9 The Limits of a Genocide Lens and Possible Alternatives

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Genocide and Mass Categorical Violence 3
5. Somebody Else’s Crime: The Drafting of the Genocide Convention as a Cold War Battle, 1946–48 22
6. The Costs of Silencing Holocaust Victims: Why We Must Add Sexual Violence to Our Definition of Genocide 44
7. Frames and Narratives: How the Fates of the Ottoman Armenians, Stalin-Era Ukrainians, and Kazakhs Illuminate the Concept of Genocide 87
8. The Holodomor in the Context of Soviet Mass Killing in the 1930s 107
9. The Kazakh Famine, the Holodomor, and the Soviet Famines of 1930–33: Starvation and National Un-building in the Soviet Union 126
10. The “Lemkin Turn” in Ukrainian Studies: Genocide, Peoples, Nations, and Empire 145
11. The Orchestrated Inapplicability of the Law of Crimes against Humanity and Genocide – une exception française? 174
12. Is It Time to Forget Genocide? Conceptual Problems and New Directions 200
13. The Limits of a Genocide Lens and Possible Alternatives 222
14. Contributors 257
15. Index 261