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Preface and Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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The Sociological Crime: Social classification and genocide | |
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Studying genocide? | |
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Disciplining the study of genocide | |
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Sociology and the sociological crime | |
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Revisiting concepts and classification | |
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Contradictions of Genocide Theory | |
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Neglected Foundations: Genocide as social destruction and its connections with war | |
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Lemkin's sociological framework | |
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Genocide and the laws of war | |
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Separation of genocide from war | |
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Narrowing genocide to physical destruction | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Maximal Standard: The significance of the Holocaust | |
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Holocaust 'uniqueness' | |
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The Holocaust standard in comparative study | |
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Holocausts and genocides | |
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The Minimal Euphemism: The substitution of 'ethnic cleansing' for genocide | |
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Origins of 'cleansing' terminology | |
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'Cleansing' and genocide | |
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'Non-genocidal' expulsions? | |
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Peaceful, legal 'transfers' and 'exchanges'? | |
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The territorial dimension | |
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Conceptual Proliferation: The many '-cides' of genocide | |
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New frameworks: murderous cleansing and democide | |
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Ethnocide and cultural genocide | |
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Gendercide | |
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Politicide | |
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Classicide | |
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Urbicide | |
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Auto-genocide | |
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Genocide as a framework | |
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Sociology of Genocide | |
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From Intentionality to a Structural Concept: Social action, social relations and conflict | |
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Intention in the light of a sociology of action | |
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Limits of intentionality | |
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Social relations and a structure of conflict | |
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Elements of Genocidal Conflict: Social groups, social destruction and war | |
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Social groups in genocide | |
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The destruction of groups | |
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Genocide as war | |
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The Missing Concept: The civilian category and its social meaning | |
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The civilian enemy | |
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Civilians in international law | |
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Social production of civilians | |
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Civilians, combatants and social stratification | |
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Civilian resistance and genocidal war | |
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Explanations: From modernity to warfare | |
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Types of genocide | |
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Modernity | |
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Culture and psychology | |
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Economy | |
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Politics | |
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Warfare | |
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Domestic and international | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Relevance of Conceptual Analysis: Genocide in twenty-first-century politics | |
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A new definition | |
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New historic conditions for genocide? | |
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Contemporary challenge: the case of Darfur | |
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Notes | |
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References and Bibliography | |
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Index | |