Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction / Edition 3

by Adam Jones

Overview

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. Designed as a text for undergraduate and graduate students from a range of disciplines, it will also appeal to non-specialists and general readers.

Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field, this unique book:

• Provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept, including the concept of genocidal intent and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes.
• Discusses the role of state-building, imperialism, war, and social revolution in fueling genocide.
• Supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocides worldwide, each with a supplementary study.
• Explores perspectives on genocide from the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science/international relations, and gender studies.
• Considers the future of genocide, with attention to historical memory and genocide denial; initiatives for truth, justice, and redress; and strategies of intervention and prevention.

Highlights of the new edition include:

• New case studies of the Uyghur genocide in the People’s Republic of China, the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, and Muslims in India.
• The historical and archaeological legacy of genocide.
• New and vivid testimonies of survivors and witnesses to genocide.

This significantly revised fourth edition will remain an indispensable text for new generations of genocide study and scholarship. An accompanying website (www.genocidetext.net) features a selection of supplementary materials, teaching aids, and Internet resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138823846
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/19/2016
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	908
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adam Jones, PhD, was born in Singapore in 1963 and grew up in England and Canada. He is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia–Okanagan in Kelowna, BC. He has published various sole-authored and edited books on genocide and related themes, including Sites of Genocide (2022) and The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections (2013), as well as works on mass media and political transition. Jones has lived and/or traveled in over 100 countries on every populated continent. His "Global Photo Archive" of more than 26,000 Creative Commons images has been used online by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC, The Guardian, and The Atlantic, among many others (see www.flickr.com/adam_jones/albums/). He has served as an expert consultant for the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations     xiii
About the author     xv
Introduction     xviii
Overview     1
The Origins of Genocide     3
Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity     3
The Vendee uprising     6
Zulu genocide     7
Naming genocide: Raphael Lemkin     8
Defining genocide: The UN Convention     12
Bounding genocide: Comparative genocide studies     14
Discussion     19
Personal observations     22
Contested cases     23
Atlantic slavery     23
Area bombing and nuclear warfare     24
UN sanctions against Iraq     25
9/11     26
Structural and institutional violence     27
Is genocide ever justified?     28
Suggestions for further study     31
Notes     32
Imperialism, War, and Social Revolution     39
Imperialism and colonialism     39
Colonial and imperial genocides     40
Imperial famines     41
The Congo "rubber terror"     42
The Japanese in East and Southeast Asia     44
The US in Indochina     46
The Soviets in Afghanistan     47
A note on genocide and imperial dissolution     48
Genocide and war     48
The First World War and the dawn of industrial death     51
The Second World War and the "barbarization of warfare"     53
Genocide and social revolution     55
The nuclear revolution and "omnicide"     56
Suggestions for further study     59
Notes     60
Cases     65
Genocides of Indigenous Peoples     67
Introduction     67
Colonialism and the discourse of extinction     68
The conquest of the Americas     70
Spanish America     70
The United States and Canada     72
Other genocidal strategies     75
A contemporary case: The Maya of Guatemala     77
Australia's Aborigines and the Namibian Herero     78
Genocide in Australia     78
The Herero genocide     80
Denying genocide, celebrating genocide     81
Complexities and caveats     83
Indigenous revival     85
Suggestions for further study     87
Notes     89
The Armenian Genocide      101
Introduction     101
Origins of the genocide     102
War, massacre, and deportation     105
The course of the Armenian genocide     106
The aftermath     112
The denial     113
Suggestions for further study     115
Notes     116
Stalin's Terror     124
The Bolsheviks seize power     125
Collectivization and famine     127
The Gulag     128
The Great Purge of 1937-38     129
The war years     131
The destruction of national minorities     134
Stalin and genocide     135
