- Title
- Introduction: massacre in the old and new worlds, c.1780-1820
- Creator
- Dwyer, Philip G.; Ryan, Lyndall
- Relation
- Journal of Genocide Research Vol. 15, Issue 2, p. 111-115
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2013.789179
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The scholarship surrounding massacre as a phenomenon in history often falls into the shadow of genocide, or the word ‘genocide’ is often used to denote mass killings that would better be described as massacre. Recent attempts to explain massacre by genocide scholars see them using the term ‘genocidal massacre’ to denote ‘partial genocide’. The scholars in this special issue want to make a point and have chosen to do so in a journal dedicated to genocide studies: a growing body of literature on the dynamics as well as the mechanics of massacre makes it clear that a distinction has to be drawn between genocidal killing on the one hand, where the intent is to exterminate ‘in whole or in part’ an entire people and their culture, and massacres on the other, a phenomenon involving the selective killing of unarmed people over limited periods of time during periods of bitter conflict. As the editors of this special issue have asserted elsewhere, genocide and massacre are two distinct phenomena, even if genocide cannot occur without the perpetration of mass killings and massacres, but massacres can occur without genocidal intent. The overall impact, however, can lead to the extermination of a people. In one of the few attempts to look at massacre from an indigenous perspective, Barbara Mann calls this phenomenon in North America ‘fractal massacre’, part of a larger pattern of killing that, taken as a whole, can lead to genocide.
- Subject
- genocide; massacre; violence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1302231
- Identifier
- uon:20436
- Identifier
- ISSN:1462-3528
- Language
- eng
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