Barbaric civilization
Subtitle: a critical sociology of genocide
By: Christopher Powell
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780773538559; 9780773538566
Subjects: Génocide; Civilisation occidentale; Genocide; Western Civilization; Théorie critique; Critical theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: A critical sociology of genocide; title: Identifying genocide; title: Closing the theory gap in the sociology of genocide; title: Civilizing genocides and barbaric civilization; title: Genocides of ideological others in Languedoc and Guatemala; title: Genocides of colonized others in Tasmania and India; title: Genocides of national others in the Ottoman empire and Rwanda.