The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies

690 Pages·2010·2.81 MB·English

by  Donald Bloxham

the oxford handbook of
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the oxford handbook of
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GENOCIDE
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Edited by
DONALD BLOXHAM
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A. DIRK MOSES
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ONTENTS
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Listof Contributors ix
Editor’s Introduction: ChangingThemesinthe Studyof Genocide 1
DONALDBLOXHAM ANDA.DIRKMOSES
PART I: CONCEPTS
1.Raphael Lemkin,Culture,andthe Concept ofGenocide 19
A.DIRKMOSES
2.‘EthnicCleansing’versus Genocide? 42
BENJAMINLIEBERMAN
3.GenderandGenocide 61
ELISAVONJOEDEN-FORGEY
4.The StateandGenocide 81
ANTONWEISS-WENDT
5.GenocideandMemory 102
DANSTONE
PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
6.The Law andGenocide 123
WILLIAMA.SCHABAS
7.SociologyandGenocide 142
MARTINSHAW
8.Political ScienceandGenocide 163
SCOTTSTRAUS
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9.AnthropologyandGenocide 182
KEVINLEWISO’NEILL
10.SocialPsychologyandGenocide 198
PAULA.ROTH
11.Philosophy andGenocide 217
MARTINSHUSTER
PART III: PREMODERN AND EARLY
MODERN GENOCIDE
12.Genocide inthe AncientWorld 239
HANSVANWEES
13.EarlyMedievalEurope:the Caseof BritainandIreland 259
JAMESE.FRASER
14.CentralandLate MedievalEurope 280
LENSCALES
15.ColonialLatinAmerica 304
NICOLASA.ROBINS
16.Rethinking GenocideinNorthAmerica 322
GREGORYD.SMITHERS
PART IV: GENOCIDE IN THE LATE MODERN WORLD
17.Genocide andMassViolenceinthe ‘Heart ofDarkness’:
Africa in theColonial Period 345
DOMINIKJ.SCHALLER
18.Genocide atthe Twilightofthe OttomanEmpire 365
HILMARKAISER
19.Mass Deportations,EthnicCleansing,andGenocidal
Politics intheLater RussianEmpireandthe USSR 386
NICOLASWERTH
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20.The NaziEmpire 407
CHRISTOPHERR.BROWNING
21.Twentieth-CenturyChina:Ethnic AssimilationandIntergroup Violence 426
URADYNE.BULAG
22. Political GenocidesinPostcolonial Asia 445
ROBERTCRIBB
23.State-Sponsored ViolenceandSecessionistRebellions inAsia 466
GEOFFREYROBINSON
24.National SecurityDoctrineinLatinAmerica: the GenocideQuestion 489
DANIELFEIERSTEIN
25.GenocideandPopulation Displacement inPost-Communist 509
EasternEurope
CATHIE CARMICHAEL
26.Genocidal WarfareinNorth-EastAfrica 529
ALEXDEWAAL
27.WarandGenocideinAfrica’sGreat Lakes since Independence 550
OMARMCDOOM
PART V: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD:
RULES AND RESPONSES
28. TheUnitedNations, TheCold War, andits Legacy 579
GERDHANKEL
29.Military Intervention 597
ALEXJ.BELLAMY
30. PunishmentasPrevention? ThePolitics ofProsecuting Ge´nocidaires 617
DONALD BLOXHAMANDDEVINO.PENDAS
31.FromPasttoFuture: Prospectsfor Genocide
andits Avoidance inthe Twenty-FirstCentury 638
MARK LEVENE
Index 661
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IST OF ONTRIBUTORS
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Alex J. Bellamy is Professor of International Relations and Executive Director of
the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at the University of
Queensland,Australia.HismostrecentbookisResponsibilitytoProtect:TheGlobal
Effort toEndMassAtrocities(2009).
Donald Bloxham is Professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh.
He is author of The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the
Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (2005), winner of the Raphael Lemkin
Award for 2007; The Final Solution: A Genocide (2009); and Genocide on Trial:
WarCrimesTrialsandtheFormationofHolocaustHistoryandMemory(2001).Heis
editor,withMarkLevene,oftheOxfordUniversityPressmonographseries Zones
of Violence.
Christopher R. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His publications include Ordinary
Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992) and The
Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–
March1942(2004).
Uradyn E. Bulag is reader in social anthropology at the Universityof Cambridge.
AuthorofNationalismandHybridityinMongolia(ClarendonPress,1998),andThe
Mongols at China’s Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2002), his interests broadly span East Asia and Inner Asia, especially
China andMongolia.
Cathie Carmichael is a Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of
East Anglia. She is author of Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans (2002) and Genocide
before the Holocaust (2009), co-editor of Language and Nationalism in Europe
(2000) with the late Stephen Barbour, and co-author of Slovenia and the Slovenes
(2000)withJamesGow.
Robert Cribb is Professor of Indonesian History at the Australian National Uni-
versity.HispublicationsincludeTheIndonesianKillingsof1965–1966:Studiesfrom
JavaandBali(1990),GangstersandRevolutionaries:TheJakartaPeople’sMilitiaand
theIndonesianRevolution1945–1949(1991),and(withLiNarangoa)ImperialJapan
andNational Identities inAsia,1895–1945 (2003).