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The Politics of Humiliation

By أوتا فريفرت

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2021

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Ute Frevert traces humiliation as a political instrument from public punishment and the spectacle of shame to modern mass media and digital exposure. Courts, schools, armies and states rely on audiences to magnify disgrace and discipline both targets and observers. Combining social and emotional history, The Politics of Humiliation asks why practices rejected as cruel repeatedly return—and how power mobilises shame, honour and wounded dignity in democratic as well as authoritarian societies. Originally written in German as “Die politik der demütigung”, the work appears here in an Arabic translation by Heba Sherif.

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