Genocide

Name: Genocide
Brand: Taylor & Francis
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A Comprehensive Introduction

By Adam Jones

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Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction offers an extensive exploration of genocide as both a historical event and a legal-analytical concept. Covering a broad range of disciplines, it examines state-building, war, imperialism, and social revolution as catalysts for genocide. The book includes detailed case studies worldwide, perspectives from social sciences, and addresses the future of genocide with discussions on memory, denial, justice, and prevention. This fourth edition features new case studies on the Uyghur genocide, Rohingya Muslims, and Muslims in India, along with survivor testimonies and archaeological insights.
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This comprehensive textbook is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students studying genocide across various disciplines, as well as non-specialist and general readers seeking a thorough understanding of the subject.

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.

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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032028095

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 December 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 4th edition

Illustration: 182 Halftones, black and white; 182 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 2060g

Pages: 766

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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.