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Racism and Genocide. Theory, Law and Views from Latin America

Fri, May 29, 10:00 to 11:45am, TBA

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In the last years the term "genocide" -which expresses an extremely violent political and cultural phenomenon involving extermination of one of several ethnically, racially and/or religiously determined peoples- has been used very frequently in the press, in conversations, in the social networks an even in academy to describe very different types of state, ethnic, military or police violence directed to very different types of human groups.
In this panel we will discuss if these ways of referring to this concept are not leading to cheapen it, to lose its true and specific significance, something which in turn leads to banalize that kind of extremely brutal violence intended and/or conducted towards exterminating an ethnic, a religious or a cultural human group.
The papers in this panel will engage in this discussion in three ways: a) by presenting the subject in theoretical, conceptual and/or legal terms; b) by analyzing a particular case in Latin America from the perspective of the relationship between racism and genocide and in which the use of the term genocide will be theoretically justified, or c) by discussing the ways Latin America looks, feels and thinks about some of today’s violent phenomena taking place in other latitudes that are being internationally discussed in terms of genocide or non genocide.

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