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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817891903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2005

ISBN

9786611395476

1-281-39547-1

0-87586-381-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KinlochGraham Charles

MohanRaj P

AllardtErik

Disciplina

304.6/63

304.663

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.