Format:
1 Online-Ressource (429 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780192688729
Content:
A collection of essays on the key themes of genocide, addressing imperial violence and military contexts for genocide, predicting, preventing, and prosecuting genocide, gender, ideology, the state, memory, transitional justice, and ecocide.
Content:
Cover -- Genocide: Key Themes -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- What Is Genocide? -- The Chapters -- 1: Fit for Purpose?: The Concept of Genocide and Civilian Destruction -- Introduction -- Lemkin's Favoured Groups -- Zionism and Small Nations -- Lemkin's Invention -- The Genocide Convention -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Select Bibliography -- 2: Predicting Genocide -- Introduction -- Understanding Prediction: Origins and Definitions -- Step 1: Risk Factors -- Step 2: Triggers and Escalatory Factors -- Predictive Bodies -- Future of Atrocity Prediction and Prevention -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- 3: The Absence of Genocide in the Presence of Risk: When Genocide Does Not Occur -- Introduction -- The Root Cause Approach to Understanding the Causes of Genocide -- Risk as a Relatively Stable Factor -- Methodological Challenges with Negative Case Study Selection -- Negative Case Studies -- The Bahá'í minority in Iran -- Ethnic Minorities in Botswana -- Ethno-linguistic Minorities in Zambia -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- 4: Gender and Genocide -- Introduction -- Definitions of Genocide -- Adding Men -- Femicide and Feminicide -- Genocidal Rape -- Relational Violence, Life Force Atrocities, and Prevention -- Genocidal Masculinities and Genocidal Femininities -- Aftermaths -- Select Bibliography -- 5: Ideology and Genocide -- Introduction -- Characterizing Genocidal Ideologies -- Ideology, Pragmatism, and Self-Interest -- Ideology and Action -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- 6: Genocide and the State -- Introduction -- Theoretical Approaches -- Bureaucracy -- Military -- Paramilitaries -- Dictator, One-Party Rule, State -- Jihadists -- Conclusions -- Select Bibliography -- 7: Genocide and Empire -- Introduction -- Empires in World History -- The Imperial Threshold.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-19-286526-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Völkermord
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Bloxham, Donald 1973-
Author information:
Moses, A. Dirk 1967-
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