Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations

This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences.
Through a systematic approach and comprehensive analysis, international and interdisciplinary contributors from the fields of genocide studies, legal studies, criminology, sociology, archaeology, human rights, colonial studies, and anthropology examine the legal, structural, and political issues associated with cultural genocide. This includes a series of geographically representative case studies from the USA, Brazil, Australia, West Papua, Iraq, Palestine, Iran, and Canada.

This volume is unique in its interdisciplinarity, regional coverage, and the various methods of cultural genocide represented, and will be of interest to scholars of genocide studies, cultural studies and human rights, international law, international relations, indigenous studies, anthropology, and history.

Momen, Moojan (2019). The Baha'i community of Iran: Cultural genocide and resilience. Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations. Jeffrey S. Bachman. Abingdon
New York, Routledge: 246-266

Introduction: Bringing Cultural Genocide into the Mainstream

Jeffrey Bachman

Part I: Cultural Genocide in International Law

1. Raphaël Lemkin: Culture and Cultural Genocide
Douglas Irvin-Erickson

2. An Historical Perspective: The Exclusion of Cultural Genocide from the Genocide Convention
Jeffrey Bachman

3. A Modern Perspective: The Current Status of Cultural Genocide Under International Law
David Nersessian

Part II: Global Manifestations of Cultural Genocide

Section One: Settler Colonialism, Forced Assimilation, and Indigenous Genocide

4. Destroying Indigenous Cultures in the United States
Lauren Carasik and Jeffrey Bachman

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
Genna Naccache

6. A Political Economy of Genocide in Australia: The Architecture of Dispossession Then and Now
Martin Crook and Damien Short

7. Colonialism and Cold Genocide: The Case of West Papua
Kjell Anderson

Section Two: Cultural Destruction
8. Heritage Wars: A Cultural Genocide in Iraq

Helen Malko
9. A Century of Cultural Genocide in Palestine
Daud Abdullah

10. The Baha’i Community of Iran: Cultural Genocide and Resilience
Moojan Momen

Section Three: Justice and Restitution
11. Ontological Redress: The Natural and the Material in Transformative Justice for ‘Cultural’ Genocide
Andrew Woolford