Demonization and violence as tools of institutional power: the social cage of Thailand.
Demonization has been used as tool for the maintenance of ruling regimes throughout history. Institutionalized, it becomes regime policy, exemplified in the extreme by the German Nazi regime's demonization of Jews. Dehumanized imagery is used to distinguish 'others', i.e. social, cultural, political...
| Published in: | Social Identities Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 446 - 461 |
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