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A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Paperback)
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A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
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This book critiques the dominant physical and biological
interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea
of "culture" is central to properly understanding the crime of
genocide. Using Raphael Lemkin's personal papers, archival
materials from the State Department and the UN, as well as the
mid-century secondary literature, it situates the convention in the
longstanding debate between Enlightenment notions of universality
and individualism, and Romantic notions of particularism and
holism. The author conducts a thorough review of the treaty and its
preparatory work to show that the drafters brought strong
culturalist ideas to the debate and that Lemkin's ideas were held
widely in the immediate postwar period. Reconstructing the
mid-century conversation on genocide and situating it in the much
broader mid-century discourse on justice and society he
demonstrates that culture is not a distraction to be read out of
the Genocide Convention; it is the very reason it exists. This
volume poses a forceful challenge to the materialist interpretation
and calls into question decades of international case law. It will
be of interest to scholars of genocide, human rights, international
law, the history of international law and human rights, and treaty
interpretation.
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