The Chittagong Hill Tracts: a case study in the political economy of "creeping" genocide.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts: a case study in the political economy of "creeping" genocide.
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吉大港山区:“悄然发生”种族灭绝的政治经济学案例研究。
DOI:
10.1080/01436599913794
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
M. Levene
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作者:
M. Levene
The destruction of indigenous, tribal peoples in remote and/or frontier regions of the developing world is often assumed to be the outcome of inexorable, even inevitable forces of progress . People are not so much killed, they become extinct. Terms such as ethnocide, cultural genocide or developmental genocide suggest a distinct form of 'off the map' elimination which implicitly discourages comparison with other acknowledged examples of genocide. By concentrating on a little-known case study, that of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh, this article argues that this sort of categorisation is misplaced. Not only is the destruction or attempted destruction of fourth world peoples central to the pattern of contemporary genocide but, by examining such specific examples, we can more clearly delineate the phenomenon's more general wellsprings and processes. The example of the CHT does have its own peculiar features; not least what has been termed here its 'creeping' nature. In other respects, however...