{"product_id":"identity-politics-in-the-age-of-genocide-the-holocaust-and-historical-representation-9780415430616","title":"Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David B. Macdonald\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Demography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an era of globalization and identity politics, this book explores how Holocaust imagery and vocabulary have been appropriated and applied to other genocides. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author examines how the Holocaust has impacted on other ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust as a symbol is a useful or destructive means of reading non-Jewish history. This volume: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eexplains the rise of the Holocaust as a gradual process, charting how its importance as a symbol has evolved, providing a theoretical framework to understand how and why non-Jewish groups choose to invoke 'holocausts' to apply to other events\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eexplores the Holocaust in relation to colonialism and indigenous genocide, with case studies on America, Australia and New Zealand\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eanalyzes the Holocaust in relation to war and genocide, with case studies on the Armenian genocide, the Rape of Nanking, Serbia and the Rwandan genocide\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eexamines how the Holocaust has been used to promote animal rights.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDemonstrating both the opportunities and pitfalls the Holocaust provides to non-Jewish groups who seek to represent their collective histories, this book fills a much needed gap on the use of the Holocaust in contemporary identity politics and will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, the Holocaust and genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46929701109911,"sku":"9780415430616","price":11277.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415430616.webp?v=1771601569","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/identity-politics-in-the-age-of-genocide-the-holocaust-and-historical-representation-9780415430616","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}