The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies

 

Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of 'genocide studies' has developed to offer analysis and comprehension.

The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies is the first book to subject both genocide and the young discipline it has spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Chapters examine secessionist and political genocides in modern Asia. Others treat the violent dynamics of European colonialism in Africa, the complex ethnic geography of the Great Lakes region, and the structural instability of the continent's northern horn. South and North America receive detailed coverage, as do the Ottoman Empire, Nazi-occupied Europe, and post-communist Eastern Europe. Sustained attention is paid to themes like gender, memory, the state, culture, ethnic cleansing, military intervention, the United Nations, and prosecutions.

The work is multi-disciplinary, featuring the work of historians, anthropologists, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, and philosophers.

Uniquely combining empirical reconstruction and conceptual analysis, this Handbook presents and analyses regions of genocide and the entire field of 'genocide studies' in one substantial volume.

 

Table of Contents

Part I: CONCEPTS

1: Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses: Editor's Introduction: Changing Themes in the Study of Genocide

2: A. Dirk Moses: Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide

3: Ben Lieberman: 'Ethnic Cleansing' versus Genocide?

4: Elisa von Joeden-Forgey: Gender and Genocide

5: Anton Weiss-Wendt: The State and Genocide

6: Dan Stone: Genocide and Memory

Part II: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

7: William Schabas: The Law and Genocide

8: Martin Shaw: Sociology and Genocide

9: Scott Straus: Political Science and Genocide

10: Kevin Lewis O'Neill: Anthropology and Genocide

11: Paul Roth: Social Psychology and Genocide

12: Martin Shuster: Philosophy and Genocide

Part III: PREMODERN AND EARLY MODERN GENOCIDE

13: Hans van Wees: Antiquity

14: James Fraser: Early Medieval Europe

15: Len Scales: Central and Late Medieval Europe

16: Nicolas A. Robins: Colonial Latin America

17: Greg Smithers: Rethinking Genocide in North America

Part IV: GENOCIDE IN THE LATE MODERN WORLD

18: Dominik Schaller: Genocide and Mass Violence in the 'Heart of Darkness': Africa in the Colonial Period

19: Hilmar Kaiser: Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire

20: Nicolas Werth: Mass Deportations, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocidal Politics in the Later Russian Empire and the USSR

21: Christopher Browning: The Nazi Empire

22: Uradyn Bulag: Twentieth Century China: Ethnic Assimilation and Inter-Group Violence

23: Robert Cribb: Political Genocides in Postcolonial Asia

24: Geoffrey Robinson: State Violence and Secessionist Rebellions in Asia

25: Daniel Feierstein: National Security Doctrine in Latin America: the Genocide Question

26: Cathie Carmichael: Genocide and Population Displacement in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

27: Alex de Waal: Genocidal Warfare in North-East Africa

28: Omar McDoom: War and Genocide in Africa's Great Lakes Region since Independence

Part V: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: RULES AND RESPONSES

29: Gerd Hankel: The United, Nations, The Cold War, and its Legacy

30: Alex J. Bellamy: Military Intervention

31: Donald Bloxham and Devin O. Pendas: Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Prosecuting Génocidaires

32: Mark Levene: From Past to Future: Future Prospects for Genocide and its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century