Email Query to the Genocide Heads
Sep. 5th, 2010 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purejuiceDear Friends,
I know it is a trope to link genocide to economic turmoil, as most recently seen in journalism surrounding the rising ride of xenophobia in the European Union against the Roma.
But is it really true? Has anybody done a survey of economic turmoil to see if genocide is significantly and statistically related?
I am painfully aware of the way the common wisdom, the necessities of national myth and so on severely deform the study of genocide. I am wondering if this connection is also part of the common wisdom which real scholarship would show to be just plain not true.
I am perfectly willing for it to be true, but it seems to be one of those motives for genocide -- in which races are conflated with their capital, for example, the Sino-Khmer or the Jews as richies, and African Americans and the Roma as poories -- which is exculpatory.
With thanks, and etc
PJ
From the NYT/4/2/00
Europe talks much of common aspirations and a continental identity. But the 1990's made clear that Europe's most virulent problem remains prejudice toward minorities and their exclusion from a full range of democratic rights.
The Yugoslav civil wars focused attention on the dangers of a militant nationalism, but in a misleading way. When most of Europe goes to war with a small corner of the continent to defend the rights of an oppressed people in Kosovo, it can seem as if Europeans have learned the lesson of tolerance and are simply disciplining an outmoded recalcitrant, Slobodan Milosevic.
But the worsening plight of the Roma and the increasing intolerance in central and eastern Europe after 1989 are bracing antidotes to smugness about the post-Communist spread of shared values.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/weekinreview/ideas-trend-no-room-for-gypsies-across-new-europe-people-deemed-unfit-for.html?scp=1&sq=no%20room%20for%20gypsies&st=cse
I know it is a trope to link genocide to economic turmoil, as most recently seen in journalism surrounding the rising ride of xenophobia in the European Union against the Roma.
But is it really true? Has anybody done a survey of economic turmoil to see if genocide is significantly and statistically related?
I am painfully aware of the way the common wisdom, the necessities of national myth and so on severely deform the study of genocide. I am wondering if this connection is also part of the common wisdom which real scholarship would show to be just plain not true.
I am perfectly willing for it to be true, but it seems to be one of those motives for genocide -- in which races are conflated with their capital, for example, the Sino-Khmer or the Jews as richies, and African Americans and the Roma as poories -- which is exculpatory.
With thanks, and etc
PJ
From the NYT/4/2/00
Europe talks much of common aspirations and a continental identity. But the 1990's made clear that Europe's most virulent problem remains prejudice toward minorities and their exclusion from a full range of democratic rights.
The Yugoslav civil wars focused attention on the dangers of a militant nationalism, but in a misleading way. When most of Europe goes to war with a small corner of the continent to defend the rights of an oppressed people in Kosovo, it can seem as if Europeans have learned the lesson of tolerance and are simply disciplining an outmoded recalcitrant, Slobodan Milosevic.
But the worsening plight of the Roma and the increasing intolerance in central and eastern Europe after 1989 are bracing antidotes to smugness about the post-Communist spread of shared values.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/weekinreview/ideas-trend-no-room-for-gypsies-across-new-europe-people-deemed-unfit-for.html?scp=1&sq=no%20room%20for%20gypsies&st=cse
