Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction - Couverture souple

Jones, Adam

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ISBN 10 : 1138823848 ISBN 13 : 9781138823846

Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

GENOCIDE : A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION, 3RD EDITION by Adam Jones , 9781138823846

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity’s enduring blights.

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:

• Box-texts on "Physical, Biological, and Cultural Genocide" and "Whatever Happened to Political Groups?" (Chapter 1)
• Nigeria/Biafra as a "contested case" of genocide (Chapter 1)
• Genocide, empire, and modernity in Europe: the "Bloodlands" and "Rimlands" literature (Chapter 2)
• Extensive new material on the Kurds, Islamic State/ISIS, and the civil wars/genocide in Iraq and Syria (Chapter 4)
• "Stalin: Return from the Crypt" ― Stalinist dictatorship in Russian popular memory, including a visit to the despot’s hometown (Chapter 5)
• Indonesia in 1965―66 as a case of genocide (Chapter 7)
• A reworked and expanded Chapter 9, "Genocide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region," with extensive new material on DR Congo and Burundi
• Conflict and atrocities in the world’s newest state, South Sudan (Chapter 9)
• Canada’s indigenous people and the Truth and Reconciliation process (Chapter 15)
• Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz and the tribunal’s legacy, including an encounter with Ferencz in the very courtroom where Nazi mass killers were tried (Chapter 15)
• The role, activities, and constraints of the United Nations Office of Genocide Prevention (Chapter 16)
• "Is Humanity Becoming Less Genocidal?" ― the implications for genocide studies of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature (Chapter 16)
• Many new testimonies from genocide victims, survivors, witnesses ― and perpetrators
• Dozens of new images, including a special photographic essay, as well as maps, memorials, engravings, and artworks ― the richest collection of genocide-related imagery in a single book.

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction remains the indispensable text for new generations of genocide study and scholarship. An accompanying website (www.genocidetext.net) features a broad selection of supplementary materials, teaching aids, and Internet resources.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Adam Jones, Ph.D., 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. Jones was selected as one of Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide for the book of that title, edited by Paul Bartrop and Steven Jacobs (Routledge, 2010). He has published various sole-authored and edited works on genocide and related themes, including The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections (2013), New Directions in Genocide Research (2012), and Gender Inclusive: Essays on Violence, Men, and Feminist International Relations (2008), all with Routledge; Gendercide and Genocide (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004); and Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity (Zed Books, 2004). He has also published books about mass media and political transition, based on his doctoral fieldwork in Russia, Nicaragua, South Africa, and Jordan. Jones has lived and/or travelled in over 100 countries on every populated continent. His "Global Photo Archive" of more than 15,000 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 http://www.flickr.com/adam_jones/sets/). In recent years, Jones has served as review editor of the Journal of Genocide Research, and as an expert consultant for the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, based in New York City.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138823848
• ISBN 13: 9781138823846
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 870