Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide

<p>In an era of globalization and identity politics this book explores how Holocaust imagery and vocabulary have been appropriated and applied to other genocides. </p><p>The 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:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>explains 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</li> <p> </p> <li>explores the Holocaust in relation to colonialism and indigenous genocide with case studies on America Australia and New Zealand</li> <p> </p> <li>analyzes the Holocaust in relation to war and genocide with case studies on the Armenian genocide the Rape of Nanking Serbia and the Rwandan genocide</li> <p> </p> <li>examines how the Holocaust has been used to promote animal rights.</li> </ul><p>Demonstrating 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.</p>