Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century
This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant to acknowledge genocides. The author departs from traditional studies of the work of Raphael Lemkin or U.N. definitions of genocide so
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Marouf Hasian, Jr.
Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century
Marouf Hasian, Jr.
Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century
Marouf Hasian, Jr. University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Acknowledgments
I have spent years mulling over many of the ideas that appear in this book, and I want to begin by thanking my father, Marouf Hasian, Sr., who passed away before he had a chance to read some of my work on the Nakba. For many years I was allowed to travel with him on his road trips, and I heard countless coffee shop discussions among Palestinians of all ages who were living in the diaspora. They worked in places like Charlotte or St. Louis or Kenosha or Detroit or New York but they yearned for a time when they could return to an independent Palestinian state. My father and I used to joke about how this same exact military post that was in his village was once occupied at different historical points in time by Ottoman, British, Jordanian, and Israeli forces. Little did I know that as I listened to stories like this those memories would help me understand what scholars meant when they wrote about how Al-Nakba involved ongoing structural processes and not simply a single event. I would also like to thank the undergraduate students at the University of Utah who have taken my classes on the documentation of genocides. Over the last decade, whenever I go
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