Maureen S Hiebert

Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence

Society, Crisis, Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work seeks to address two closely related questions, what is the process by which the relatively short and violent genocides of the twentieth century and beyond have occurred and why have these instances of mass violence been genocidal and not some other form of state violence, repression, or conflict? Hiebert seeks to answer these questions by exploring the structures and processes that underpin the decision by political elites to commit genocide, focusing on a sustained comparison of two cases, the Nazi ' Final Solution' and the Cambodian genocide. The work seeks to clearly differentiate the structures and processes, contained within a larger overall process, that leads to genocidal violence. Hiebert uncovers the mechanisms by which societies, at least in the contemporary era, come to experience genocide as a distinct form of destruction and not some other form of mass or political violence, allowing the author to seek to highlight a set of key process that leads to specifically genocidal violence. Providing an insightful contribution to the burgeoning literature in the area, this work will be of interest to students and scholars of genocide, international relations and political violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780415745048
• ISBN-10: 0415745047
• Artikelnr.: 40477134

Autorenporträt

Maureen S. Hiebert is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The genocidal process: a constructivist approach
Introduction
Part I: Theorizing the "permissive" socio-political environment of genocide
Introduction
I. The 'permissive' socio-political environment: a theoretical overview
II. Three dimensions of the permissive socio-political environment of
genocide
Chapter 2: Germany
I. Exclusionary and unequal patterns of group interaction
II. Exclusionary conceptions of the community
III. Authoritarian modes of conflict management
Chapter 3: Cambodia
I. Exclusionary and unequal patterns of group interaction
II. Exclusionary conceptions of the community
III. Authoritarian modes of conflict management
Conclusion to Part I
Part II: Introduction crises and interpretation: the catalyst for killing
Introduction
Chapter 4: Inter-war Germany: crises and interpretation
I. Security crises
II. Economic crises
III. Political crises
Chapter 5: Cambodia: the Sihanoukist and Lon Nol years: crises and
interpretation
I. Economic crises
II. Political crises
III. Military and security crises
Conclusion to Part II
Part III: Reconceptualizing the victim group: the "three switches" of
genocide
Introduction
I. Genocide as a strategic or rational choice?
II. Constructing victims: a constructivist explanation
III. The "three switches"
III. Warrants for genocide
Chapter 6: Nazi final solution
I. Switch one: victims as foreigners
II. Switch two: victims as mortal threats
III. Switch three: victims as sub-humans
Chapter 7: The Khmer Rouge killing fields
I. Switch one: victims as foreigners
II. Switch two: victims as mortal threat
III. Switch three:victims as sub-humans
Chapter 8: Vietnam: abuses without genocide
I. Switch one: victims as wayward opponents
II. Switch two: the threat of actors with real power
Conclusion to Part III