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Utilitarian genocideis one of five forms ofgenocidecategorized and defined in 1975 by genocide scholarVahakn Dadrian.[note 1]Utilitarian genocide is distinctly different fromideologicallymotivated genocides likethe Holocaustand theCambodian genocide.This form of genocide has as its aim some form of material gain, such as the seizure of territory in order to gain control of economic resources for commercial exploitation.[2][3]Two given examples of this form are thegenocide of indigenous peoples in Braziland thegenocide of indigenous peoples in Paraguay.[4]
This form of genocide was highly prominent during theEuropean colonial expansionsintothe Americas,Asia,andAfrica.Theindigenouspopulationcollapsedfrom a combination of murder,enslavementand disease (mostlysmallpox).[5]Dadrian has also given as further examples of utilitarian genocide the murders ofMoorsandJewsduring theSpanish Inquisitionand the deaths ofCherokee Indiansduring thewestward expansionof the United States via the process ofIndian removal.[6]
This type of genocide has continued into the twentieth century, with the ongoing genocide of indigenous tribes in the rain forests of South America primarily due to industrial progress and the development of resources within their territories; as these regions are exploited for economic gain the indigenous peoples are considered a "hindrance" and are forcibly relocated or killed.[7][8]
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- ^"The pioneer genocide scholar Vahakn Dadrian introduced the concept of" utilitarian genocide "in a landmark 1975 article," A Typology of Genocide. "He identified five" ideal types "of genocide, based mainly on the primary objective of the perpetrator:
- cultural genocide,aiming at assimilation;
- latent genocide, a by-product of war;
- retributive genocide, localized punishment;
- utilitarian genocide, to obtain wealth;
- optimal genocide, aiming at total obliteration ".[1]
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- ^Markusen & Bjørnlund.
- ^Kakar 1997,p. 214.
- ^Mertens 2005.
- ^Hitchcock & Twedt 2008,p. 547.
- ^Grenke 2005,pp. 223–224.
- ^Smeulers 2011,p. 170.
- ^Smith 2000,p. 25.
- ^Alvarez 2001,p. 50.
Sources[edit]
- Alvarez, Alex (2001).Governments, Citizens, and Genocide: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach.Indiana University Press.ISBN978-0-253-33849-5.
- Grenke, Arthur (2005).God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust Through the Centuries.New Academia Publishing.ISBN978-0976704201.
- Hitchcock, Robert K.; Twedt, Tara M. (2008). "Physical and Cultural Genocide of Indigenous Peoples". In Samuel Totten; William S. Parsons (eds.).Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts(3rd ed.). Routledge. pp. 530–608.ISBN978-0415990851.
- Kakar, M. Hassan (1997).Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982.University of California Press.ISBN978-0520208933.
- Markusen, Eric; Bjørnlund, Matthias."Utilitarian Genocide (Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity)".E-Notes.[dead link]
- Mertens, Allison (13 October 2005)."Genocide definition is crucial: Jonassohn".Concordia.
- Smeulers, Alette (2011). Alette Smeulers; Fred Grünfeld (eds.).International Crimes and Other Gross Human Rights Violations: A Multi- And Interdisciplinary Textbook.Martinus Nijhoff.ISBN978-9004208049.
- Smith, Roger W. (2000). Isidor Wallimann; Michael N. Dobkowski (eds.).Genocide and the Modern Age: Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death.Syracuse University Press. pp. 21–40.ISBN978-0815628286.