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9780415486194
Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction / Edition 2 available in Paperback
Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction / Edition 2
by Adam Jones
Adam Jones
- ISBN-10:
- 041548619X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780415486194
- Pub. Date:
- 09/15/2010
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10:
- 041548619X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780415486194
- Pub. Date:
- 09/15/2010
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction / Edition 2
by Adam Jones
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Overview
Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. Designed as a text for undergraduate and graduate students from a range of disciplines, it will also appeal to non-specialists and general readers.
Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field, this unique book:
- Provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept, including the concept of genocidal intent and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes.
- Discusses the role of state-building, imperialism, war, and social revolution in fueling genocide.
- Supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocides worldwide, each with a supplementary study.
- Explores perspectives on genocide from the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science/international relations, and gender studies.
- Considers the future of genocide, with attention to historical memory and genocide denial; initiatives for truth, justice, and redress; and strategies of intervention and prevention.
Highlights of the new edition include:
- New case studies of the Uyghur genocide in the People’s Republic of China, the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, and Muslims in India.
- The historical and archaeological legacy of genocide.
- New and vivid testimonies of survivors and witnesses to genocide.
This significantly revised fourth edition will remain an indispensable text for new generations of genocide study and scholarship. An accompanying website (www.genocidetext.net) features a selection of supplementary materials, teaching aids, and Internet resources.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780415486194 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 09/15/2010 |
Edition description: | Older Edition |
Pages: | 680 |
Product dimensions: | 6.90(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Adam Jones, PhD, was born in Singapore in 1963 and grew up in England and Canada. He is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia–Okanagan in Kelowna, BC. He has published various sole-authored and edited books on genocide and related themes, including Sites of Genocide (2022) and The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections (2013), as well as works on mass media and political transition. Jones has lived and/or traveled in over 100 countries on every populated continent. His "Global Photo Archive" of more than 26,000 Creative Commons images has been used online by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC, The Guardian, and The Atlantic, among many others (see www.flickr.com/adam_jones/albums/). He has served as an expert consultant for the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations xiii
About the author xv
Introduction xviii
Overview 1
The Origins of Genocide 3
Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity 3
The Vendee uprising 6
Zulu genocide 7
Naming genocide: Raphael Lemkin 8
Defining genocide: The UN Convention 12
Bounding genocide: Comparative genocide studies 14
Discussion 19
Personal observations 22
Contested cases 23
Atlantic slavery 23
Area bombing and nuclear warfare 24
UN sanctions against Iraq 25
9/11 26
Structural and institutional violence 27
Is genocide ever justified? 28
Suggestions for further study 31
Notes 32
Imperialism, War, and Social Revolution 39
Imperialism and colonialism 39
Colonial and imperial genocides 40
Imperial famines 41
The Congo "rubber terror" 42
The Japanese in East and Southeast Asia 44
The US in Indochina 46
The Soviets in Afghanistan 47
A note on genocide and imperial dissolution 48
Genocide and war 48
The First World War and the dawn of industrial death 51
The Second World War and the "barbarization of warfare" 53
Genocide and social revolution 55
The nuclear revolution and "omnicide" 56
Suggestions for further study 59
Notes 60
Cases 65
Genocides of Indigenous Peoples 67
