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States of denial : Knowing about atrocities and suffering / Stanley Cohen

Título : States of denial : Knowing about atrocities and suffering Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Stanley Cohen, Autor Fecha de publicación: 2001 Número de páginas: 344 p. ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-7456-1657-5 Idioma : Español (spa) Palabras clave: Discriminación social  Discriminación étnica Clasificación: 305 Grupos sociales - Incluye discriminación, inequidad e igualdad. Resumen: Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ...these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve 'maximum deniability'. Truth Commissions try to overcome the suppression and denial of past horrors. Bystander nations deny their responsibility to intervene. Do these phenomena have anything in common? When we deny, are we aware of what we are doing or is this an unconscious defence mechanism to protect us from unwelcome truths? Can there be cultures of denial? How do organizations like Amnesty and Oxfam try to overcome the public's apparent indifference to distant suffering and cruelty? Is denial always so bad - or do we need positive illusions to retain our sanity? States of Denial is the first comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical studies of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the 'passive bystander' and 'compassion fatigue'. The book shows how organized atrocities - the Holocaust and other genocides, torture, and political massacres - are denied by perpetrators and by bystanders, those who stand by and do nothing. Nota de contenido: The elementary forms of Denial -- Knowing and not-knowing: The Psychology of Denial -- Denial at work: Mechanisms and rhetorical devices -- Accounting for atrocities: Perpetrators and officials -- Blocking out the past: Personal memories, public histories -- Bystanter states -- images of suffering -- Appeals: Outrage into action -- Digging up graves, openning up wounds: Acknowledging the past -- Acknowledgement now -- Towards culturs of Denial

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Código de barras	Signatura	Tipo de medio	Ubicación	Sección	Estado
1213	305 C6781s 2001 C.1	Libro	CEDOC-INDH	Colección General	Disponible