Late-century genocides became the arena for questioning narratives of progress

Evidence

Holocaust; he argues that they fail to interrogate the way that the Shoah or Holocaust reveals the violent underpinnings of the desire for order and control that lies at the heart of modern society and its thirst for order and control (see also Bauman, 1990). While Bauman is certainly correct, the question for me is less one of whether the Holocaust is modern than it is the status of it and other genocides during the past half century as a key locus for debating metanarratives of modernity. As the killings in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, East Timor, and elsewhere marked the century’s close, genocide provided a crucial arena for questioning linear narratives of progress, modernity, democracy, and the “rule of law” versus the politics of force. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 254

Categorization

• XREF: Bauman’s thesis that the Holocaust reveals modernity’s ordering impulse connects to how critics elsewhere in the vault tie bureaucratic rationalization to state violence.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 254