The politics of annihilation: a genealogy of genocide

Introduction : genocide as political discourse

Groups, paradoxes of identity, and the racialization of global politics

Parts, wholes, and the erasure of indigenous life

Destruction and the creativity of violence

Desire, international law, and the problem of unintentional genocide

The logistics of prevention and the fantasy of preemption

Genocide as politics and the horror of plasticity

The sense of genocide and the politics of the future.