[RSCT] Films about Genocide? Films about Hegemony?

mbrady22 at cfl.rr.com mbrady22 at cfl.rr.com
Fri Aug 29 15:20:46 EDT 2008


---- Duane Campbell <campd at csus.edu> wrote: 
> I think an interesting addition would be a film to cover the Great  
> Hunger in Ireland 1846-1848.  It certainly was genocide...

       I'm inclined to think that in this case "genocide" isn't an accurate word.  It implies intent to eliminate a population, when the original immediate cause was over-reliance on a single food source -- "lazy-hill" production of potatoes.

Marion Brady 



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