3 Lemkin’s Unwanted Shortcomings and Some Theoretical Considerations about the Definition of “Genocide”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1 Genocide and Violence: An Introduction 1
4. Section I: Concepts
5. 2 Genocide as a Category Mistake: Permanent Security and Mass Violence Against Civilians 15
6. 3 Lemkin’s Unwanted Shortcomings and Some Theoretical Considerations about the Definition of “Genocide” 39
7. 4 Rethinking the Concept of Cultural Genocide under International Law 61
8. 5 Gender and Genocide 83
9. Section II: Forms
10. 6 “Now We Are Natives”: The Genocide of the Beothuk People and the Politics of “Extinction” in Newfoundland 115
11. 7 Volksgemeinschaft to Schicksalsgemeinschaft: Nazi Violence as a Socially Integrative Force 137
12. 8 Technocrats and their Tools of Genocide: The Scientific-Police Complex and the Genocide of Sinti and Roma under the Nazi Regime, 1938–1943 163
13. 9 The Genocidal Violence of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army 191
14. 10 Extreme Violence and Desecration in the Armenian Genocide 213
15. Section III: Impact
16. 11 “We Are a Part of the Land and the Land Is Us”: Settler Colonialism, Genocide, and Healing in California 237
17. 12 Private Remembrance and Public Commemoration of the Nazi Euthanasia Program in German Society 265
18. 13 Times of the Living in Spaces of the Dead: Genocidal Violence and Its Effect Upon Spatiotemporal Perception in Eddie Weinstein’s Treblinka Testimony Quenched Steel 287
19. Contributors 311
20. Index 315