Mila Dragojević, "Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
New Books in Eastern European Studies
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The Immoral Community, a Concept of Immoral Communities
Geat o, the one of the main contributions from this book is that you are developing a concept of immoral communities. And you explain that these are created through the culmination of three elements. So you talk about the ethneciation of everyday life, the exclusion of moderates and the production of boarders. Can you just describe what you mean by amoral communities? A, so the term is a referring to a context in which the perpetrators believe that their actions of violence are not going to be panalized,. In this context, again, violence against civilians is not only tolerated, but may be actually covered up ar presented as necessary sacrifice.
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