TY - BOOK ID - 77896238 TI - Final solutions PY - 2013 SN - 1849648921 1849648913 9781849648912 9780745326542 9780745326535 9781849648929 9781849648936 184964893X PB - London New York Pluto Press Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Genocide KW - History. KW - Humanity KW - Social isolation. KW - Marginality, Social. KW - Social status. KW - Social standing KW - Socio-economic status KW - Socioeconomic status KW - Standing, Social KW - Status, Social KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Prestige KW - Exclusion, Social KW - Marginal peoples KW - Social exclusion KW - Social marginality KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Culture conflict KW - Social isolation KW - Sociology KW - People with social disabilities KW - Isolation, Social KW - Social psychology KW - Alienation (Social psychology) KW - Social distance KW - Ethics KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Humanity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896238 AB - What causes genocide? Through an examination of four modern genocides - the Native Americans, the Armenians, the Jews and the Rwandan Tutsis - Sabby Sagal formulates a theoretical framework for understanding some of the darkest hours of humanity. Drawing on the scholarship of a range of Marxist psychoanalysts, from the Frankfurt School to Wilhelm Reich, shows how genocides are enacted by social classes or communities that have experienced isolation and denial of human needs, prostration and humiliation at the hands of major historical defeats, or powerlessness. These denials or degradations produce severe reactions: hatred, destructiveness and an impotent rage, which is often projected onto a perceived 'other'. Through close analysis and theorising of the commonalities and differences between recent genocides, Sagal hopes to produce greater understanding of the socio-psychological rationale behind atrocities, in order to prevent recurrences. ER -