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 polit...

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Autore principale: Feierstein, Daniel, 1967- (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
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Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
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Sommario:
  • Defining the concept of genocide
  • Toward a typology of genocidal social practices
  • Reconciling the contradictions of modernity : equality, sovereignty, autonomy, and genocidal social practices
  • Discourse and politics in Holocaust studies : uniqueness, comparability, and narration
  • The problem of explaining the causes of the Nazi genocides
  • Reshaping social relations through genocide
  • Explaining genocidal social practices in Argentina : the problem of causation
  • Toward a periodization of genocide in Argentina
  • Concentration camp logic
  • In conclusion : the uses of memory.