JS 211gw Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Turkish Nationalism
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Lecture 1 notes cont"d: genocide is not unique to one grp, types of genocides, can be used: to settle differences, to promote one ethnic grp to dominate other grps. Take place in colonization, to colonize the population. Ideological: committed in the aim of promoting a particular idea, ex: nazi"s genocide of jews (a racial ideology); turkish on. Syria (destroying the ppl who are gonna: developmental threaten the reign, aim of eliminating an indigenous population. The indigenous population always stands outside of the colonizer"s structure. Tibet: to consolidate the power of the reign, to make clear to others that, conditions of genocide we are/will be in power, victims are collectively defined/labeled. Isolated from other grps, systematic and deliberate process. Victim grp always are minorities within a society, may be tolerated for a moment, but never equal: state necessary to carry out genocide.
