Jeffrey S. Bachman, "Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations" (Routledge, 2019)
New Books in Critical Theory
The Cultural Genocide of Indigenous Peoples
Cultural genecite is rarely ever singularly cultural. When the cultural techniques of destruction, such as force assimilation through residential schools, severa relationships between indigenous children and their families, territories, language and other than human relations, they also strike at the very material existence of the group. This is an ontological destruction that targets the complex intersections of nature and culture that make possible ongoing processes of group becoming. To name this as cultural genicide and then seek to repair it through restorative justice or reconciliation is to miss this larger point. In fact, the naming threatens a form of epistemological violence, as it imposes a way of seeing the world, as well as a pathway to
