{"id":693,"date":"2011-04-21T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=693"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:53:31","slug":"genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/04\/21\/genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by lambda_X on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/25744394@N04\/5494402463\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5053\/5494402463_4bfa40a87d_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genocide is fundamentally social, though sociologists often ignore it in research and in the classroom. \u00a0A lesson on genocide could be part of multiple course units, such as ethnic conflict\/war, race, crime\/criminology, law, human rights, collective memory, etc. \u00a0 Here&#8217;s one of many ideas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assign John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond&#8217;s article &#8220;The Collective Dynamics of Racial\u00a0Dehumanization and Genocidal Victimization in Darfur&#8221; (ASR 2008). \u00a0 Also consider assigning\u00a0<em>Contexts&#8217; <\/em>podcast with author John Hagan, which can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2009\/04\/26\/genocide-in-darfur-and-white-supremacists-in-the-us\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few questions to consider:<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0What is the legal definition of genocide?<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Why are only some groups protected under the legal definition of genocide? \u00a0Should other groups be included?<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0How does genocide differ from crimes against humanity?<\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0How do Hagan and Rymond-Richmond explain genocide?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genocide is fundamentally social, though sociologists often ignore it in research and in the classroom. \u00a0A lesson on genocide could be part of multiple course units, such as ethnic conflict\/war, race, crime\/criminology, law, human rights, collective memory, etc. \u00a0 Here&#8217;s one of many ideas: Assign John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond&#8217;s article &#8220;The Collective Dynamics of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[1075,461,4454,838],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-genocide","tag-human-rights","tag-memory","tag-readings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}