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Geography of genocide

Title
Geography of genocide / Allan D. Cooper.
Author
Cooper, Allan D.
Publication
Lanham : University Press of America, [2009], ©2009.

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Description
viii, 255 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"The Geography of Genocide offers a unique analysis of over sixty genocides in world history, explaining why genocides only occur in territorial interiors and never originate from cosmopolitan urban centers. This study explores why genocides tend to result from emasculating political defeats experienced by perpetrator groups and examines whether such extreme political violence is the product of a masculine identity crisis. Author Allan D. Cooper notes that genocides are most often organized and implemented by individuals who have experienced traumatic childhood events involving the abandonment or abuse by their father. Although genocides target religious groups, nations, races or ethnic groups, these identity structures are rarely at the heart of the war crimes that ensue. Cooper integrates research derived from the study of serial killing and rape to show certain commonalities with the phenomenon of genocide. The Geography of Genocide presents various strategies for responding to genocide and introduces Cooper's groundbreaking alternatives for ultimately inhibiting the occurrence of genocide."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-252) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Defining Genocide -- Ch. 2. Constructing Difference -- Ch. 3. The Emasculating Moment -- Ch. 4. Spatiality and the Xenophobic Imagination -- Ch. 5. Responding to Genocide -- Ch. 6. The End of Masculinity -- App. 1. Case Studies -- App. 2. The Emasculating Moment of Historic Genocides.
ISBN
  • 9780761840978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0761840974 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780761842224 (eISBN)
  • 0761842225 (eISBN)
LCCN
40016114469
OCLC
  • ocn243545939
  • 243545939
  • SCSB-5446871
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries