Historical sociologist @IBEI @SussexGlobal. Books: The New Age of Genocide (out Oct), What is Genocide?, history of CND, racism/Brexit. https://t.co/LftWWz3RdM.
May 11 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Gaza has brought genocide to the centre of world politics and the idea back to the centre of political and intellectual debate. In The New Age of Genocide, due October 7, I dissect the genocide, the denial, and their implications for understanding. A 🧵 agendapub.com/page/detail/th…
I analyse the vicissitudes of the concept from its origins in Lemkin & the UN Convention to its contested return in the 2020s, first over Ukraine, and then in the acknowledgement - too slow, due to weak understanding as well as Israel-inspired denial - of the genocide in Gaza. /2
May 19, 2024 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
This thread by @ProfPaulPoast asks what's wrong with the word "genocide". I ask the opposite question: What's right with it? Why is it useful, indeed essential, & why are other concepts insufficient, in analysing armed conflict, especially in cases like Gaza & Ukraine? [THREAD]
Massive civilian harm is an endemic feature of modern war. While sometimes harm is the "collateral", i.e. unintended, effect of action against an armed enemy, when this action is continuously repeated in the knowledge of its effects, it can be seen as intentional. /2
Mar 13, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
The #Ukraine#genocide debate has been hampered by narrow legal framing + overemphasis on Putin's denial of Ukrainian identity. My article for @JournalGenocide addresses the radicalisation towards wider social destruction in Russia's escalating war. 🧵
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Legal writer @NoelleQuenivet1 argues (& Wm Schabas agrees) that no "special intention" to commit genocide can be shown of Russia's campaign. I offer a detailed critique of the ICJ's historically flawed Bosnia judgement (2007) that underpins this argument.
