What is genocide? / Martin Shaw.
"In this intellectually and politically potent new book. Martin Shaw proposes a way through the confusion surrounding the idea of genocide. He considers the origins and development of the concept and its relationships to other forms of political violence. Offering a radical critique of the exis...
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Cambridge ; Malden, Mass. :
Polity,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The sociological crime
- Social classification and genocide
- Studying genocide?
- Disciplining the study of genocide
- Sociology and the sociological crime
- Revisiting concepts and classification
- pt. I. Contradictions of genocide theory
- 2. Neglected foundations
- Genocide as social destruction and its connections with war
- Lemkin's sociological framework
- Genocide and the laws of war
- Separation of genocide from war
- Narrowing genocide to physical destruction
- Conclusion
- 3. The maximal standard
- The significance of the Holocaust
- Holocaust 'uniqueness'
- The Holocaust standard in comparative study
- Holocausts and genocides
- 4. The minimal euphemism
- The substitution of 'ethnic cleansing' for genocide
- Origins of 'cleansing' terminology
- 'Cleansing' and genocide
- 'Non-genocidal' expulsions?
- Peaceful, legal 'transfers' and 'exchanges'?
- The territorial dimension
- 5. Conceptual proliferation
- The many '-cides' of genocide
- New frameworks : murderous cleansing and democide
- Ethnocide and cultural genocide
- Gendercide
- Politicide
- Classicide
- Urbicide
- Auto-genocide
- Genocide as a framework
- pt. II. Sociology of genocide
- 6. From intentionality to a structural concept
- Social action, social relations and conflict
- Intention in the light of a sociology of action
- Limits of intentionality
- Social relations and a structure of conflict
- 7. Elements of genocidal conflict
- Social groups, social destruction and war
- Social groups in genocide
- The destruction of groups
- Genocide as war
- 8. The missing concept
- The civilian category and its social meaning
- The civilian enemy
- Civilians in international law
- Social production of civilians
- Civilians, combatants and social stratification
- Civilian resistance and genocidal war
- 9. Explanations
- From modernity to warfare
- Types of genocide
- Modernity
- Culture and psychology
- Economy
- Politics
- Warfare
- Domestic and international
- Conclusion
- 10. The relevance of conceptual analysis
- Genocide in twenty-first century politics
- A new definition
- New historic conditions for genocide?
- Contemporary challenge : the case of Darfur
- Notes
- References and bibliography
- Index.