Genocide as social practice reorganizing society under the Nazis and Argentina's military juntas
Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political o...
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| Format: | eBook |
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New Brunswick
Rutgers University Press
2014
New Brunswick, New Jersey : 2014. |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426074706719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Two Genocides
- PART ONE. Some Theoretical Questions
- 1. Defining the Concept of Genocide
- 2. Toward a Typology of Genocidal Social Practices
- 3. Reconciling the Contradictions of Modernity: Equality, Sovereignty, Autonomy, and Genocidal Social Practices
- PART TWO. Historical Foundations: The Nazi Genocide
- 4. Discourse and Politics in Holocaust Studies: Uniqueness, Comparability, and Narration
- 5. The Problem of Explaining the Causes of the Nazi Genocides
- 6. Reshaping Social Relations through Genocide
- PART THREE. Toward a Historical Basis: Genocidal Social Practices in Argentina
- 7. Explaining Genocidal Social Practices in Argentina: The Problem of Causation
- 8. Toward a Periodization of Genocide in Argentina
- 9. Concentration Camp Logic
- 10. In Conclusion: The Uses of Memory
- Notes
- Index
- About the author
