HIS214H5: Comparative Genocide

— provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept, including an extended discussion of the concept of genocidal intent, and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes
— discusses the role of state-building, imperialism, war, and social revolution in fueling genocide
— supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocides worldwide, each with an accompanying box-text
— explores perspectives on genocide from the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science/international relations, and gender studies
— considers "The Future of Genocide," with attention to historical memory and genocide denial; initiatives for truth, justice, and redress; and strategies of intervention and prevention.

This book addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The book is framed by an introductory essay that spells out definitional issues, as well as the promises, complexities, and barriers to the prevention and intervention of genocide.

Meierhenrich provides an introduction to the myriad dimensions of this darkest of human phenomena, and to the various ways of making sense of it - from autobiographical remembering to journalistic reporting to theoretical reasoning.

This book traces the emergence of genocide studies, analyzing its central concepts, methods and research themes, and providing detailed guides to the rich and varied historiographies of many cases of genocide, this book is an invaluable guide to the literature.

This book provides short histories of nine culturally and historically diverse societies where such crimes occurred during the 20th century, including the Ottoman Empire in Armenia, the USSR in the Eastern Ukraine, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under Pol Pot, Burundi, Rwanda, Argentina, Chile, and Yugoslavia.

— Anton Weiss-Wendt, “Problems in Comparative Genocide Scholarship": 42-70.

Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still disputed: How do ordinary people become mass murderers?

— Scott Straus, “The Promise and Limits of Comparison: The Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda,” 245-258.

— Mobassera Jahan Fatima and Aytül Tamer Torun, “Representation of Rohingya Refugees in the Bangladeshi Media: A Content Analysis,” in Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Myanmar, ed. Kudret Bülbül, Md. Nazmul Islam, Md. Sajid Khan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 261-289.

— Dilpreet Bhullar, “The Vulnerability of Visual Vocabulary on Refugee Representation: The Voyage of Boatwo/men Rohingya,” in Seeing South Asia: Visuals Beyond Borders, ed. Dev Nath Pathak, Biswajit Das, and Ratan Kumar Roy (London: Routledge India, 2022).