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What Is Genocide?

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ISBN-10: 0745631827

ISBN-13: 9780745631820

Edition: 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Martin Shaw, Gareth Schott

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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 lsquo;enemiesrsquo; 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 lsquo;what is genocide?rsquo; matters politically whenever populations are threatened by violence. This…    
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Book details

List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 3/12/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Martin Shaw is a mythologist, storyteller, and wilderness rites-of-passage guide based in Devonshire, England. Shaw gave up a lucrative music contract to pursue the study of myth while living for four years in a tent in the wilderness of Wales. An international teacher, he tours the United States and Canada annually and is visiting lecturer on Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Leadership program at Oxford University.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Sociological Crime: Social classification and genocide
Studying genocide?
Disciplining the study of genocide
Sociology and the sociological crime
Revisiting concepts and classification
Contradictions of Genocide Theory
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
The Maximal Standard: The significance of the Holocaust
Holocaust 'uniqueness'
The Holocaust standard in comparative study
Holocausts and genocides
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
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
Sociology of Genocide
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
Elements of Genocidal Conflict: Social groups, social destruction and war
Social groups in genocide
The destruction of groups
Genocide as war
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
Explanations: From modernity to warfare
Types of genocide
Modernity
Culture and psychology
Economy
Politics
Warfare
Domestic and international
Conclusion
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