Genocides by the Oppressed

by Robins, Nicholas A.; Jones, Adam

• ISBN13: 9780253353092
• ISBN10: 0253353092
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-21
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

In the last two decades, the field of comparative genocide studies has produced an increasingly rich literature on the targeting of various groups for extermination and other atrocities, throughout history and around the contemporary world. However, the phenomenon of "genocides by the oppressed," that is, retributive genocidal actions carried out by subaltern actors, has received almost no attention. The prominence in such genocides of non-state actors, combined with the perceived moral ambiguities of retributive genocide that arise in analyzing genocidal acts "from below," have so far eluded serious investigation. Genocides by the Oppressed addresses this oversight, opening the subject of subaltern genocide for exploration by scholars of genocide, ethnic conflict, and human rights. Focusing on case studies of such genocide, the contributors explore its sociological, anthropological, psychological, symbolic, and normative dimensions.

Author Biography

Nicholas A. Robins is a lecturer in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He is author of Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas (IU Press, 2005); Genocide and Millennialism in Upper Peru; and The Culture of Conflict in Modern Cuba.

Adam Jones is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, BC. He is author or editor of a dozen books, including Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Symbolism and Subalternity: The 1680 Pueblo Revolt of New Mexico and the 1780-82 Andean Great Rebellion

On the Genocidal Aspect of Certain Subaltern Uprisings: A Research Note

Ethical Cleansing? The Expulsion of Germans from Central Europe during and after World War Two

Oppression and Vengeance in the Cambodian Genocide

Genocide in Self-Defense? Serbian Victimization and Historical Justifications for War, 1980-2000

The Imaginary in Rwanda's Pre-Genocidal Media

Genocide, Humiliation, and Inferiority: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Subaltern Genocide and Evolutionary Theory

Subaltern Strands of the Genocidal Continuum

Index

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