Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : bringing cultural genocide into the mainstream / Jeffrey Bachman -- Raphaël Lemkin : culture and cultural genocide / Douglas Irvin-Erickson -- An historical perspective : the exclusion of cultural genocide from the Genocide Convention / Jeffrey Bachman -- A modern perspective : the current status of cultural genocide under international law / David Nersessian -- Destroying indigenous cultures in the United States / Lauren Carasik and Jeffrey Bachman -- Genocide and settler colonialism : how a Lemkinian concept of genocide informs our understanding of the ongoing situation of the Guarani Kaiowá in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil / Genna Naccache -- A political economy of genocide in Australia : the architecture of dispossession then and now / Damien Short and Martin Crook -- Colonialism and cold genocide : the case of West Papua / Kjell Anderson -- Heritage wars : a cultural genocide in Iraq / Helen Malko -- A century of cultural genocide in Palestine / Daud Abdullah -- The Baha'i community of Iran : cultural genocide and resilience / Moojan Momen -- Ontological redress : the natural and the material in transformative justice for "cultural" genocide / Andrew Woolford.

This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences. Through a systematic approach and comprehensive analysis, international and interdisciplinary contributors from the fields of genocide studies, legal studies, criminology, sociology, archaeology, human rights, colonial studies, and anthropology examine the legal, structural, and political issues associated with cultural genocide. This includes a series of geographically representative case studies from the USA, Brazil, Australia, West Papua, Iraq, Palestine, Iran, and Canada. This volume is unique in its interdisciplinarity, regional coverage, and the various methods of cultural genocide represented, and will be of interest to scholars of genocide studies, cultural studies and human rights, international law, international relations, indigenous studies, anthropology, and history.

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