دانلود کتاب States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 The Elementary Forms of Denial
Psychological status: conscious or unconscious?
Content: literal, interpretive or implicatory?
Organization: personal, cultural or official?
Time: historical or contemporary?
Agent: victim, perpetrator or observer?
Space and place: your own or elsewhere?
2 Knowing and Not-Knowing The Psychology of Denial
Everyday denial
The psychoanalysis of denial
Lies and self-deception
Cognitive errors
3 Denial at Work Mechanisms and Rhetorical Devices
Normalization
Defence mechanisms and cognitive errors
Accounts and rhetorical devices
Collusion and cover-up
Everyday bystanders
4 Accounting for Atrocities Perpetrators and Officials
Perpetrators: accounts as denials
The discourse of official denial
5 Blocking out the Past Personal Memories, Public Histories
Prelude: repression
Personal memories, personal past
Personal denials, public histories
Collective denials, public histories
6 Bystander States
Prologue: ‘It can’t happen to us’
Internal bystanders
External audiences
7 Images of Suffering
Appeasing the media beast
Representation and the starving African child
Enlightenment fatigue
8 Appeals Outrage into Action
Appeal narrative
Issues
9 Digging up Graves, Opening up Wounds Acknowledging the Past
Modes of acknowledgement
Acknowledgement and social control
Over-acknowledgement
10 Acknowledgement Now
The meanings of acknowledgement
Telling the truth
Intervention: pro-social behaviour and altruism
Creating more acknowledgement
11 Towards Cultures of Denial?
Intellectual denial
More or less denial?
The photo never lies
Notes
Index