites of Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8968420 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill Mcdougall (0000-0002-6094-8050, University of Oxford, corresponding author), James Mcdougall |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 810-812 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743813000974 |
| OpenAlex | W2156224840 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Studies of violence relating to the Middle East have sometimes done more harm than they have explained. Like the intended effects of the U.S. military's doctrine of “rapid dominance,” compared by its proponents to “tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes . . . famine and disease,” violence in the Middle East would appear to be “incomprehensible,” though less to “the people at large” who are affected by it than to its prolific theoreticians. Over the past two decades, much of the literature on the region as a “cauldron of war”—generating five times its share (by population size) of total global conflict since the mid-20th century—has tended to update and propagate well-known mythologies of primitivism, authoritarian personalities, and ancient hatreds. The significance of such mythopoeia has been its capacity to realize, at least in part, the conditions of its own truthfulness by shaping perception and policy, framing and enabling the infliction of a new wave of warfare on the region. Much contemporary writing on post–Cold War global crisis, the geopolitics of instability, regional conflict, and the future of warfare has not only signally failed to understand the dynamics of the Middle East but has actively contributed to the spread of violence in the region
Authoritarianism · China · Criminology · Democracy · Development economics · East Asia · Famine · Framing (construction · Geography · Geopolitics · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Demography · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order
Of paradise and power
Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine
Violent Modernity. France in Algeria
Savagery in democracy's empire
Neo-Orientalism and the new barbarism thesis
Social Dominance Orientation, Authoritarianism, and Support for Intergroup Violence Between the Middle East and America
Varying methods of state violence
Pax Asiatica versus Bella Levantina
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |