"This books is the culmination of an investigation spanning several years into state sponsored apartheid death squads ..."
Death squads have become an increasingly common feature of the modern world. This study examines why so many regimes, condone such activity, explaining not only their development, but also why they can be expected to continue proliferating.
"Death squads have become an increasingly common feature of the modern world. In nearly all instances, their establishment is tolerated, encouraged, or undertaken by the state itself. The state thereby risks its monopoly on the use of force, one of its defining characteristics. …
"Death squads have become an increasingly common feature of the modern world. In nearly all instances, their establishment is tolerated, encouraged, or undertaken by the state itself. The state thereby risks its monopoly on the use of force, one of its defining characteristics. …
Introduction: State terror and anthropology, Jeffrey A. Sluka 1. A fictional reality: Paramilitary death squads and the construction of State terror in Spain, Begona Aretxaga 2. Trials by fire: Dynamics of terror in Punjab and Kashmir, Cynthia 3. State terror in the netherwo…
Death Squad brings together an international group of anthropologists who have done extensive research in areas marked by extreme forms of state violence and who have studied state terror from the perspective of victims and survivors.