What is genocide? / Martin Shaw.
Shaw, Martin.
2007
HV6322.7 .S53 2007 (Mapit)
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Title What is genocide? / Martin Shaw.
Author Shaw, Martin.
ISBN 9780745631837 (pbk.)
0745631835 (pbk.)
9780745631820
0745631827
Publication Details Cambridge ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2007.
Language English
Description ix, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number HV6322.7 .S53 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.6/63
Summary "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 existing literature on genocide. Shaw argues that what distinguishes genocide from more legitimate warfare is that the 'enemies' targeted are groups and individuals of a civilian character. He vividly illustrates his argument from a wide range of historical episodes, and shows how the question 'What is genocide?' matters politically whenever populations are threatened by violence."--BOOK JACKET.
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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.

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