Genocide : a comprehensive introduction

Genocide : a comprehensive introduction / Adam Jones.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Adam, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Subjects:
Genocide.
Genocide > Case studies.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Overview
  • 1. The origins of genocide
  • Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity
  • The Vendée uprising
  • Zulu genocide
  • Naming genocide : Raphael Lemkin
  • Defining genocide : the UN Convention
  • Bounding genocide : comparative genocide studies
  • Discussion
  • Personal observations
  • Contested cases
  • Atlantic slavery
  • Area bombing and nuclear warfare
  • UN sanctions against Iraq
  • 9/11
  • Structural and institutional violence
  • Is genocide ever justified?
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 2. Imperialism, war, and social revolution
  • Imperialism and colonialism
  • Colonial and imperial genocides
  • Imperial famines
  • The Congo "rubber terror"
  • The Japanese in East and Southeast Asia
  • The US in Indochina
  • The Soviets in Afghanistan
  • A note on genocide and imperial dissolution
  • Genocide and war
  • The First World War and the dawn of industrial death
  • The Second World War and the "barbarization of warfare"
  • Genocide and social revolution
  • The nuclear revolution and "omnicide"
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • pt. 2. Cases
  • 3. Genocides of indigenous peoples
  • Introduction
  • Colonialism and the discourse of extinction
  • The conquest of the Americas
  • Spanish America
  • The United States and Canada
  • Other genocidal strategies
  • A contemporary case : the Maya of Guatemala
  • Australia's Aborigines and the Namibian Herero
  • Genocide in Australia
  • The Herero genocide
  • Denying genocide, celebrating genocide
  • Complexities and caveats
  • Indigenous revival
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 4. The Armenian genocide
  • Introduction
  • Origins of the genocide
  • War, massacre, and deportation
  • The course of the Armenian genocide
  • The aftermath
  • The denial
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 5. Stalin's terror
  • The Bolsheviks seize power
  • Collectivization and famine
  • The Gulag
  • The Great Purge of 1937-38
  • The war years
  • The destruction of national minorities
  • Stalin and genocide
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 6. The Jewish Holocaust
  • Introduction
  • Origins
  • "Ordinary Germans" and the Nazis
  • The turn to mass murder
  • Debating the Holocaust
  • Intentionalists vs. functionalists
  • Jewish resistance
  • The allies and the churches : could the Jews have been saved?
  • Willing executioners?
  • Israel and the Jewish Holocaust
  • Is the Jewish Holocaust "uniquely unique"?
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 7. Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge
  • Origins of the Khmer Rouge
  • War and revolution, 1970-75
  • A genocidal ideology
  • A policy of "urbicide", 1975
  • "Base people" vs. "new people"
  • Cambodia's holocaust, 1975-79
  • Genocide against Buddhists and ethnic minorities
  • Aftermath : politics and the quest for justice
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 8. Bosnia and Kosovo
  • Origins and onset
  • Gendercide and genocide in Bosnia
  • The international dimension
  • Kosovo, 1998-99
  • Aftermaths
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 9. Holocaust in Rwanda
  • Introduction : horror and shame
  • Background to genocide
  • Genocidal frenzy
  • Aftermath
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • pt. 3. Social science perspectives
  • 10. Psychological perspectives
  • Narcissism, greed, and fear
  • Narcissism
  • Greed
  • Fear
  • Genocide and humiliation
  • The psychology of perpetrators
  • The Zimbardo experiments
  • The psychology of rescuers
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 11. The sociology and anthropology of genocide
  • Introduction
  • Sociological perspectives
  • The sociology of modernity
  • Ethnicity and ethnic conflict
  • Ethnic conflict and violence "specialists"
  • "Middleman minorities"
  • Anthropological perspectives
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 12. Political science and international relations
  • Empirical investigations
  • The changing face of war
  • Democracy, war, and genocide/democide
  • Norms and prohibition regimes
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 13. Gendering genocide
  • Gendercide vs. root-and-branch genocide
  • Women and genocide
  • Gendercidal institutions
  • Genocide and violence against homosexuals
  • Are men more genocidal than women?
  • A note on gendered propaganda
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • pt. 4. The future of genocide
  • 14. Memory, forgetting, and denial
  • The struggle over historical memory
  • Germany and "the search for a usable past"
  • The politics of forgetting
  • Genocide denial : motives and strategies
  • Denial and free speech
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 15. Justice, truth, and redress
  • Leipzig, Constantinople, Nuremberg, Tokyo
  • The international criminal tribunals : Yugoslavia and Rwanda
  • Jurisdictional issues
  • The concept of a victim group
  • Gender and genocide
  • National trials
  • The "mixed tribunals" : Cambodia and Sierra Leone
  • Another kind of justice : Rwanda's gacaca experiment
  • The Pinochet case
  • The International Criminal Court (ICC)
  • International citizens' tribunals
  • Truth and reconciliation
  • The challenge of redress
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes
  • 16. Strategies of intervention and prevention
  • Warning signs
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • Sanctions
  • The United Nations
  • When is military intervention justified?
  • A standing "peace army"?
  • Ideologies and individuals
  • The role of the honest witness
  • Ideologies, religious and secular
  • Conclusion
  • Suggestions for further study
  • Notes.

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