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dc.contributor.authorBellamy, Alex
dc.contributor.editorIan Ward & Andrew Bonnell
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:49:47Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:49:47Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-06-17T01:13:29Z
dc.identifier.issn14678497
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01630.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/48604
dc.description.abstractHow do the perpetrators of mass killing legitimise their behaviour? This article examines the legitimation of some of the worst cases of mass killing in the past two centuries. It finds that the colonial experience helped establish a moral framework that facilitated arguments designed to place whole groups beyond normal legal and moral protection on account of some assigned traits. This moral framework was evident in different colonial settings and rested on claims negating the right of the victim group to protection and claims valourising their violent extermination. It also underpinned the moral justifications offered by perpetrators of some of the twentieth century's worst episodes of mass killing. This article examines the "family resemblances" between the arguments used by perpetrators in different settings, indentifies their common structure, and examines the factors that influenced their capacity to secure legitimacy for mass killing.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom159
dc.relation.ispartofpageto180
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Journal of Politics and History
dc.relation.ispartofvolume58
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational Relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and Administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160607
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1605
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2103
dc.titleMass Killing and the Politics of Legitimacy: Empire and the Ideology of Selective Extermination
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of International Business and Asian Studies
gro.date.issued2012
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBellamy, Alex J.


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