Genocide in Colonial South-West Africa: The German War against the Herero and Nama, 1904–1907

Schaller, Dominik J.

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“…When we consider cases of murderous destruction of human groups in the contemporary world, there are undeniably fraught and highly politicized and moralistic debates over the naming of this destruction as genocide, or not. 1 When Raphael Lemkin (1944) coined the term in the midst of the Second World War's atrocities, he rejected previous terms used to describe the extermination of the Hereros and Namas by German colonial authorities at the start of that century, or the Armenians and other minorities at the end of the Ottoman Empire, terms such as "mass murder" or "völkermord" (the murder of a nation/ people) (Becker, 2008;Schaller, 2011). Instead, Lemkin created a new name, genocide, the term which was then taken up and codified in one of the first conventions of the newly-formed United Nations and, indeed, which became "one of the most powerful in any language, and […which] reshaped the moral landscape of the world" (Luban, 2006, p. 307).…”

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The Inefficacy of Naming Genocide in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Pohlman¹

2020

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This article examines two cases of ongoing persecution in Southeast Asia and the problems of naming either genocide. Specifically, I discuss the politics of naming the decades’ long persecution of the Rohingya in Burma and West Papuans genocide. Both cases highlight some critical points of contention within the field of genocide studies which revolve around competing conceptions of how and what genocides destroy. Often separated into liberal and post-liberal camps, or those which conceive of genocide as a crime or as a process, these competing views create deep divisions over what cases of mass violence can be named genocide, or not. I take up some of these highly politicized and moralistic debates around the naming of genocide in light of these two contemporary Southeast Asian cases; that of the Rohingya which arguably has been recognised as a case of genocide since the latest wave of violence in 2017; and the case of West Papua, which remains very much at the fringes of genocide studies. I also draw on the work of a range of scholars who question the “effectivity” of naming genocide. I argue that, in these two contemporary Southeast Asian cases, naming (Rohingya) and not-naming (West Papua) cases of ongoing persecution genocide has had little effect whatsoever.

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Section: A Name and Its Unfulfilled Promisementioning

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The Inefficacy of Naming Genocide in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Pohlman¹

2020

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“…The Nama and Hereros were not so fortunate; the European settlers took their land and cattle. In retaliation, these Africans rebelled, which culminated in the GermanHerero war of 1904, where approximately 60,000 Hereros and 10,000 Namas were killed (roughly 80% of their populations) (Schaller 2011). After the war, the Hereros fled to the east-a vast, barren semi-desert with insufficient water.…”

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Carnivores, Colonization, and Conflict: A Qualitative Case Study on the Intersectional Persecution of Predators and People in Namibia

Rust

Taylor

2016

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“…In retaliation, the black Africans rebelled, which culminated in the German-Herero war of 1904, where approximately 60,000 Hereros and 10,000 Namas were killed (totalling roughly 80% of their populations) (Schaller, 2011). By 1907, the Germans had confiscated all cattle from the Hereros and forced them into labour concentration camps to develop their settler colony (Madley, 2005).…”

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Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

Rust¹

2018

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Many carnivore populations were in decline throughout much of the 20 th century, but due to recent conservation policies, their numbers are stabilising or even increasing in some areas of the world. This, compounded with human population growth, has caused increased livestock depredation by carnivores, which threatens farmer livelihoods, particularly those in developing countries such as Namibia. How to resolve this so-called "conflict" between carnivores and livestock farmers remains challenging, in part because some mitigation strategies have proven somewhat ineffective or unacceptable. By using a case-study approach on the commercial farmlands of northcentral Namibia, I aimed to understand the complexity of the human dimensions affecting coexistence between carnivores and people in an unprotected working landscape. Specifically, my objectives were to 1) develop a participatory decisionmaking exercise to analyse the views of stakeholders on how they would like carnivores to be managed in unprotected lands, 2) understand how the media framed financial incentives to improve human-carnivore coexistence, and 3) determine if there were any underlying social, economic or political causes of negative human-carnivore interactions on commercial livestock farms.To answer objective 1, I developed a new decision-making exercise that combined Q-methodology and the Delphi technique to determine whether a diverse group of stakeholders could agree on how to manage carnivores on commercial farmland. A strong agreement was reached by participants: providing conservation education and training on livestock husbandry were acceptable and effective ways to improve coexistence with carnivores. This new also method highlighted areas of disagreement between stakeholders and showed that there were two different narratives on how carnivores should be managed. This method could be used by policy makers to help with participatory decision-making for resolving other conservation conflicts.To answer objective 2, I undertook content analysis of national newspapers to determine how the media framed articles on financial incentives to mitigate this conservation conflict. The most common (30%) financial incentive discussed was compensation -many (61%) of these articles framed compensation positively. Niki Rust © 2015However, upon categorising these articles into those where respondents were enrolled in compensation schemes compared with those who were not, a clear pattern emerged: articles were more likely (89%) to be framed ambivalently or negatively when respondents had experience of this financial incentive compared with respondents that did not. These results can help conservationists plan more effective communication interventions and anticipate issues that can affect the success of mitigation strategies.To answer objective 3, I undertook eight months of participant observation on livestock farms and interviewed 69 respondents and found that reported livestock depredation was associated with increased instances of poaching of wildl...

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Genocide in Colonial South-West Africa: The German War against the Herero and Nama, 1904–1907

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The Inefficacy of Naming Genocide in Contemporary Southeast Asia

The Inefficacy of Naming Genocide in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Carnivores, Colonization, and Conflict: A Qualitative Case Study on the Intersectional Persecution of Predators and People in Namibia

Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

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