Cultural Genocide

Jeffrey Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC. He is the author of The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the Relationship. He is currently working on a new book, The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect, contracted by Rutgers University Press for its Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights series.

Introduction: Bringing Cultural Genocide into the Mainstream Part I: Cultural Genocide in International Law 1. Raphaël Lemkin: Culture and Cultural Genocide 2. An Historical Perspective: The Exclusion of Cultural Genocide from the Genocide Convention 3. A Modern Perspective: The Current Status of Cultural Genocide Under International Law Part II: Global Manifestations of Cultural Genocide Section One: Settler Colonialism, Forced Assimilation, and Indigenous Genocide 4. Destroying Indigenous Cultures in the United States 5. Genocide and Settler Colonialism: How a Lemkinian Concept of Genocide Informs Our Understanding of the Ongoing Situation of the Guar ani Kaiowá in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil 6. A Political Economy of Genocide in Australia: The Architecture of Dispossession Then and Now 7. Colonialism and Cold Genocide: The Case of West Papua Section Two: Cultural Destruction 8. Heritage Wars: A Cultural Genocide in Iraq 9. A Century of Cultural Genocide in Palestine 10. The Baha’i Community of Iran: Cultural Genocide and Resilience Section Three: Justice and Restitution 11. Ontological Redress: The Natural and the Material in Transformative Justice for ‘Cultural’ Genocide