Enemy Images

Emergence, Consequences and Counteraction

Kristian Steiner, Andreas Önnerfors (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-24636-9 (ISBN)

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This book offers a detailed understanding of ‘enemy images’, which are used in political rhetoric to dehumanize adversaries for various purposes, such as to legitimate violent conflicts.

Applying theoretical models to a strong catalogue of historical and recent examples – from blood libel narratives in medieval manuscripts, to state-sponsored children’s board games in Nazi Germany and social media posts about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine – the book identifies how ‘enemy images’ have led to the development of dominant socio-political paradigms by providing justifications for and reinforcements of violent conflicts both within and between societies. In doing so, the work offers an up-to-date, accessible and authoritative overview of how to identify, analyse, and counteract energy images – which will be key to fostering social environments of reconciliation and peacebuilding for the future.

This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of peace and conflict studies, International Relations, history, political sociology, and communication studies.

Kristian Steiner is Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. He has authored numerous articles in peace and conflict studies and political science. His research revolves around the usage of religious language to justify violence. He co-edited Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices (with Andreas Önnerfors, 2018). Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors is Full Professor in Intellectual History and works as a project manager at Fojo Media Institute at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has specialized in contemporary radicalization, populist mobilization, and conspiratorial meaning-making. In 2021, he co-edited Europe: Continent of Conspiracies. Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe (with André Krouwel).

1. Why study enemy images?: An introduction

2. What is an enemy image?: Concepts and ideal types

3. How to make enemy images persuasive: Senders, messages and discursive consistency

4. Why are enemy images accepted?: Individual and structural factors

5. Who is targeted by enemy images?:Socio-psychological and cognitive drivers

6. How to counteract enemy images: Interventions and measures

7 . Expressions of enemy images: Media and manipulation

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2024
Zusatzinfo	8 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	703 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-032-24636-7 / 1032246367
ISBN-13	978-1-032-24636-9 / 9781032246369
Zustand	Neuware