ISBN:
9780199677917
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 675 Seiten
,
26 cm
Edition:
1. published in paperback
Year of publication:
2013
DDC:
304.663#n/a
Keywords:
Genocide Handbooks, manuals, etc
;
Völkermord
;
Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit
;
Menschenrechtsverletzung
;
Forschung
;
Handbuch
;
Erde
Abstract:
Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of 'genocide studies' has developed to offer analysis and comprehension. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies is the first book to subject both genocide and the young discipline it has spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Chapters examine secessionist and political genocides in modern Asia. Others treat the violent dynamics of European colonialism in Africa, the complex ethnic geography of the Great Lakes region, and the structural instability of the continent's northern horn. South and North America receive detailed coverage, as do the Ottoman Empire, Nazi-occupied Europe, and post-communist Eastern Europe. Sustained attention is paid to themes like gender, memory, the state, culture, ethnic cleansing, military intervention, the United Nations, and prosecutions. The work is multi-disciplinary, featuring the work of historians, anthropologists, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, and philosophers. Uniquely combining empirical reconstruction and conceptual analysis, this Handbook presents and analyses regions of genocide and the entire field of 'genocide studies' in one substantial volume.
Note:
Originally published: 2010
,
Literaturangaben, Register
,
Concepts
,
Raphael Lemkin, culture, and the concept of genocide
,
'Ethnic cleansing' versus genocide?
,
Gender and genocide
,
The state and genocide
,
Genocide and memory
,
Interdisciplinary perspectives
,
The law and genocide
,
Sociology and genocide
,
Political science and genocide
,
Anthropology and genocide
,
Social psychology and genocide
,
Philosophy and genocide
,
Premodern and Early Modern genocide
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Antiquity
,
Early medieval Europe
,
Central and late medieval Europe
,
Colonial Latin America
,
Rethinking genocide in North America
,
Genocide in the late modern world
,
Genocide and mass violence in the 'heart of darkness' : Africa in the colonial period
,
Genocide at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire
,
Mass deportations, ethnic cleansing, and genocidal politics in the later Russian Empire and the USSR
,
The Nazi empire
,
Twentieth century China : ethnic assimilation and inter-group violence
,
Political genocides in postcolonial Asia
,
State violence and secessionist rebellions in Asia
,
National security doctrine in Latin America : the genocide question
,
Genocide and population displacement in post-communist Eastern Europe
,
Genocidal warfare in North-East Africa
,
War and genocide in Africa's Great Lakes region since independence
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The contemporary world : rules and responses
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The United Nations, the Cold War, and its legacy
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Military intervention
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Punishment as prevention? : the politics of prosecuting génocidaires
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From past to future : future prospects for genocide and its avoidance in the twenty-first century
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