Overview

In an era of globalization and identity politics, this book explores how Holocaust imagery and vocabulary have been appropriated and applied to other genocides. The author examines how the Holocaust has impacted on other ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust as a symbol is a useful or destructive means of reading non-Jewish history. This volume: explains the rise of the Holocaust as a gradual process, charting how its importance as a symbol has evolved, providing a theoretical framework to understand how and why non-Jewish groups choose to invoke ‘holocausts’ to apply to other events explores the Holocaust in relation to colonialism and indigenous genocide, with case studies on America, Australia and New Zealand analyzes the Holocaust in relation to war and genocide, with case studies on the Armenian genocide, the Rape of Nanking, Serbia and the Rwandan genocide examines how the Holocaust has been used to promote animal rights. Demonstrating both the opportunities and pitfalls the Holocaust provides to non-Jewish groups who seek to represent their collective histories, this book fills a much needed gap on the use of the Holocaust in contemporary identity politics and will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, the Holocaust and genocide.

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Author:   David B. MacDonald (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   v. 64
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780415430616

ISBN 10:   0415430615
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   04 October 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Holocaust and Identity Politics 1. Cosmopolitanizing the Holocaust: From the Eichmann Trial to Identity Politics 2. Considering Holocaust Uniqueness: From Hebrew Peoplehood to the Americanization of Memory 3. Colonialism, Genocide, and Indigenous Rights: America, Australia, and New Zealand 4. Uncle Sam’s Willing Executioners? Indigenous Genocide and Representation in the United States 5. Australia: Aboriginal Genocide and the Holocaust 6. Indigenous History Through the Prism of the Holocaust: New Zealand Maori 7. The Armenian Genocide: The Politics of Recognition and Denial 8. The Armenian Genocide and Contemporary Holocaust Scholarship 9. Nanking, the Chinese Holocaust, and Japanese Atomic Victim Exceptionalism 10. Serbs, Croats, and the Dismemberment of Yugoslavia: War and Genocide in the Twentieth Century 11. Serbophobia and Victimhood: Serbia and the Successor Wars in Yugoslavia. Conclusions

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David B. MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

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