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Author Powell, Christopher John, 1971-

Title Barbaric civilization : a critical sociology of genocide / Christopher Powell
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 356 pages)
Contents A critical sociology of genocide -- Identifying genocide -- Closing the theory gap in the sociology of genocide -- Civilizing genocides and barbaric civilization -- Genocides of ideological others in Languedoc and Guatemala -- Genocides of colonized others in Tasmania and India -- Genocides of national others in the Ottoman empire and Rwanda
Summary A provocative analysis of how genocides result from the expansion of Western civilization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Genocide.
Civilization, Western.
Critical theory.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Civilization, Western
Critical theory
Genocide
Völkermord
Soziologie
Kritische Theorie
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773585560
0773585567