Wolfe’s genocide-as-structure concept leaves the thought-structure driving it unexplained

Evidence

This leaves his account tantalizing, for it is he who, after all, coined and insisted on the boundlessly insightful dictum that “genocide is a structure not an event.” Wolfe gives due regard to the processual component of genocide’s structure, but the structure of thought within his concept of “structure,” that which drives action, remains unarticulated. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 384

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Wolfe’s structural/processual view of genocide from the deeper ‘structure of thought’ Hallaq wants to excavate — a useful framework contrast.
• XREF: Links to Foucault-inspired analysis of discourse and to Said’s Orientalism; the criticism that material/superstructural analysis misses deeper epistemic structures resonates with the book’s earlier chapters.