Barbaric civilization : a critical sociology of genocide / Christopher Powell.
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TextPublication details: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 356 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780773585560
- 0773585567
- Genocide
- Civilization, Western
- Critical theory
- Génocide
- Civilisation occidentale
- Théorie critique
- critical theories (dialectical critiques)
- critical theory (sociological concept)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General
- Civilization, Western
- Critical theory
- Genocide
- Völkermord
- Soziologie
- Kritische Theorie
- 304.6/63 23
- HV6322.7 .P69 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A critical sociology of genocide -- Identifying genocide -- Closing the theory gap in the sociology of genocide -- Civilizing genocides and barbaric civilization -- Genocides of ideological others in Languedoc and Guatemala -- Genocides of colonized others in Tasmania and India -- Genocides of national others in the Ottoman empire and Rwanda.
A provocative analysis of how genocides result from the expansion of Western civilization.
English.
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