Introduction 67
Colonialism and the discourse of extinction 68
The conquest of the Americas 70
Spanish America 70
The United States and Canada 72
Other genocidal strategies 75
A contemporary case: The Maya of Guatemala 77
Australia's Aborigines and the Namibian Herero 78
Genocide in Australia 78
The Herero genocide 80
Denying genocide, celebrating genocide 81
Complexities and caveats 83
Indigenous revival 85
Suggestions for further study 87
Notes 89
The Armenian Genocide 101
Introduction 101
Origins of the genocide 102
War, massacre, and deportation 105
The course of the Armenian genocide 106
The aftermath 112
The denial 113
Suggestions for further study 115
Notes 116
Stalin's Terror 124
The Bolsheviks seize power 125
Collectivization and famine 127
The Gulag 128
The Great Purge of 1937-38 129
The war years 131
The destruction of national minorities 134
Stalin and genocide 135
Suggestions for further study 137
Notes 138
The Jewish Holocaust 147
Introduction 147
Origins 148
"Ordinary Germans" and the Nazis 150
The turn to mass murder 151
Debating the Holocaust 157
Intentionalists vs. functionalists 157
Jewish resistance 158
The Allies and the churches: Could the Jews have been saved? 159
Willing executioners? 160
Israel and the Jewish Holocaust 161
Is the Jewish Holocaust "uniquely unique"? 162
Suggestions for further study 163
Notes 165
Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge 185
Origins of the Khmer Rouge 185
War and revolution, 1970-75 188
A genocidal ideology 190
A policy of "urbicide", 1975 192
"Base people" vs. "new people" 194
Cambodia's holocaust, 1975-79 195
Genocide against Buddhists and ethnic minorities 199
Aftermath: Politics and the quest for justice 200
Suggestions for further study 202
Notes 202
Bosnia and Kosovo 212
Origins and onset 212
Gendercide and genocide in Bosnia 216
The international dimension 219
Kosovo, 1998-99 220
Aftermaths 222
Suggestions for further study 224
Notes 224
Holocaust in Rwanda 232
Introduction: Horror and shame 232
Background to genocide 233
Genocidal frenzy 238
Aftermath 245
Suggestions for further study 246
Notes 247
Social Science Perspectives 259
Psychological Perspectives 261
Narcissism, greed, and fear 262
Narcissism 262
Greed 264
Fear 265
Genocide and humiliation 268
The psychology of perpetrators 270
The Zimbardo experiments 274
The psychology of rescuers 275
Suggestions for further study 281
Notes 282
The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide 288
Introduction 288
Sociological perspectives 289
The sociology of modernity 289
Ethnicity and ethnic conflict 291
Ethnic conflict and violence "specialists" 293
"Middleman minorities" 294
Anthropological perspectives 296
Suggestions for further study 301
Notes 302
Political Science and International Relations 307
Empirical investigations 307
The changing face of war 311
Democracy, war, and genocide/democide 314
Norms and prohibition regimes 316
Suggestions for further study 320
Notes 321
Gendering Genocide 325
Gendercide vs. root-and-branch genocide 326
Women and genocide 329
Gendercidal institutions 330
Genocide and violence against homosexuals 331
Are men more genocidal than women? 332
A note on gendered propaganda 334
Suggestions for further study 336
Notes 337
The Future of Genocide 343
Memory, Forgetting, and Denial 345
The struggle over historical memory 345
Germany and "the search for a usable past" 349
The politics of forgetting 350
Genocide denial: Motives and strategies 351
Denial and free speech 354
Suggestions for further study 358
Notes 358
Justice, Truth, and Redress 362
Leipzig, Constantinople, Nuremberg, Tokyo 363
The international criminal tribunals: Yugoslavia and Rwanda 366
Jurisdictional issues 367
The concept of a victim group 367
Gender and genocide 367
National trials 368
The "mixed tribunals": Cambodia and Sierra Leone 370
Another kind of justice: Rwanda's gacaca experiment 370
The Pinochet case 371
The International Criminal Court (ICC) 373
International citizens' tribunals 375
Truth and reconciliation 377
The challenge of redress 379
Suggestions for further study 381
Notes 382
Strategies of Intervention and Prevention 388
Warning signs 389
Humanitarian intervention 392
Sanctions 393
The United Nations 394
When is military intervention justified? 395
A standing "peace army"? 396
Ideologies and individuals 398
The role of the honest witness 398
Ideologies, religious and secular 400
Conclusion 404
Suggestions for further study 404
Notes 405
Index 410
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