Complying with Genocide: The Wolf You Feed

E.N. Anderson; Barbara A. Anderson

doi:10.5771/9781793634603

Summary

Drawing on a powerful Native American metaphor to frame this work, E.N. Anderson and Barbara Anderson examine complicity in genocide, stressing that it only through feeding the good wolf that a moral and social order of inclusion and tolerance can be built, while feeding the bad wolf will result in fear, hatred, exclusion, and violence. In Complying with Genocide: The Wolf You Feed, Anderson and Anderson illustrate how everyday frustration and fear, combined with hatred and social othering toward rivals and victims of discrimination, can lead individuals and whole nations to become complicit in genocide. Anderson and Anderson propose powerful actions that can both protect against complicity and create social change, as exemplified from populations recovering from genocidal regimes. This book is recommended for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, public health, psychology, criminal justice, and political science.

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3459-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3460-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 158
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Chapter 1 Genocide No access
2. Chapter 2 War and Mass Killing No access
3. Chapter 3 Conformity and Complicity No access
1. Chapter 4 Human Nature No access
2. Chapter 5 Individual and Cultural Variation No access
3. Chapter 6 The Exclusion of Others No access
1. Chapter 7 The Evolution of Genocide over Time No access
2. Chapter 8 Present Darkness No access
1. Chapter 9 Vulnerability to Conformity No access
2. Chapter 10 The Food of the Good Wolf No access
References No access Pages 129 - 150
Index No access Pages 151 - 156
About the Authors No access Pages 157 - 158