LEADER 05348oam 2200673I 450 001 9910452289003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-138-81598-5 010 $a0-203-49401-6 010 $a1-135-04715-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203494011 035 $a(CKB)2550000001096319 035 $a(EBL)1244924 035 $a(OCoLC)852758174 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000983646 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12488597 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983646 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10989115 035 $a(PQKB)11012852 035 $a(OCoLC)852195707 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1244924 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1244924 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10728220 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL502897 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001096319 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe scourge of genocide $eessays and reflections /$fAdam Jones 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (873 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge advances in international relations and global politics ;$v113 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-69053-6 311 $a1-299-71646-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: diffusing genocide studies, defusing genocides; Outline of the volume; Part I: Theory; 2. Genocide and crimes against humanity; Genocide; Challenges of intervention; Understanding crimes against humanity; Conclusion; 3. Encompassing genocide; Introduction; Conceiving and authoring the project; Encompassing the subject; Illustrating genocide; Individualizing victims, perpetrators, and bystanders; Precluding paralysis 327 $aShaping the citizen and preventing the crime4. Genocide as political violence; The question of severity; The international law dimension; The Whitaker Report; Recent legal innovations and remaining quandaries; Political violence in comparative genocide studies; The Cambodia "autogenocide" debate; Alternative framings: "politicide" and "democide"; Genocide, war, and political violence; Conclusion; 5. The ethics of genocide; Introduction; Origin; Intent; Justification; Denial; Intervention; Justice; Conclusion 327 $a6. Communicating genocide: destructive and constructive uses of communication in modern mass killingIntroduction: Ottomans and Armenians; Genocide and communication; Media as genocidal instruments; Genocidal discourse; Rumor, gossip, and denunciation; Communication and genocide prevention; Other genocide-prevention strategies; Conclusion; 7. Bosnia and Herzegovina: media and security after Dayton; Media and security: a theoretical perspective; Media in ex-Yugoslavia; Bosnian media, ethnic mobilization, and civil war; Media and security after Dayton; The media and intercommunal tensions 327 $aProfessionalism and securityConclusion; 8. Gender, genocide, and mass violence; Feminist IR and comparative genocide studies: some parallels; Genocide and gender: the historical record and contemporary analysis; Gendercidal institutions; Gendering perpetrators; Humanitarian challenges; 9. Imagi(ni)ng gender and conflict; I; II; III; IV; Coda; 10. Parainstitutional violence in Latin America; Death squads; Parainstitutionality in Colombia; Warlordism and the Colombian paramilitaries; An "organic" paramilitarism: Peru and the rondas campesinas; Future directions 327 $a11. Subaltern genocide: genocides by the oppressedSubaltern genocide in theory and practice (with Nicholas Robins); Subaltern genocide and comparative genocide studies; On the genocidal aspect of certain subaltern uprisings; Slave uprisings; Native rebellions; Peasant jacqueries; Modern anti-colonial rebellioans; 12. "When the rabbit's got the gun": subaltern genocide and the genocidal continuum; Performance; Carnivals and curses; Androcidal feminism; Atrocity; "Understandably very angry": Jews over Germans; Subaltern hate crimes and "market-dominant minorities" 327 $aPrison rape in the United States 330 $a

The Scourge of Genocide collects essays, reviews, and reportage on the subjects of genocide and crimes against humanity by Adam Jones, recently selected as one of ""Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide."" The volume includes a number of previously-unpublished essays, and explores a range of debates and approaches in comparative genocide studies, such as: