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Handbook of Genocide Studies

9781800379336 Edward Elgar Publishing

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

Publication Date: 2023 ISBN: 978 1 80037 933 6 Extent: 320 pp

Providing an intellectual biography of the challenging concept of genocide, this topical Handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to shed new light on the events, processes, and legacies in the field.

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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 genocides and related pathologies of behaviour, this Handbook strives to spell out the multiple dimensions of genocide studies as an academic realm. In doing so, it incorporates a vast range of methods and disciplines, including historiography, archival research, listening to testimony, philosophical inquiry, film studies, and art criticism. Contributors address a broad array of episodes, including genocides of indigenous populations in the Americas and Africa, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, twentieth-century genocides in Indonesia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and twenty-first-century genocides in Iraq, Myanmar, and China. By developing a cross-disciplinary framework, this Handbook showcases the diversity that comprises the field and creates a rich understanding of the origin, effects, and legacy of genocide.

With a wide variety of perspectives, this Handbook will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars of international and human rights, public policy, and political geography and geopolitics, particularly those interested in genocide studies and the UN Genocide Convention.

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‘Reflecting the multi-disciplinary nature of genocide studies, this is an advanced Handbook of Genocide Studies, which engages with challenges in the field of genocide studies by examining how particular genocides and aspects of the genocide process impact the study of genocide. Taking the reader through key concepts, such as the birth of the term “genocide”, specific genocides, particular aspects of genocide, and important practical aspects of genocide such as genocide prevention, this is a valuable text for students and scholars of any discipline seeking to explore how we research this challenging field of study.’
– Melanie O’Brien, University of Western Australia and International Association of Genocide Scholars

Contributors

Contributors: Mohamed Adhikari, Charles H. Anderton, Daniel Conway, Anna Di Lello, Amélie Faucheux, Magnus Fiskesjö, Christian Gudehus, Douglas Irvin-Erikson, Aleksandar Jokic, Leora Kahn, Charlotte Kiechel, Ben Kiernan, Stéphanie Khoury, Paul Lowe, David MacDonald, Suren Manukyan, David J. Simon, Amy Sodaro, Kate E. Temoney, Anton Weiss-Wendt, Elmedin Žunić

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Contents:

Introduction to the Handbook of Genocide Studies 1
David J. Simon

PART I THE BIRTH OF A CONCEPT
1 The history of Raphaël Lemkin and the UN Genocide Convention 7
Douglas Irvin-Erickson

PART II GENOCIDE STUDIES: HISTORY AND IDEAS
2 Genocide of Indigenous peoples in North America 28
David MacDonald
3 Destroying to replace: reflections on motive forces behind
civilian-driven violence in settler genocides of Indigenous peoples 42
Mohamed Adhikari
4 The historiography of the Armenian genocide 54
Suren Manukyan
5 Holocaust research and genocide studies: facing the problem of integration 72
Charlotte Kiechel

PART III GENOCIDE STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
6 The interpretation and (non-)application of the Genocide Convention
during the Cold War 85
Anton Weiss-Wendt
7 Mass murder and genocide in Indonesia and Cambodia, 1965–79: Cold
War, state, and region 95
Ben Kiernan
8 The impact of genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia on genocide policy and
genocide studies 106
David J. Simon

PART IV GENOCIDE STUDIES AS SOCIAL SCIENCE
9 State strategies to implement (and hide) genocide in China and
Myanmar since 2017 123
Magnus Fiskesjö
10 Genocide prevention: perspectives from psychological and social
economic choice models 142
Charles H. Anderton
11 The potential of – and problems with – perpetrator research 158
Christian Gudehus
12 Making choices: the roles of rescuers in Rwanda and Bosnia 172
Leora Kahn
13 Trauma, grief, and bereavement after genocide: the Rwandan case 181
Amélie Faucheux
14 Religion and genocide studies 198
Kate E. Temoney
15 Gender and sexual violence in genocide 214
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 227
Daniel Conway
17 Music and genocide 238
Stéphanie Khoury
18 A network of witnesses: photography and genocide 249
Paul Lowe
19 Historical burden: art after genocide 263
Elmedin Žunić
20 Museums and the memory of genocide 277
Amy Sodaro

PART VI GENOCIDE IN DISCOURSE
21 Questionable practices in genocide discourse 290
Aleksandar Jokic

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