Suggestions for further study     137
Notes     138
The Jewish Holocaust     147
Introduction     147
Origins     148
"Ordinary Germans" and the Nazis     150
The turn to mass murder     151
Debating the Holocaust     157
Intentionalists vs. functionalists     157
Jewish resistance     158
The Allies and the churches: Could the Jews have been saved?     159
Willing executioners?     160
Israel and the Jewish Holocaust      161
Is the Jewish Holocaust "uniquely unique"?     162
Suggestions for further study     163
Notes     165
Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge     185
Origins of the Khmer Rouge     185
War and revolution, 1970-75     188
A genocidal ideology     190
A policy of "urbicide", 1975     192
"Base people" vs. "new people"     194
Cambodia's holocaust, 1975-79     195
Genocide against Buddhists and ethnic minorities     199
Aftermath: Politics and the quest for justice     200
Suggestions for further study     202
Notes     202
Bosnia and Kosovo     212
Origins and onset     212
Gendercide and genocide in Bosnia     216
The international dimension     219
Kosovo, 1998-99     220
Aftermaths     222
Suggestions for further study     224
Notes     224
Holocaust in Rwanda     232
Introduction: Horror and shame     232
Background to genocide     233
Genocidal frenzy     238
Aftermath     245
Suggestions for further study     246
Notes      247
Social Science Perspectives     259
Psychological Perspectives     261
Narcissism, greed, and fear     262
Narcissism     262
Greed     264
Fear     265
Genocide and humiliation     268
The psychology of perpetrators     270
The Zimbardo experiments     274
The psychology of rescuers     275
Suggestions for further study     281
Notes     282
The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide     288
Introduction     288
Sociological perspectives     289
The sociology of modernity     289
Ethnicity and ethnic conflict     291
Ethnic conflict and violence "specialists"     293
"Middleman minorities"     294
Anthropological perspectives     296
Suggestions for further study     301
Notes     302
Political Science and International Relations     307
Empirical investigations     307
The changing face of war     311
Democracy, war, and genocide/democide     314
Norms and prohibition regimes     316
Suggestions for further study      320
Notes     321
Gendering Genocide     325
Gendercide vs. root-and-branch genocide     326
Women and genocide     329
Gendercidal institutions     330
Genocide and violence against homosexuals     331
Are men more genocidal than women?     332
A note on gendered propaganda     334
Suggestions for further study     336
Notes     337
The Future of Genocide     343
Memory, Forgetting, and Denial     345
The struggle over historical memory     345
Germany and "the search for a usable past"     349
The politics of forgetting     350
Genocide denial: Motives and strategies     351
Denial and free speech     354
Suggestions for further study     358
Notes     358
Justice, Truth, and Redress     362
Leipzig, Constantinople, Nuremberg, Tokyo     363
The international criminal tribunals: Yugoslavia and Rwanda     366
Jurisdictional issues     367
The concept of a victim group     367
Gender and genocide     367
National trials     368
The "mixed tribunals": Cambodia and Sierra Leone     370
Another kind of justice: Rwanda's gacaca experiment     370
The Pinochet case     371
The International Criminal Court (ICC)     373
International citizens' tribunals     375
Truth and reconciliation     377
The challenge of redress     379
Suggestions for further study     381
Notes     382
Strategies of Intervention and Prevention     388
Warning signs     389
Humanitarian intervention     392
Sanctions     393
The United Nations     394
When is military intervention justified?     395
A standing "peace army"?     396
Ideologies and individuals     398
The role of the honest witness     398
Ideologies, religious and secular     400
Conclusion     404
Suggestions for further study     404
Notes     405
Index     410

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Previous Editions

'With its interdisciplinary approach and bevy of case studies, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction will surely become the seminal text for students of genocide. Written in an engaging and conversational style, the book not only explores existing frameworks, but expands the boundaries of genocide studies with attention to issues such as gender and the future of genocide. Perhaps best of all, Jones educates and inspires the reader to become an active and responsible global citizen.' - Nicholas A. Robins, Duke University, USA

'This is the best introductory text available to students of genocide studies. Written in clear, elegant prose and supported by a wealth of authoritative sources, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is likely to become the gold standard by which all subsequent introductions to this enormously important subject will be measured.' - Kenneth J. Campbell, Professor of Political Science, University of Delaware, USA

