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Handbook of genocide studies / edited by David J. Simon (Senior Lecturer, Jackson School of Global Affairs and Director, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University) and Leora Kahn (Visiting Scholar-Practitioner, University of Dayton and Executive Director of PROOF Media for Social Justice, US).

"Providing an intellectual biography of the challenging concept of genocide from inception to present day, this topical Handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to shed new light on the events, processes, and legacies in the field. Reaching beyond the traditional study of canonical genocide...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Simon, David John, 1970- (Editor), Kahn, Leora (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2023]
Subjects:
Genocide > Study and teaching.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction to the handbook of genocide studies / David J. Simon
  • Part I. The birth of a concept
  • 1. The history of Raphaël Lemkin and the UN genocide convention / Douglas Irvin-Erickson
  • Part II. Genocide studies: history and ideas
  • 2. Genocide of indigenous peoples in North America / David MacDonald
  • 3. Destroying to replace: reflections on motive forces behind civilian-driven violence in settler genocides of indigenous peoples / Mohamed Adhikari
  • 4. The historiography of the Armenian genocide / Suren Manukyan
  • 5. Holocaust research and genocide studies: facing the problem of integration / Charlotte Kiechel
  • Part III. Genocide studies and international relations
  • 6. The interpretation and (non-)application of the genocide convention during the Cold War / Anton Weiss-Wendt
  • 7. Mass murder and genocide in Indonesia and Cambodia, 1965-79: Cold War, state, and region / Ben Kiernan
  • 8. The impact of genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia on genocide policy and genocide studies / David J. Simon
  • Part IV. Genocide studies as social science
  • 9. State strategies to implement (and hide) genocide in China and Myanmar since 2017 / Magnus Fiskesjö
  • 10. Genocide prevention: perspectives from psychological and social economic choice models / Charles H. Anderton
  • 11. The potential of - and problems with - perpetrator research / Christian Gudehus
  • 12. Making choices: the roles of rescuers in Rwanda and Bosnia / Leora Kahn
  • 13. Trauma, grief, and bereavement after genocide: the Rwandan case / Amélie Faucheux
  • 14. Religion and genocide studies / Kate E. Temoney
  • 15. Gender and sexual violence in genocide / Anna Di Lellio
  • Part V. Genocide studies in the arts and humanites
  • 16. Reframing the moment of first contact: lessons from the cinematic genre of science fiction / Daniel Conway
  • 17. Music and genocide / Stéphanie Khoury
  • 18. A network of witnesses: photography and genocide / Paul Lowe
  • 19. Historical burden: art after genocide / Elmedin Zunić
  • 20. Museums and the memory of genocide / Amy Sodaro
  • Part VI. Genocide in discourse
  • 21. Questionable practices in genocide discourse / Aleksandar Jokic
  • Index.

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