Purify and destroy : the political uses of massacre and genocide /
Jacques Sémelin ; translated from the French by Cynthia Schoch.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
- xvi, 443 p. ; 23 cm.
- The CERI series in comparative politics and international studies .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-391) and indexes.
The imaginary constructs of social destructiveness -- From inflammatory discourse to sacrificial violence -- International context, war and the media -- The dynamics of mass murder -- The vertigo of impunity -- The political uses of massacres and genocides -- The "never again" refrain.