Cultural genocide : : law, politics, and global manifestations / / edited by Jeffrey S. Bachman.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in genocide and crimes against humanity
• TeilnehmendeR: Bachman, Jeffrey S.,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York, New York : : Taylor & Francis,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in genocide and crimes against humanity.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages).

This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bringing Cultural Genocide into the Mainstream -- Part I: Cultural Genocide in International Law -- 1. Raphael Lemkin: Culture and Cultural Genocide -- 2. An Historical Perspective: The Exclusion of Cultural Genocide from the Genocide Convention -- 3. A Modern Perspective: The Current Status of Cultural Genocide Under International Law -- Part II: Global Manifestations of Cultural Genocide -- Section One: Settler Colonialism, Forced Assimilation, and Indigenous Genocide -- 4. Destroying Indigenous Cultures in the United States -- 5. Genocide and Settler Colonialism: How a Lemkinian Concept of Genocide Informs Our Understanding of the Ongoing Situation of the Guar ani Kaiowa in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil -- 6. A Political Economy of Genocide in Australia: The Architecture of Dispossession Then and Now -- 7. Colonialism and Cold Genocide: The Case of West Papua -- Section Two: Cultural Destruction -- 8. Heritage Wars: A Cultural Genocide in Iraq -- 9. A Century of Cultural Genocide in Palestine -- 10. The Baha'i Community of Iran: Cultural Genocide and Resilience Section Three: Justice and Restitution -- 11. Ontological Redress: The Natural and the Material in Transformative Justice for 'Cultural' Genocide.