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Record Nr.

UNINA9910985624803321

Autore

Basso Andrew R

Titolo

Destroy Them Gradually : Displacement As Atrocity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781978831322

1978831323

9781978831308

1978831307

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 pages)

Collana

Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights Series

Disciplina

364.4

Soggetti

Atrocities

Crimes against humanity

Forced migration

Genocide

Internally displaced persons

POLITICAL SCIENCE / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Displacement Atrocity Crimes -- 1 Extirpation: Understanding Annihilatory Forced Displacement -- 2 Exposure: A Theory of Displacement Atrocity Crimes -- Part 2 German South-West Africa -- 3 Trepidation: Colonized Namibia and Violent Horizons (1652–1904) -- 4 Extermination: Germany’s Genocide of the Herero (1904–1908) -- 5 Inescapability: Germany’s Genocide of the Nama (1905–1908) -- Part 3 The Ottoman Empire and Turkey -- 6 Collapse: The Nadir of the Ottoman Empire (1839–1915) -- 7 Excision: The Ottoman Genocide of Christian Minorities (1914–1925) -- 8 Neurosis: The Hamidian Massacres (1894–1897) -- Part 4 Central and Eastern Europe -- 9 Metamorphosis: A World Made New (Ninth Century– 1945) -- 10 Catharsis: The Expulsion of Germans (1943–1950) -- 11 Desolation: The Holocaust (1933–1945) -- Part 5 Climate Violence and Conclusions



-- 12 Tragedy: Logics of Displacement Climate Violence in the Twenty-First Century -- 13 Farce: To Continue to Destroy Them Gradually? -- 14 Praxis: Seeking Justice and Disrupting Pathways -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of forced labor and attrition, to ethnically homogenize regions by moving victims out of their homes and lands, and to destroy populations by depriving them of vital daily needs. Displacement has been treated as a corollary practice to crimes committed, not a central aspect of their perpetration. Destroying Them Gradually examines four cases that illuminate why perpetrators have destroyed populations using displacement policies: Germany’s genocide of the Herero (1904–1908); Ottoman genocides of Christian minorities (1914–1925); expulsions of Germans from East/Central Europe (1943–1952); and climate violence (twenty-first century). Because displacement has been typically framed as a secondary aspect of mass atrocities, existing scholarship overlooks how perpetrators use it as a means of executing destruction rather than a vehicle for moving people to a specific location to commit atrocities.