Cultural Genocide

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. Through a systematic approach and comprehensive analysis, international and interdisciplinary contributors from the fields of genocide studies, legal studies, criminology, sociology, archaeology, human rights, colonial studies, and anthropology examine the legal, structural, and political issues associated with cultural genocide. This includes a series of geographically representative case studies from the USA, Brazil, Australia, West Papua, Iraq, Palestine, Iran, and Canada.

This volume is unique in its interdisciplinarity, regional coverage, and the various methods of cultural genocide represented, and will be of interest to scholars of genocide studies, cultural studies and human rights, international law, international relations, indigenous studies, anthropology, and history.

Autorentext

Jeffrey Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. He is the author of The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the Relationship. *He is currently working on a new book, *The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect, contracted by Rutgers University Press for its Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights series.

Inhalt

Introduction: Bringing Cultural Genocide into the Mainstream * Jeffrey Bachman

• Part I: Cultural Genocide in International Law *

• 1. Raphaël Lemkin: Culture and Cultural Genocide * Douglas Irvin-Erickson

2. An Historical Perspective: The Exclusion of Cultural Genocide from the Genocide Convention * Jeffrey Bachman *

3. A Modern Perspective: The Current Status of Cultural Genocide Under International Law * David Nersessian

   • Part II: Global Manifestations of Cultural Genocide

* Section One: Settler Colonialism, Forced Assimilation, and Indigenous Genocide

• 4. Destroying Indigenous Cultures in the United States * Lauren Carasik and Jeffrey Bachman

5. Genocide and Settler Colonialism: How a Lemkinian Concept of Genocide Informs Our Understanding of the Ongoing Situation of the Guar ani Kaiowá in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil * Genna Naccache *

6. A Political Economy of Genocide in Australia: The Architecture of Dispossession Then and Now

Martin Crook and Damien Short

7. Colonialism and Cold Genocide: The Case of West Papua * Kjell Anderson *

* Section Two: Cultural Destruction

• 8. Heritage Wars: A Cultural Genocide in Iraq * Helen Malko

9. A Century of Cultural Genocide in Palestine * Daud Abdullah *

10. The Baha'i Community of Iran: Cultural Genocide and Resilience * Moojan Momen *

* Section Three: Justice and Restitution

• 11. Ontological Redress: The Natural and the Material in Transformative Justice for 'Cultural' Genocide * Andrew Woolford*