What is genocide? / / Martin Shaw
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| Autore: |
Shaw Martin <1947->
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| Titolo: |
What is genocide? / / Martin Shaw
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (496 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 304.6/63 |
| Soggetto topico: | Genocide |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 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 | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | What is genocide |
| ISBN: | 0-7456-8710-5 |
| 9780745687100 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910157428903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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