Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide
Title | Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Authors | Moses, A. Dirk |
Editor | Bloxham, Donald, and A. Dirk Moses |
Book Title | The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies |
Pagination | 19–41 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
City | Oxford |
Abstract | This chapter describes the concept of genocide devised by Raphael Lemkin. Genocide is a curious anomaly in the post-war regime of international humanitarian law, which is dominated by the discourse of human rights with its emphasis on individuals. It embodies the social ontology of ‘groupism’, because genocide is about the destruction of groups per se, not individuals per se. Lemkin thought that the Nazi policies were radically new, but only in the context of modern civilization. Wars of extermination have marked human society from antiquity until the religious conflagrations of early modern Europe, after which the doctrine that dominated was that war should be conducted against states rather than populations. |
URL | https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232116.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199232116-e-2 |
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