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Genocide : approaches, case studies, and responses / edited by Graham C. Kinloch & Raj P. Mohan ; foreword by Erik Allardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genocide.
- Genocide--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Twenty authors analyze factors behind genocidal situations worldwide, with detailed case studies, and an evaluation of attempts to prevent genocide and of the implications for human rights policies, with a particular concern to develop new and practical insights"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Genocide: introduction / Graham C. Kinloch & Raj P. Mohan
- Theoretical approaches to genocide
- The possible causes and reduction of genocide: an exploration / Graham C. Kinloch
- Modern societies and collective violence: the framework of interdisciplinary genocide studies / Mihran Dabag
- Archeology of evil: the urge to genocide / Brij Mohan
- On genocide, old and new / Franco Ferrarotti
- Conceptual approaches to genocide
- The success and failure of "genocide" / Arthur S. Wilke
- The decisive generation: self-authorization and delegations in deciding a genocide / Mihran Dabag
- Case studies of genocide
- Strategies of exclusion: the genocide of the Herero in German colonial discourse / Medardus Brehl
- The ecology of genocide in Rwanda / Tarique Niazi
- The forgotten dead: representations of the past in the Tibetan refugee community in India / Lydia Aran
- Comparative analyses of genocide
- Genocide as a possible response to westernization: government treatment of minorities in Afghanistan and Iran / Raj P. Mohan
- Preventing genocide in Chile and Northern Ireland: the role of elites / Max Koch
- Responses to genocide
- Witnessing the catastrophe / Kristin Platt
- Genocide and I / Kurt H. Wolff
- Genocide: a bibliography / James Jenkins.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786611395476
- 1-281-39547-1
- 0-87586-381-7
- OCLC:
- 476114281
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