1st Edition
State Domination and the Psycho-Politics of Conflict Power, Conflict and Humiliation
Preface
Part I: Governmental Powers
1. Good and Bad Aggression
2. Fields of Governmental Power
3. The Pain of Humiliation
Part II: The Practices of Power
4. The Attrition of Unauthorized Immigrants
5. Erasure, Race and Criminal Justice
6. Symbolic Violence in Sudan With Adeeb Yousif
Part III: Systemic Compassion
7. Systemic Compassion in Conflict Resolution
8. Compassion in the Face of Genocide in Rwanda
Afterword
Biography
Daniel Rothbart is Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA. His book publications include Civilians and Modern War (co-edited, 2012), Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding (co-authored, 2012) and Systemic Humiliation in America (2018).
"Daniel Rothbart has provided a must-read for anyone examining the psycho-politics of governmental-sponsored violence and manipulation. This book shifts paradigms and provides new optics to understand the global intersection of power, humiliation, and the state."
Tony Gaskew, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, USA
"This timely and well-crafted book explores government-sponsored violence that creates humiliation as a means to achieve disciplinary control in populations. Thankfully Rothbart also leads us toward solutions to authoritarian humiliation by outlining practices that nurture the norm of compassion."
Fathali M. Moghaddam, Georgetown University, USA
"Using a creative mix of conflict analysis, neuroscience, social psychology, sociology, and political science, Daniel Rothbart presents a compelling portrayal of the ways that governments can subjugate and control population groups through ruthless humiliation. His analysis emerges from three case studies: self-deportation of Latino immigrants from the US, mass killings by Sudan’s central government, and genocide in Rwanda. In its lively prose, the book offers insight into pernicious governmental controls over vulnerable people."
Ronald E. Anderson , University of Minnesota, USA
