
Destroy Them Gradually
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"In this brilliant intervention, Andrew Basso demonstrates that displacement constitutes its own understudied method of mass violence. Basso reveals the role of displacement in historical atrocities and, as we nosedive into intense climate change, how it is rapidly becoming perhaps the most prevalent form of mass destruction. Anyone concerned with the future of mass violence should read this timely contribution." - Benjamin Meiches (Benjamin Meiches, associate professor of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University o) "Destroy Them Gradually focuses our attention on spatial techniques of displacement and their prominent role in group destruction. Basso offers a compelling argument for taking displacement seriously as a crime and demonstrates the new and profound insights one gains when giving fuller attention to questions of when, where, and why this method of atrocity is deployed." - Andrew Woolford (author of This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada a)More details
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rights, and political violence in local and global contexts. He is the coauthor of From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home (Rutgers University Press, 2022).
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Part I: Displacement Atrocity Crimes
Chapter 1 Extirpation: Understanding Annihilatory Forced Displacement
Chapter 2 Exposure: A Theory of Displacement Atrocity Crimes
Part II: German South-West Africa
Chapter 3 Trepidation: Colonized Namibia and Violent Horizons (1652-1904)
Chapter 4 Extermination: Germany's Genocide of the Herero (1904-1908)
Chapter 5 Inescapability: The Nama Genocide (1905-1908)
Part III: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Chapter 6 Collapse: The Nadir of the Ottoman Empire (1839-1915)
Chapter 7 Excision: The Ottoman Genocide of Christian Minorities (1914-1925)
Chapter 8 Neurosis: The Hamidian Massacres (1894-1897)
Part IV: Central and East Europe
Chapter 9 Metamorphosis: A World Made New (9th Century-1945)
Chapter 10 Catharsis: The Expulsion of the Germans (1944-1950)
Chapter 11 Desolation: The Holocaust (1933-1945)
Part V: Climate Violence and Conclusions
Chapter 12 Tragedy: Logics of Displacement in the 21st Century
Chapter 13 Farce: To Destroy Them Gradually?
Chapter 14 Praxis: Seeking Justice and Disrupting Pathways
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
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