Advances in macromolecules perspectives and applications / Maria Vittoria Russo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910773794903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dordrecht ; New York, : Springer, 2010
• ISBN: 9789400790667
• Descrizione fisica: VI, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
• Disciplina: 572
• Locazione: SC1
• Collocazione: 572-RUS-1
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Genocide [[electronic resource] ] : approaches, case studies, and responses / / edited by Graham C. Kinloch & Raj P. Mohan ; foreword by Erik Allardt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782509403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Algora Pub., c2005
• ISBN: 9786611395476; 1-281-39547-1; 0-87586-381-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KinlochGraham Charles; MohanRaj P; AllardtErik
• Disciplina: 304.6/63
• Soggetti: Genocide
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Genocide: introduction / Graham C. Kinloch & Raj P. Mohan -- Theoretical approaches to genocide -- The possible causes and reduction of genocide: an exploration / Graham C. Kinloch -- Modern societies and collective violence: the framework of interdisciplinary genocide studies / Mihran Dabag -- Archeology of evil: the urge to genocide / Brij Mohan -- On genocide, old and new / Franco Ferrarotti -- Conceptual approaches to genocide -- The success and failure of "genocide" / Arthur S. Wilke -- The decisive generation: self-authorization and delegations in deciding a genocide / Mihran Dabag -- Case studies of genocide -- Strategies of exclusion: the genocide of the Herero in German colonial discourse / Medardus Brehl -- The ecology of genocide in Rwanda / Tarique Niazi -- The forgotten dead: representations of the past in the Tibetan refugee community in India / Lydia Aran -- Comparative analyses of genocide -- Genocide as a possible response to westernization: government treatment of minorities in Afghanistan and Iran / Raj P. Mohan -- Preventing genocide in Chile and Northern Ireland: the role of elites / Max Koch -- Responses to genocide -- Witnessing the catastrophe / Kristin Platt -- Genocide and I / Kurt H. Wolff -- Genocide: a bibliography / James Jenkins.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Twenty authors analyze factors behind genocidal situations worldwide, with detailed case studies, and an evaluation of attempts to prevent genocide and of the implications for human rights policies, with a particular concern to develop new and practical insights"--Provided by publisher.