Laurelyn Whitt (Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada), Alan W. Clarke (Utah Valley University)

North American Genocides

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The eliminatory dynamics of settler colonialism in North America included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples. This book offers a legal methodology that establishes this, as well as a critique that enhances our understanding of genocide in significant ways, especially with respect to the cultural dimensions of genocide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781108442428
• ISBN-10: 1108442420
• Artikelnr.: 64109525

Autorenporträt

Laurelyn Whitt is Professor of Native Studies at Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada. The author of Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge, 2009), and co-author with Alan W. Clarke of The Bitter Fruit of American Justice: International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty (2007), she has published widely in issues at the intersection of Indigenous Studies, Science Studies and Legal Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. North American genocide denial
2. The legal case for historical genocides: a retrospective methodology
3. Settler colonialism and Indigenous nations
4. A legal primer for settler colonial genocides
5. The Beothuk (1500-1830)
6. The Powhatan Tsenacommacah (1607-1677)
7. The conventional account of genocide: from a restrictive to an expansive interpretation
8. Toward an account of systemic genocide
Appendix A. Secretariat's draft convention
Appendix B. Ad hoc Committee Draft Convention
Appendix C. United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide
Index.