Genocidal Nightmares: Narratives of Insecurity and the Logic of Mass Atrocities

Preface Foreword:Dr Francis Deng Chapter I: Introduction: Narrating the Precariousness of Human Decency Abdelwahab El-Affendi Chapter II: Killer Narratives: Collective Nightmares and the Construction of Narrative Communities of Insecurity Abdelwahab El-Affendi Chapter III: Imagining Nationhood, Framing Postcoloniality: Narrativising Nigeria Through the Kinesis Of (Hi)Story James Tar Tsaaior Chapter IV: Sudanese Stories: Narratives of Grievance, Distrust and Fatalism in Recurrent Violence Alex de Waal Chapter V: General Elections and Narratives of Violent Conflict: The Land Question and Civic Competence in Kenya Kenneth Inyani Simala Chapter VI: The Violence of Security, Lethal Representations, and Hindu Nationalism in India Dibyesh Anand Chapter VII: Memories of Victimhood in Serbia and Croatia from the 1980s to the Disintegration of Yugoslavia Slobodan G. Markovich Chapter VIII: Insecurity, Victimhood, Self and Other: The Case of Israel and Palestine Ilan Pappe Chapter IX: Resistance Narratives: Palestinian Women, Islam and Insecurity Mari Holt Chapter X: State Insecurity and Intergroup Violence: The Case of Modern Iraq Ali A. Allawi Chapter XI: Islamophobia as a Securitisation Narrative: The Exclusionary Logic of Imperial Geopolitics Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Chapter XII: Killer Narratives in Western Popular Culture Anas S. Al-Shaikh-Ali Concluding Remarks Authors' Biographies

Abdelwahab El-Affendi is Reader in Politics at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of Darfur: A Decade in Crisis (2013).