Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, [2011]
©2011 - Edition
- Second edition
- Contents
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pt. 1. Overview
1. The origins of genocide
Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity
The Vendée uprising
Zulu genocide
Naming genocide: Raphael Lemkin
Defining genocide: the UN Convention
Bounding genocide: comparative genocide studies
What is destroyed in genocide?
Multiple and overlapping identities
Dynamism and contingency
The question of genocidal intent
Contested cases of genocide
Atlantic slavery: and after
Area bombing and nuclear warfare
UN sanctions against Iraq
9/11: terrorism as genocide?
Structural and institutional violence
Is genocide ever justified?
2. State and empire, war and revolution
The state, imperialism, and genocide
Imperial famines
The Congo "rubber terror"
The Japanese in East and Southeast Asia
The US in Indochina
The Soviets in Afghanistan
Imperial ascent and dissolution
Genocide and war
The First World War and the dawn of industrial death
The Second World War and the "barbarization of warfare"
Genocide and social revolution
The nuclear revolution and "omnicide"
pt. 2. Cases
3. Genocides of indigenous peoples
Colonialism and the discourse of extinction
The conquest of the Americas
Spanish America
The United States and Canada
Other genocidal strategies
Australia's Aborigines and the Namibian Hereros
Genocide in Australia
The Herero genocide
Denying genocide, celebrating genocide
Complexities and caveats
Indigenous revival
The genocide of Guatemala's Mayans
4. The Ottoman destruction of Christian minorities
Origins of the genocide
War, deportation, and massacre
The Armenian genocide
The Assyrian genocide
The Pontian Greek genocide
Aftermath: attempts at justice
The denial
Chechnya
5. Stalin and Mao
The Soviet Union and Stalinism
1917: the Bolsheviks seize power
Collectivization and famine
The Gulag
The Great Purge of 1937-38
The war years
The destruction of national minorities
China and Maoism
Stalin, Mao, and genocide
6. The Jewish holocaust
Origins
"Ordinary Germans" and the Nazis
The turn to mass murder
Debating the Holocaust
Intentionalists vs. functionalists
Jewish resistance
The Allies and the churches: could the Jews have been saved?
Willing executioners?
Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust
Is the Jewish Holocaust "uniquely unique"?
The Nazis' other victims
7. Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge
Origins of the Khmer Rouge
War and revolution, 1970-75
A genocidal ideology
A policy of "urbicide," 1975
"Base people" vs. "New people"
Cambodia's Holocaust, 1975-79
Genocide against Buddhists and ethnic minorities
Aftermath: politics and the quest for justice
East Timor
8. Bosnia and Kosovo
Origins and onset
Gendercide and genocide in Bosnia
The international dimension
Kosovo, 1998-99
Aftermaths
Genocide in Bangladesh, 1971
9. Apocalypse in Rwanda
Introduction: horror and shame
Background to genocide
Genocidal frenzy
Aftermaths
Congo and Darfur
pt. 3. Social Science perspectives
10. Psychological perspectives
Narcissism, greed, fear, humiliation
The psychology of perpetrators
The Stanford prison experiments
The psychology of rescuers
11. The sociology and anthropology of genocide
Sociological perspectives
The sociology of modernity
Ethnicity and ethnic conflict
Ethnic conflict and violence "specialists"
"Middleman minorities"
Anthropological perspectives
12. Political science and international relations
Empirical investigations
The changing face of war
Democracy, war, and genocide/democide
Norms and prohibition regimes
13. Gendering genocide
Gendercide vs. root-and-branch genocide
Women as targets
Gendercidal institutions
Genocide and violence against homosexuals
Genocidal men, genocidal women
A note on gendered propaganda
pt. 4. The future of genocide
14. Memory, forgetting, and denial
Contested memories: four cases
I. Germany
II. Japan
III. Russia
IV. Argentina
The politics of forgetting
Genocide denial: motives and strategies
Denial and free speech
15. Justice, truth, and redress
Leipzig, Constantinople, Nuremberg, Tokyo
The international criminal tribunals: Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Jurisdictional issues
The concept of a victim group
Gender and genocide
National trials
The "mixed tribunals": Cambodia and Sierra Leone
Another kind of justice: Rwanda's gacaca experiment
The Pinochet case
The International Criminal Court (ICC)
International citizens' tribunals
Truth and reconciliation
The challenge of redress
16. Strategies of intervention and prevention
Warning signs
Humanitarian intervention
Sanctions
The United Nations
When is military intervention justified?
A standing "peace army"?
