The problems of genocide : permanent security and the language of transgression
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The problems of genocide : permanent security and the language of transgression
(Human rights in history)
Cambridge University Press, 2021
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law, atop which sits genocide as the 'crime of crimes', blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death, like bombing cities, and the 'collateral damage' of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide, then, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. The Problems of Genocide contends that this violence is the consequence of 'permanent security' imperatives: the striving of states, and armed groups seeking to found states, to make themselves invulnerable to threats.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Problems of Genocide
- Part I. The Language of Transgression: 1. The Language of Transgression, 1500s to 1890s
- 2. The Language of Transgression, 1890s to 1930s
- 3. Raphael Lemkin and the Protection of Small Nations
- 4. The Many Types of Destruction
- 5. Inventing Genocide in the 1940s
- Part II. Permanent Security: 6. Permanent Security in History: Empire and Settler Colonialism
- 7. The Nazi Empire as Illiberal Permanent Security
- 8. Human Rights, Population 'Transfer', and the Foundation of the Postwar Order
- 9. Imagining Nation-Security in South Asia and Palestine: Partition, Population Exchange, and Communal Hostages
- Part III. The Language of Transgression, Permanent Security, and Holocaust Memory: 10. Lemkin, Arendt, Vietnam, and Liberal Permanent Security
- 11. Genocide Studies and the Repression of the Political
- 12. Holocaust Memory, Exemplary Victims, and Permanent Security Today.
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