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

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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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