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Destroy Them Gradually reframes forced displacement as an annihilatory process, rather than as an event that precedes an atrocity. Displacement crimes are defined as the unique fusion of forced displacement with systemic deprivations of vital daily needs to destroy populations.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Displacement Atrocity Crimes
Chapter 1 Extirpation: Understanding Annihilatory Forced Displacement
Chapter 2 Exposure: A Theory of Displacement Atrocity Crimes
Part II: German South-West Africa
Chapter 3 Trepidation: Colonized Namibia and Violent Horizons (1652-1904)
Chapter 4 Extermination: Germany’s Genocide of the Herero (1904-1908)
Chapter 5 Inescapability: The Nama Genocide (1905-1908)
Part III: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Chapter 6 Collapse: The Nadir of the Ottoman Empire (1839-1915)
Chapter 7 Excision: The Ottoman Genocide of Christian Minorities (1914-1925)
Chapter 8 Neurosis: The Hamidian Massacres (1894-1897)
Part IV: Central and East Europe
Chapter 9 Metamorphosis: A World Made New (9th Century-1945)
Chapter 10 Catharsis: The Expulsion of the Germans (1944-1950)
Chapter 11 Desolation: The Holocaust (1933-1945)
Part V: Climate Violence and Conclusions
Chapter 12 Tragedy: Logics of Displacement in the 21st Century
Chapter 13 Farce: To Destroy Them Gradually?
Chapter 14 Praxis: Seeking Justice and Disrupting Pathways
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
About the author
ANDREW R. BASSO is an adjunct faculty member with the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy and Wilfrid Laurier University. He researches transitional justice, human
rights, and political violence in local and global contexts. He is the coauthor of
From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home (Rutgers University Press, 2022).
Summary
Destroy Them Gradually reframes forced displacement as an annihilatory process, rather than as an event that precedes an atrocity. Displacement crimes are defined as the unique fusion of forced displacement with systemic deprivations of vital daily needs to destroy populations.
