Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies

Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies
ISBN-10
100041177X
ISBN-13
9781000411775
Category
History
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2021-07-13
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Mohamed Adhikari

Description

Existing studies of settler colonial genocides explicitly consider the roles of metropolitan and colonial states, and their military forces in the perpetration of exterminatory violence in settler colonial situations, yet rarely pay specific attention to the dynamics around civilian-driven mass violence against indigenous peoples. In many cases, however, civilians were major, if not the main, perpetrators of such violence. The focus of this book is thus on the role of civilians as perpetrators of exterminatory violence and on those elements within settler colonial situations that promoted mass violence on their part.

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