Ethnic Cleansing

A Social and Legal Examination
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-80063-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 292 g

Putting forward the argument that the strength of democracies can be measured in how well minorities – especially ethnic and racial minorities – are treated by the majority, Larry May’s Ethnic Cleansing maintains that unjust ethnic cleansing is one of the greatest internal challenges to the modern institutions of pluralistic and multicultural states.

In order to determine what constitutes the crime of ethnic cleansing, this book details crucial conceptual issues around the topic, such as what ethnicity means, what ethnic cleansing claims to achieve, why these acts are invariably harmful, and the conditions of restitution, reparation, and reconciliation – affirming that ethnic cleansing must be countered by existing institutions such as the International Criminal Court, which is uniquely situated to prosecute ethnic cleansing.

The first major study to analyze ethnic cleansing from an explicitly normative and conceptual perspective in the last decade, the increase in number and complexity of cases of ethnic cleansing makes this a timely book to understand the challenges that confront contemporary society.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

May, Larry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Setting the Problem
2. A Proposed “Consensus” Definition
3. Ancient “Ethnic” Atrocities
4. The Trail of Tears
5. Darfur
6. Bosnia: The “Paradigm Case”?
7. The West Bank and Gaza Today
8. The Meaning of the Term “Ethnic”
9. The Meaning of the Term “Cleansing”
10. Identity and Ethnicity
11. Minority Rights
12. Destroying Versus Cleansing
13. Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity
14. The “Divorce” Metaphor
15. The Role of International Criminal Law
16. Prosecuting Perpetrators of Ethnic Cleansing
17. Defenses for Ethnic Cleansing
18. Voluntary Population Transfers
19. Forced Transfers and the “Eminent Domain” Metaphor
20. Justice After Ethnic Cleansing
21. Is Ethnic Cleansing Ever Necessary?
22. The Misuse of the Idea of Purity
23. Conclusions

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Larry May is an internationally renowned social/political philosopher and legal theorist who has published more than three dozen books. He is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at Vanderbilt University and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published a four-volume study of the moral foundations of international criminal law and a three-volume history of legal and political thought. He is the co-author of Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach (Routledge, 2016) and author of Trafficking and the Conscience of Humanity (Routledge, 2024).