Genocide Studies

Pathways Ahead

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3232-9 (ISBN)

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This book seeks not to answer the question, ""What is genocide?"" but rather ""What is Genocide Studies?"" When Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in 1944 he could not have foreseen what the world would look like today. Now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future.

In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. Moreover, climate change continues to plow ahead, contributing to growing tensions, population movements, and resource scarcity. Meanwhile, the methods by which groups and group life are threatened, and the means by which violence is incited and perpetrated, continue to evolve. Such divergent crises, even when they overlap or intersect, confound definition and label. This book seeks not to answer the question "What is genocide?" but rather "What is genocide studies?" When Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in 1944, he could not have foreseen what the world would look like today. Now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future.

JEFFREY S. BACHMAN is an associate professor at American University's School of International Service. He is the author of The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the Relationship and the editor of Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations.

Introduction: Charting Pathways Ahead for Genocide Studies
JEFFREY S. BACHMAN
1 The Need for Education about the Holocaust and Genocide in the Twenty-First Century
SARA E. BROWN

Part I Evolving and Emerging Forms and Tools of Genocide
2 The New Prominence of Alternative Forms of Genocidal Violence
ESTHER BRITO
3 Genocide, “Destitucide,” and the COVID-19 Pandemic
ADAM JONES
4 Resource-Induced Mass Atrocity: Famine as Genocide in the Era of Climate Change
ELISABETH HOPE MURRAY
5 Genocide in the Digital Era
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

Part II Agency, Human–Nonhuman Relations, Social Being, and Identity
6 Weapons, Agency, and Genocide
BENJAMIN MEICHES
7 “We Are Our Mountains”: Pathways toward a Post-anthropocentric Genocide Studies
ANDREW WOOLFORD AND WANDA JUNE
8 Ecocidio and Genocidas: Anthropological Reflections on Existence and Extermination in Latin America
EVA VAN ROEKEL
9 Reentry and Reintegration Following Genocide: Emerging Findings from Post-1994 Rwanda
HOLLIE NYSE TH NZI TAT IRA AND JAMIE D. WISE

Part III Genocide Studies and Permanent Security
10 Accounting for Permanent Security: The Light and Shadow of Transitional Justice
LAUREN MARIE BALASCO
11 Permanent Security: Unsettling Genocide Studies
JEFFREY S. BACHMAN
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
Co-Autor	Jeffrey S. Bachman, Sara E. Brown, Esther Brito, Adam Jones
Zusatzinfo	4 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	68 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-9788-3232-X / 197883232X
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3232-9 / 9781978832329
Zustand	Neuware