"Genocidal Enjoymment" on Display in IDF Social Media from Gaza / Raúl Pérez
Paúl Pérez returns to discuss his recent British Sociological Association article, co-authored with Charles Thorpe, "Genocidal Enjoyment: On the Weaponization of Joyful Cruelty and 'Dark Fun' during Israel's Genocide on Gaza."
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Raul Perez
Raúl Pérez is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of La Verne. His research and teaching interests focus on the sociology of race and ethnicity, social inequality, social theory, and culture. His scholarship examines the intersections of racism, humor, and social conflict in the U.S. and globally, and his work has been awarded and supported by the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, and the Working-Class Studies Association.
His first book, The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy (Stanford University Press, 2022), received the 2023 Mary Douglas Book Prize from the American Sociological Association’s Section on the Sociology of Culture, and was a Finalist for the 2022 C. Wright Mills Book Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Other works are published in journals such as American Behavioral Scientist, Discourse and Society, Comedy Studies, Ethnicities, Sociological Perspectives, Social Semiotics, Sociology Compass, and various other scholarly volumes and edited collections.
