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The Politics of Annihilation : A Genealogy of Genocide /

How did a powerful concept in international justice evolve into an inequitable response to mass suffering? For a term coined just seventy-five years ago, genocide has become a remarkably potent idea. But has it transformed from a truly novel vision for international justice into a conservative, even...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meiches, Benjamin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : genocide as political discourse
  • Groups, paradoxes of identity, and the racialization of global politics
  • Parts, wholes, and the erasure of indigenous life
  • Destruction and the creativity of violence
  • Desire, international law, and the problem of unintentional genocide
  • The logistics of prevention and the fantasy of preemption
  • Genocide as politics and the horror of plasticity
  • The sense of genocide and the politics of the future.