The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression,A. Dirk Moses

-About this book

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.

-CONTENTS

Preface  
Introduction: The Problems of Genocide  
part 1 :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  
part2: 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  
part3 :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  
Index  

-caractéristiques

Date de parution :4 février 2021

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages : 610 pages

ISBN-10 : 1107103584

ISBN-13 : 978-1107103580

Poids de l’article : 982 g

Dimensions : 15.24 x 3.81 x 22.86 cm