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Global lynching and collective violence

Pfeifer, Michael J. (Michael James), 1968- editor

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\"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 history of vigilante necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, state-sponsored 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.\"--Page 4 of cover.

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Subject: Lynching. / Race discrimination. / SOCIAL SCIENCE Violence in Society. / SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations. / HISTORY World. / Lynchjustiz.
• ISBN: 9780252082313, 0252082311, 9780252040801, 0252040805, 9780252082900, 0252082907, 9780252041389, 0252041380

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