Destroy Them Gradually: Displacement as Atrocity (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights) - Hardcover

Basso, Andrew R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1978831285 ISBN 13: 9781978831285

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of forced labor and attrition, to ethnically homogenize regions by moving victims out of their homes and lands, and to destroy populations by depriving them of vital daily needs. Displacement has been treated as a corollary practice to crimes committed, not a central aspect of their perpetration. Destroying Them Gradually examines four cases that illuminate why perpetrators have destroyed populations using displacement policies: Germany’s genocide of the Herero (1904–1908); Ottoman genocides of Christian minorities (1914–1925); expulsions of Germans from East/Central Europe (1943–1952); and climate violence (twenty-first century). Because displacement has been typically framed as a secondary aspect of mass atrocities, existing scholarship overlooks how perpetrators use it as a means of executing destruction rather than a vehicle for moving people to a specific location to commit atrocities.

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About the Author

ANDREW R. BASSO is an adjunct faculty member with the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy and Wilfrid Laurier University. He researches transitional justice, human
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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978831285
• ISBN 13: 9781978831285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 342