'Compassionate, searching, up-to-the minute and sometimes even electrifying in its prose, this is the book I will be particularly recommending to my university students of genocide.' - Mark Levene, University of Southampton, UK

'Based on immense scholarship, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is much more than an indispensible text for students of this seemingly intractable phenomenon. With its global and interdisciplinary perspectives, it consistently advances our understanding of genocidal events on many fronts.' - A. Dirk Moses, University of Sydney, Australia and the European University Institute, Florence, Italy

'This wide-ranging inquest into the dynamics of genocidal violence stands as a major contribution to the dismal science of 'massacrology.' More than a collection of case studies, it offers a depth of critical insight and a richness of data seldom matched in comparative studies of genocide. Informed by a formidable erudition, and a deep personal sensitivity to the horrors that he describes, Adam Jones's splendid book is a milestone in the literature on mass crimes and genocide.' - Rene Lemarchand, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, USA

'The subtitle says it all: unique in the literature, this book provides a thorough, comprehensive introduction to the subject of genocide. Jones delivers a very readable, intellectually stimulating text. The overall perspective is interdisciplinary. Relevant research and insights from psychology, sociology, and anthropology are included; maps and illustrations complement many of the examples and case studies. …. Readers are encouraged as responsible citizens to consider their reactions to genocide. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels.' - P. G. Conway, SUNY College at Oneonta, writing in Choice — Reviews Online

‘This volume is the most detailed and comprehensive textbook in the field of genocide studies. Anyone who wants to learn about key cases and issues, past and present, needs to read it.’ - Alexander Hinton, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

Praise for the Previous Editions

'Adam Jones is among today's leading — and most prolific — scholars of genocide. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is truly comprehensive, ranging from antiquity to numerous episodes that straddle the porous borders between "genocide" and "mere" crimes against humanity. The book also ventures to offer strong passages on the psychology of perpetrators; genocide denial; international law, and artistic representations. It is perfectly suited for classroom purposes, while challenging scholars with its numerous striking insights regarding gender and other issues.' - John Cox, Centre for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies, University of North Carolina, USA

'With its interdisciplinary approach and bevy of case studies, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction will surely become the seminal text for students of genocide. Written in an engaging and conversational style, the book not only explores existing frameworks, but expands the boundaries of genocide studies with attention to issues such as gender and the future of genocide. Perhaps best of all, Jones educates and inspires the reader to become an active and responsible global citizen.' - Nicholas A. Robins, Duke University, USA

'This is the best introductory text available to students of genocide studies. Written in clear, elegant prose and supported by a wealth of authoritative sources, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is likely to become the gold standard by which all subsequent introductions to this enormously important subject will be measured.' - Kenneth J. Campbell, Professor of Political Science, University of Delaware, USA

'Compassionate, searching, up-to-the minute and sometimes even electrifying in its prose, this is the book I will be particularly recommending to my university students of genocide.' - Mark Levene, University of Southampton, UK

'Based on immense scholarship, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is much more than an indispensible text for students of this seemingly intractable phenomenon. With its global and interdisciplinary perspectives, it consistently advances our understanding of genocidal events on many fronts.' - A. Dirk Moses, University of Sydney, Australia and the European University Institute, Florence, Italy

'This wide-ranging inquest into the dynamics of genocidal violence stands as a major contribution to the dismal science of 'massacrology.' More than a collection of case studies, it offers a depth of critical insight and a richness of data seldom matched in comparative studies of genocide. Informed by a formidable erudition, and a deep personal sensitivity to the horrors that he describes, Adam Jones's splendid book is a milestone in the literature on mass crimes and genocide.' - Rene Lemarchand, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, USA

'The subtitle says it all: unique in the literature, this book provides a thorough, comprehensive introduction to the subject of genocide. Jones delivers a very readable, intellectually stimulating text. The overall perspective is interdisciplinary. Relevant research and insights from psychology, sociology, and anthropology are included; maps and illustrations complement many of the examples and case studies. …. Readers are encouraged as responsible citizens to consider their reactions to genocide. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels.' - P. G. Conway, SUNY College at Oneonta, writing in Choice — Reviews Online

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