RT Conference Proceedings DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 1280524029 LA English T1 Civilian-driven violence and the genocide of indigenous peoples in settler societies A1 Adhikari, Mohamed, YR 2021 SN 9780367858919 0367858916 9781032048130 1032048131 AB Existing studies of settler colonial genocides explicitly consider the roles of metropolitan and colonial states, and their military forces in the perpetration of exterminatory violence in settler colonial situations, yet rarely pay specific attention to the dynamics around civilian-driven mass violence against indigenous peoples. In many cases, however, civilians were major, if not the main, perpetrators of such violence. The focus of this book is thus on the role of civilians as perpetrators of exterminatory violence and on those elements within settler colonial situations that promoted mass violence on their part.