Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780252040801)

Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet--to South Africa, with its notorious history of necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, the merging of state-sponsored and local collective violence during the Nanking Massacre, and the ways public anger and lynching in India relate to identity, autonomy, and territory. Contributors: Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, and Nicholas Rush Smith.

Author: Michael J. Pfeifer
ISBN-10: 0252040805
ISBN-13: 9780252040801
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2017
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d