The politics of annihilation : a genealogy of genocide / Benjamin Meiches.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : genocide as political discourse -- Groups, paradoxes of identity, and the racialization of global politics -- Parts, wholes, and the erasure of indigenous life -- Destruction and the creativity of violence -- Desire, international law, and the problem of unintentional genocide -- The logistics of prevention and the fantasy of preemption -- Genocide as politics and the horror of plasticity -- The sense of genocide and the politics of the future.

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