LEADER 03596cam a2200397Ia 4500001 112777 005 20240621201149.0 008 060125s2005 xx rb 000 0 eng d 020 0494008067 035 (OCoLC)ocm69946293 035 112777 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 HV6322.7 |b.P686 2005 100 1 Powell, Christopher John, |d1971- 245 10 Civilization and genocide / |cby Christopher John Powell. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2005. 300 vi, 448 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2005. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-448). 520 This dissertation argues that civilization produces genocides. It begins by considering the obstacles to a sociological understanding of genocide. First among these is the metaphysics of rupture that situates genocide radically outside the field of ordinary social relations, treating it as a breakdown, rather than as a product, of social relations. A second obstacle is the essentially contested status of the concept of 'genocide', which must be understood historically, through genealogical and figurational analysis. A third obstacle is the relative over-development of heroic sociologies of genocide, which focus on the production of an intending collective subject, and the relative under-development of anti-heroic sociologies that attend to difference, to relations, and to strategies of un-making. I theorize genocide using Norbert Elias's figurational analysis of the European civilizing process, which traces the intertwined growth of state institutions, particularly the state's territorial monopoly of military force, and of forms of self-regulation and habitual conduct that have come to be seen as civilized behaviour. Through a deconstructive reading of Elias's texts, I overcome the limits set by Elias's residual essentialism and Eurocentrism, which naively equates civilization with pacification, to produce instead an account of how the expansion of the civilizing process involves the reproduction of social violence on an ever-expanding scale. Under some circumstances, this process of 'barbarous civilization' is realized through genocidal violence, or 'civilizing genocides'. Finally, I apply this framework to the analysis of six historical examples of civilizing genocides: in Languedoc, Guatemala, Tasmania, India, Turkey, and Rwanda. I show that these examples, some of which are not usually considered genocides, can fruitfully and appropriately be treated as such, and how each of these events, usually considered examples of the failure or the breakdown or the limits of European civilization, are better understood as instances of its expansion. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2006. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Genocide |xSociological aspects. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=888847031&sid=1&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib112777/NR00806.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 C0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hHV6322.7 |i.P686 2005 852 |bwww 852 0 |bscstacks |hHV6322.7 |i.P686 2005 |tc.2 852 |bebook