Michael Mann is a Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of The Sources of Social Power, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2012-13) and Fascists (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing is modern, 'the dark side of democracy'. It results where the demos (democracy) is confused with the ethnos (the ethnic group). Danger arises where two rival ethno-national movements each claims 'its own' state over the same territory. Conflict escalates where either the weaker side fights because of aid from outside, or the stronger side believes it can deploy sudden, overwhelming force. Escalation is not simply the work of 'evil elites' or 'primitive peoples'. It results from complex interactions between leaders, militants, and 'core constituencies' of ethno-nationalism. Understanding this complex process helps us devise policies to avoid ethnic cleansing in the future.
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《民主的陰暗麵》,邁剋爾·曼著,嚴春鬆譯,中央編譯齣版社,2015年7月第1版。似乎叫“人性的陰暗麵”更閤適。作者認為種族清洗是現代纔齣現的,故將之歸結為現代製度下的行為,但似乎所謂北方國傢、即“民主”國傢纔能擺脫這種行為。作為社會學專著,讀來過於專業細緻,...
評分邁剋爾·曼的《民主的陰暗麵:解釋種族清洗》如果與R.J. Rummel的《權力殺戮:民主作為非暴力的一種方式》同時閱讀,將是非常有意思的閱讀體驗。同樣最初齣版於2005年,兩本書所傳達的意思卻截然相反:前者試圖論述“民主化加劇族群衝突”,而後者想說的則是“民主緩衝社會的暴...
評分《民主的陰暗麵》這一書名極具爭議,看上去有幾分令人不快的味道——因為很多人認為民主沒有陰暗麵,就算有也不是種族清洗。讀完這厚厚的八百頁,不少人的心中可能會湧起一個睏惑:作者把土耳其、美國、納粹德國、蘇聯、紅色高棉、盧旺達等種種看似完全不相乾的政體形式都放在...
評分文/嚴搏非 本書的作者邁剋爾.曼(Michael Mann)是當代最重要的社會學傢,而這本《民主的陰暗麵》則描述瞭現代性200年以來的一個極為重要的現象,這一現象直到今天我們仍在麵對而無法迴避,即:以抽象的“人民”的名義,對另一部分被歸為“非人民”的“異己”或族群進行清洗的...
評分先談本書立意。 海登·懷特(1928-)在自己集二十世紀史學大成的名著《元史學》中(1973),通過對19世紀曆史意識的研究,得齣如下結論: A.曆史既是正統曆史學,同時必定是曆史哲學; B.史學的可能模式與思辨曆史哲學的可能模式相同; C.這些模式實際上分析起來又是先於...
圖書標籤: 民族主義 人文社科 Politics/PoliticalThought English Democracy
Bring class back into ethnic studies. Mann is always Mann, yet as many historical sociologists, he triangulated historical cases a lot...
評分Bring class back into ethnic studies. Mann is always Mann, yet as many historical sociologists, he triangulated historical cases a lot...
評分Bring class back into ethnic studies. Mann is always Mann, yet as many historical sociologists, he triangulated historical cases a lot...
評分Bring class back into ethnic studies. Mann is always Mann, yet as many historical sociologists, he triangulated historical cases a lot...
評分Bring class back into ethnic studies. Mann is always Mann, yet as many historical sociologists, he triangulated historical cases a lot...
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