Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction 3rd Edition by Adam Jones, ISBN-13: 978-1138823846

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction 3rd Edition by Adam Jones, ISBN-13: 978-1138823846

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• Publisher: ‎ Routledge; 3rd edition (December 19, 2016)
• Language: ‎ English
• 870 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1138823848
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1138823846

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity’s enduring blights.

Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field, this unique book:

• Provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept, including the concept of genocidal intent, and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes.
• Discusses the role of state-building, imperialism, war, and social revolution in fuelling genocide.
• Supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocides worldwide, each with a supplementary study.
• Explores perspectives on genocide from the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science/international relations, and gender studies.
• Considers “The Future of Genocide,” with attention to historical memory and genocide denial; initiatives for truth, justice, and redress; and strategies of intervention and prevention.

Highlights of the new edition include:

• Nigeria/Biafra as a “contested case” of genocide
• Extensive new material on the Kurds, Islamic State/ISIS, and the civil wars/genocide in Iraq and Syria.
• Conflict and atrocities in the world’s newest state, South Sudan.
• The role, activities, and constraints of the United Nations Office of Genocide Prevention.
• Many new testimonies from genocide victims, survivors, witnesses―and perpetrators.
• Dozens of new images, including a special photographic essay.

Written in clear and lively prose with over 240 illustrations and maps, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction remains the indispensable text for new generations of genocide study and scholarship.

An accompanying website (www.genocidetext.net) features a broad selection of supplementary materials, teaching aids, and Internet resources.

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1 Overview
1 The Origins of Genocide
Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity
The Vendée uprising
Zulu genocide
Naming genocide: Raphael Lemkin
Defining genocide: The UN Convention
Bounding genocide: Comparative genocide studies
Discussion
What is destroyed in genocide?
Multiple and overlapping identities
Dynamism and contingency
The question of genocidal intent
Contested cases of genocide
Atlantic slavery—and after
Area bombing and nuclear warfare
The Biafra war
UN sanctions against Iraq
9/11: Terrorism as genocide?
Structural and institutional violence
Is genocide ever justified?
Further study
Notes
2 State and Empire; War and Revolution
The state, imperialism, and genocide
Imperial famines
The Congo “rubber terror”
The Japanese in East and Southeast Asia
The US in Indochina
The Soviets in Afghanistan
Imperial ascent and dissolution
Genocide and war
The First World War and the dawn of industrial death
The Second World War and the “barbarization of warfare”
Genocide and social revolution
The nuclear revolution and “omnicide”
Further study
Notes
Part 2 Cases
3 Genocides of Indigenous Peoples
Introduction
Colonialism and the discourse of extinction
The conquest of the Americas
Spanish America
The United States and Canada
Other genocidal strategies
Australia’s Aborigines and the Namibian Hereros
Genocide in Australia
The Herero genocide
Denying genocide, celebrating genocide
Complexities and caveats
Indigenous revival
Further study
Notes
The genocide of Guatemala’s Mayans
4 The Ottoman Destruction of Christian Minorities
Introduction
Origins of the genocide
War, deportation, and massacre
The Armenian genocide
The Assyrian genocide
The Pontian Greek genocide
Aftermath: Attempts at justice
Turkey: Denial … and growing recognition
Further study
Notes
Iraq, Syria, and the rise of Islamic State (IS)
5 Stalin and Mao
The Soviet Union and Stalinism
1917: The Bolsheviks seize power
Collectivization and famine
The Gulag
The Great Purge of 1937–1938
The war years
The destruction of national minorities
China and Maoism
Stalin, Mao, and genocide
Further study
Notes
Chechnya
6 The Jewish Holocaust
Introduction
Origins
“Ordinary Germans” and the Nazis
The turn to mass murder
Debating the Holocaust
Intentionalists vs. functionalists
Jewish resistance
The Allies and the churches: Could the Jews have been saved?
Willing executioners?
Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust
Is the Jewish Holocaust “uniquely unique”?
Further study
Notes
The Nazis’ other victims
7 Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge
Origins of the Khmer Rouge
War and revolution, 1970–1975
A genocidal ideology
A policy of “urbicide,” 1975
“Base people” vs. “New people”
Cambodia’s Holocaust, 1975–1979
Genocide against Buddhists and ethnic minorities
Aftermath: Politics and the quest for justice
Further study
Notes
Indonesia and East Timor
8 Bosnia and Kosovo
Origins and onset
Gendercide and genocide in Bosnia
The international dimension
Kosovo, 1998–1999
Aftermaths
Images of Kosovo
Further study
Notes
Genocide in Bangladesh
9 Genocide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
The African Great Lakes countries in regional context
Rwanda, 1994: horror and shame
Background to genocide
Genocidal frenzy
Congo and Africa’s “first world war”
1996–1997: The “genocide of the camps”
The Second Congo war
The Burundian imbroglio
Great Lakes aftermaths
Further study
Notes
Darfur, South Sudan, South Kordofan
Photo Essay
Part 3 Social Science Perspectives
10 Psychological Perspectives
Narcissism, greed, fear, humiliation
Narcissism
Greed
Fear
Humiliation
The psychology of perpetrators
The Milgram experiments
The Stanford prison experiments
The psychology of rescuers
Further study
Notes
11 The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide
Introduction
Sociological perspectives
The sociology of modernity
Ethnicity and ethnic conflict
Ethnic conflict and violence “specialists”
“Middleman minorities”
Anthropological perspectives
Further study
Notes
12 Political Science and International Relations
Empirical investigations
The changing face of war
Democracy, war, and genocide/democide
Norms and prohibition regimes
Further study
Notes
13 Gendering Genocide
Gendercide vs. root-and-branch genocide
Women as genocidal targets
Gendercidal institutions
Genocidal men, genocidal women
A note on gendered propaganda
Further study
Notes
Part 4 The Future of Genocide
14 Memory, Forgetting, and Denial
Contested memories: three cases
I. Germany
II. Japan
III. Argentina
Forgetting
Genocide denial: Motives and strategies
Denial and free speech
Further study
Notes
15 Justice, Truth, and Redress
Leipzig, Constantinople, Nuremberg, Tokyo
The international criminal tribunals: Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Juridical contributions
National trials
The “mixed tribunals”: Cambodia and Sierra Leone
Another kind of justice: Rwanda’s gacaca experiment
The Pinochet case
The International Criminal Court (ICC)
International citizens’ tribunals
Truth and reconciliation
The challenge of redress
The role of apology
Further study
Notes
16 Strategies of Intervention and Prevention
Warning signs
Humanitarian intervention
Sanctions
The United Nations
When is military intervention justified?
A standing “peace army”?
Ideologies and individuals
The role of the honest witness
Ideologies, religious and secular
Personal responsibility
Conclusion
Further study
Notes
Index

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