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Shaw Martin <1947-> |
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Titolo |
What is genocide? / / Martin Shaw |
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Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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0-7456-8710-5 |
9780745687100 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (496 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Introduction: The Importance of Definition; Lemkin and the necessity of classification; The changing problem of definition; A sociological and historical concept; Structure of the book; The argument; Notes; PART I: THE GENOCIDE IDEA; 2 Raphael Lemkin and the Idea of Genocide; Lemkin's sociological framework; Biology and the 'genos'; Culture and nations; Colonization and forced removal; The laws of minorities and war; Conclusion; Notes; 3 The Concept after Lemkin; Losing the nexus with war; The Genocide Convention |
A legal and a sociological categorySociologists redefine genocide; Killing as a means, not the meaning, of group destruction; Conclusion; Notes; 4 The Holocaust Standard; 'Uniqueness'; A standard for comparative study?; Holocausts and genocides; Conclusion; Notes; 5 The 'Cleansing' Euphemism; Origins of the terminology; 'Cleansing' and genocide; Non-genocidal expulsions?; Peaceful 'transfers' and 'exchanges'?; Territory and genocide; Conclusion; Notes; 6 The Many 'Cides' of Genocide; Democide; Ethnocide; Gendercide; Politicide; Classicide; Urbicide; Auto-genocide; Conclusion; Notes |
PART II: AGENCY AND STRUCTURE IN GENOCIDE7 From Intentionality to a Structural Concept; 'Special' and 'ulterior' intent; Rethinking intentions; Weber's template for 'intention'; Limits of intentionality; Intentions and outcomes; Genocide as social relationship; Structural contexts and unintended consequences; Conclusion; Notes; 8 The |
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Structure of Genocide: Conflict and War; Genocide is not inter-group conflict; Genocide as a type of war; Linkage to degenerate war; Hybridity of genocide and war; Spatial character of genocide; Conclusion; Notes; 9 Actors and Process in Genocidal Conflict |
GenocidistsThird parties; Target 'groups' in the genocide literature; Sociology and 'groups'; The 'destruction' of groups; Civilians, the missing concept; Resistance; Conclusion; Notes; 10 Structural Contexts: Explaining Modern Genocide; Types of genocide; Modernity; Ideology, culture and psychology; Economy; Politics; Warfare; International context; Conclusion; Notes; 11 Conclusion: New Definitions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; End User License Agreement |
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