What is Genocide?
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-3183-7 (ISBN)
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Martin Shaw, Professor of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex
* Contents * Preface * INTRODUCTION *1 The Sociological Crime * Social classification and genocide * Studying genocide? * Disciplining the study * Sociology and the sociological crime * Revisiting concepts and classification * PART ONE * THE CONTRADICTIONS OF GENOCIDE THEORY *2 Neglected Foundations * Genocide as social destruction and its connections with war * Lemkin's sociological framework * Genocide and the laws of war * Separation of genocide from war * Narrowing genocide to physical destruction * A new definition *3 The Maximal Standard * The significance of the Holocaust * Holocaust 'uniqueness' * The Holocaust standard in comparative study * Holocausts and genocides *4 The Minimal Euphemism * The substitution of 'ethnic cleansing' for genocide * Origins of 'cleansing' terminology *'Cleansing' and genocide *'Non-genocidal' expulsions: the case of the Germans * Connections between post-war 'cleansing' and the Holocaust * Peaceful, legal 'transfers' and 'exchanges'? * The territorial dimension *5 Conceptual Proliferation * The many 'cides' of genocide * New frameworks: murderous cleansing and democide * Ethnocide and cultural genocide * Gendercide * Politicide * Classicide * Urbicide * Auto-genocide * Genocide as a framework * PART TWO * THE SOCIOLOGY OF GENOCIDE *6 From Intentionality to a Structural Concept * Social action, social relations and conflict * Intention in the light of a sociology of action * Limits of intentionality * Social relations and a structure of conflict *7 Elements of Genocidal Conflict * Social groups, destruction and war * Social groups in genocide * The destruction of groups * Genocide as war *8 The Missing Concept of Genocide Studies * The civilian category and its social meaning * The civilian enemy * Civilians in international law * The social production of civilians * Civilians, combatants and social stratification * Civilian resistance and genocidal war *9 Explanations * From modernity to warfare * Types of genocide * Modernity * Culture and psychology * Economy * Politics * Warfare * Domestic and international *10 CONCLUSION * The Relevance of Conceptual Analysis * Genocide in 21st century politics * New historic conditions for genocide? * Contemporary challenge: the case of Darfur
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.1.2007 |
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| Zusatzinfo | black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 319 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7456-3183-5 / 0745631835 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7456-3183-7 / 9780745631837 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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