Identity, Violence and Power: Mobilising Hatred, Demobilising Dissent
About this ebook
The book explores an alternative way of looking at conflict, and dissects the policies and processes that bring specific identities to the fore, taking seriously the capacity to resist and face abusive authority.
Identity, Violence and Power will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, social psychology, history, political science and conflict studies.
About the author
Guy Elcheroth is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is currently Principal Investigator of the Pluralistic Memories Project, a cross-national research for development consortium, and Co-director of the Lausanne Life Course and Inequality Research Centre.
Stephen Reicher is Wardlaw Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