Ideologies and individuals
The role of the hones witness
Ideologies, religious and secular
Personal responsibility. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Overview -- 1. The origins of genocide -- Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity -- The Vendée uprising -- Zulu genocide -- Naming genocide: Raphael Lemkin -- Defining genocide: the UN Convention -- Bounding genocide: comparative genocide studies -- What is destroyed in genocide? -- Multiple and overlapping identities -- Dynamism and contingency -- The question of genocidal intent -- Contested cases of genocide -- Atlantic slavery: and after -- Area bombing and nuclear warfare -- UN sanctions against Iraq -- 9/11: terrorism as genocide? -- Structural and institutional violence -- Is genocide ever justified? -- 2. State and empire, war and revolution -- The state, imperialism, and genocide -- Imperial famines -- The Congo "rubber terror" -- The Japanese in East and Southeast Asia -- The US in Indochina -- The Soviets in Afghanistan -- Imperial ascent and dissolution -- Genocide and war -- The First World War and the dawn of industrial death -- The Second World War and the "barbarization of warfare" -- Genocide and social revolution -- The nuclear revolution and "omnicide" --
pt. 2. Cases -- 3. Genocides of indigenous peoples -- Colonialism and the discourse of extinction -- The conquest of the Americas -- Spanish America -- The United States and Canada -- Other genocidal strategies -- Australia's Aborigines and the Namibian Hereros -- Genocide in Australia -- The Herero genocide -- Denying genocide, celebrating genocide -- Complexities and caveats -- Indigenous revival -- The genocide of Guatemala's Mayans -- 4. The Ottoman destruction of Christian minorities -- Origins of the genocide -- War, deportation, and massacre -- The Armenian genocide -- The Assyrian genocide -- The Pontian Greek genocide -- Aftermath: attempts at justice -- The denial -- Chechnya -- 5. Stalin and Mao -- The Soviet Union and Stalinism -- 1917: the Bolsheviks seize power -- Collectivization and famine -- The Gulag -- The Great Purge of 1937-38 -- The war years -- The destruction of national minorities -- China and Maoism -- Stalin, Mao, and genocide -- 6. The Jewish holocaust -- Origins -- "Ordinary Germans" and the Nazis -- The turn to mass murder -- Debating the Holocaust -- Intentionalists vs. functionalists -- Jewish resistance -- The Allies and the churches: could the Jews have been saved? -- Willing executioners? -- Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust -- Is the Jewish Holocaust "uniquely unique"? -- The Nazis' other victims -- 7. Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge -- Origins of the Khmer Rouge -- War and revolution, 1970-75 -- A genocidal ideology -- A policy of "urbicide," 1975 -- "Base people" vs. "New people" -- Cambodia's Holocaust, 1975-79 -- Genocide against Buddhists and ethnic minorities -- Aftermath: politics and the quest for justice -- East Timor -- 8. Bosnia and Kosovo -- Origins and onset -- Gendercide and genocide in Bosnia -- The international dimension -- Kosovo, 1998-99 -- Aftermaths -- Genocide in Bangladesh, 1971 -- 9. Apocalypse in Rwanda -- Introduction: horror and shame -- Background to genocide -- Genocidal frenzy -- Aftermaths -- Congo and Darfur --
pt. 3. Social Science perspectives -- 10. Psychological perspectives -- Narcissism, greed, fear, humiliation -- The psychology of perpetrators -- The Stanford prison experiments -- The psychology of rescuers -- 11. The sociology and anthropology of genocide -- Sociological perspectives -- The sociology of modernity -- Ethnicity and ethnic conflict -- Ethnic conflict and violence "specialists" -- "Middleman minorities" -- Anthropological perspectives -- 12. Political science and international relations -- Empirical investigations -- The changing face of war -- Democracy, war, and genocide/democide -- Norms and prohibition regimes -- 13. Gendering genocide -- Gendercide vs. root-and-branch genocide -- Women as targets -- Gendercidal institutions -- Genocide and violence against homosexuals -- Genocidal men, genocidal women -- A note on gendered propaganda --
pt. 4. The future of genocide -- 14. Memory, forgetting, and denial -- Contested memories: four cases -- I. Germany -- II. Japan -- III. Russia -- IV. Argentina -- The politics of forgetting -- Genocide denial: motives and strategies -- Denial and free speech -- 15. Justice, truth, and redress -- Leipzig, Constantinople, Nuremberg, Tokyo -- The international criminal tribunals: Yugoslavia and Rwanda -- Jurisdictional issues -- The concept of a victim group -- Gender and genocide -- National trials -- The "mixed tribunals": Cambodia and Sierra Leone -- Another kind of justice: Rwanda's gacaca experiment -- The Pinochet case -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) -- International citizens' tribunals -- Truth and reconciliation -- The challenge of redress -- 16. Strategies of intervention and prevention -- Warning signs -- Humanitarian intervention -- Sanctions -- The United Nations -- When is military intervention justified? -- A standing "peace army"? -- Ideologies and individuals -- The role of the hones witness -- Ideologies, religious and secular -- Personal responsibility.
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