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HIS214H5: Comparative Genocide

South Africa: Herero and Namaqua

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Forgotten Genocides, Colonialism, and the Question of Reparations

Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity by Doctor Adam Jones (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2004
— Jan-Bart Gewald, “Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa: genocide and the quest for recompense,” (London: Zed Books, 2004), 59-77.
The History and Sociology of Genocide by Frank Chalk; Kurt Jonassohn
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 1990
— Horst Drechsler, “The Hereros of South-West Africa (Namibia),” (ed. Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn), 230-248.
Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts (4th ed.) by Editors: Samuel Totten and William S. Parsons
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2012
— Dominik J. Schaller, “The Genocide of the Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa, 1904-1907,” ed. Samuel Totten, 89-116.
The History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen by Editors: Jonathan Friedman and William Hewitt
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2016
— Mark Malisa and Meriem Lahrizi, “Genocide as European Empire Building: The Slaughter of the Herero of Namibia,” in History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen, ed. Jonathan Friedman and William Hewitt, I.B. Tauris, 2016. 55-68.

Holocaust and Genocide Studies
— David Bargueño, “Cash for Genocide?: The Politics of Memory in the Herero Case for Reparations,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 26, no. 3 (2012): 394-424.
Africa Is a Country
A site of opinion, analysis, and new writing on and from the African left.
— Perivi John Katjavivi, “New film tackles the legacy of the first genocide of the 20th century”

Armenia

A Genocide Denied?

The Armenían Genocíde: Cultural and Ethical Legacies by Richard G. Hovannisian
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2006
— Richard Hovannisian, “The Armenian Genocide: Wartime Radicalization or Premeditated Continuum?” The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies, 3-18.
Armenian-North American Literature: A Critical Introduction : Genocide, Diaspora, and Symbols by Lorne Shirinian
Call Number: PS153 .A75 S55 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Humanitarian Photography by Editors: Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rodogno
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2016
— Peter Balakian, “Photography, Visual Culture, and the Armenian Genocide,” in Humanitarian Photography, A History, 89-114.

Photographies
— Marie-Aude Baronian, “Image, Displacement, Prosthesis: Reflections on Making Visual Archives of the Armenian Genocide,” Photographies 3, no. 2 (2010):
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
— Katharine Derderian, “Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 19, no. 1 (2005).
Genocide Studies International (Genocide Studies and Prevention)
— Richard G. Hovannisian, “Denial of the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later,” Genocide Studies International 9, no. 2 (2015): 228-247.
Patterns of Prejudice
— Ugur Ümit Üngör, “Lost in Commemoration: the Armenian Genocide in Memory and Identity,” Patterns of Prejudice 48, no. 2 (2014): 147-166.

The Holocaust

Recording and Representing Genocide

War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris L. Bergen
Call Number: DD256.5 .B3916 2009
Publication Date: 2009
The Routledge History of the Holocaust by Editor: Jonathan C. Friedman
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2011
The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning
Call Number: D804.3 .B78 1992 ERIN
Publication Date: 1992
Images in Spite of All by Georges Didi-Huberman; Shane B. Lillis (Translator)
Call Number: D804.348 .D5313 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning
Call Number: D804.3 .B77 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2012

The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
— Laura Jockush, “Historiography in Transit: Survivor Historians and the Writing of Holocaust History in the late 1940s,” The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 58, no. 1 (2013): 75-94.
History and Memory
— Noah Shenker, “Through the Lens of the Shoah: The Holocaust as a Paradigm for Documenting Genocide Testimonies,” History and Memory 28, no. 1 (2016): 141-175
The American Historical Review
— Sarah Farmer, “Going Visual: Holocaust Representation and Historical Method,” The American Historical Review 115, no. 1 (2010): 115-122.

Cambodia

Memory and Memorialization

The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood, 1975-1980 by Molyda Szymusiak; Linda Coverdale (Translator)
Call Number: DS554.83 .S99 A3513 1986
Publication Date: 1986
Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts (4th ed.) by Editors: Samuel Totten and William S. Parsons
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2012
— Ben Kiernan, “The Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979,” Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, ed. Samuel Totten, 317-353.
Genocide: A Reader by Jens Meierhenrich
Call Number: HV6322.7 .G447 2014
Publication Date: 2014
— Alexander Laban Hinton, “A Head for an Eye: “Disproportionate Revenge” in the Cambodian Genocide,” in Genocide: A Reader, ed. Jens Meierhenrich, 236-239.
Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia by Michelle Caswell
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2014
How the Holocaust Looks Now: International Perspectives by Editors: Martin L. Davies; Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2006
— Jonathan Fuchs, “Visiting Memorials. A Worthwhile, Cathartic Experience, or A Waste of Time and Money,” How the Holocaust looks now. International Perspectives (Palgrave McMillan, 2006), p. 185-193.

Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies
— Soko Phay, “Missing Images of Genocide and Creation in Cambodia,” Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies 4, no. 1-2 (2015): 87-98.
Journal of Genocide Research
— Cheryl Lawther, Rachel Killean, and Lauren Dempster, “Making (In?)Visible: Selectivity, Visibility and Authenticity in Cambodia’s Sites of Atrocity,” Journal of Genocide Research 24, no. 1 (2022): 45-70.
— Rebecca Jinks, “Thinking Comparatively About Genocide Memorialization,” Journal of Genocide Research 16, no. 4 (2014): 423-440.
Social Inclusion
— Ljiljana Radonić, “People of Freedom and Unlimited Movement”: Representations of Roma in Post-Communist Memorial Museums,” Social Inclusion 3, no. 5 (2015): 64-77.
The American Indian Quarterly
— Jason Chalmers, “Settled Memories on Stolen Land: Settler Mythology at Canada’s National Holocaust Monument,” American Indian Quarterly 43, no. 4 (Fall 2019): 379-407.

Guatemala and Indonesia

Silence, Exhumation, and Impunity

Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts (4th ed.) by Editors: Samuel Totten and William S. Parsons
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2012
— Susanne Jonas, “Guatemala: Acts of Genocide and Scorched-earth Counterinsurgency War,” in S. Totten, William S. Parsons, and Israel W. Charny (eds.), Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (New York, 1997), 355-394.
Voices from Exile by Victor Montejo
Call Number: F1434.2 .W37 M65 1999 ERIN
Publication Date: 1999
— Victor Montejo, “Strategies of Cultural Survival,” in Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History, 144-183.
Pretext for Mass Murder by John Roosa
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2006

Journal of Genocide Research
— Elizabeth Oglesby & Diane M. Nelson, “Guatemala’s Genocide Trial and the Nexus of Racism and Counterinsurgency,” Journal of Genocide Research 18, no. 2-3 (2016): 133-142.
— Robert Cribb, “Genocide in Indonesia, 1965-1966,” Journal of Genocide Research 3, no. 2 (2001): 219-239.
— Katharine McGregor, “Exposing Impunity: Memory and Human Rights Activism in Indonesia and Argentina,” Journal of Genocide Research 19, no. 4 (2017): 551-573.
— Aboeprijadi Santoso and Gerry van Klinken, “Genocide Finally Enters Public Discourse: The International People’s Tribunal 1965,” Journal of Genocide Research 19, no. 4 (2017): 594-608.
— Martijn Eickhoff, Donny Danardono, Tjahjono Rahardjo & Hotmauli Sidabalok, “The Memory Landscapes of “1965” in Semarang,” Journal of Genocide Research 19, no. 4 (2017): 530-550.
When the Mountains Tremble (1983)
Documentary film: F1465.2 .Q5W44 2004

Former Yugoslavia

International Dimensions and Trials

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (2nd ed.) by Adam Jones
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2010
— Adam Jones, “Bosnia and Kosovo,” Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, 317-339.
Surviving the Bosnian Genocide by Selma Leydesdorff; Kay Richardson (Translator)
Call Number: DR1313.32 .S68 L4913 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Teaching about Genocide: Issues, Approaches, and Resources by Samuel Totten
Call Number: HV6322.7 .T43 2004X
Publication Date: 2004
Mass Rape: The War against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1994-12-31) by Alexandra Stiglmayer (Editor); Marion Faber (Translator); Roy Gutman (Foreword by); Cynthia Enloe (Afterword by)
Call Number: HV6569 .B54 M3713 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Genocide: A Reader by Jens Meierhenrich
Call Number: HV6322.7 .G447 2014
Publication Date: 2014
— David Rohde, “Srebrenica,” in Genocide: A Reader, ed. Jens Meierhenrich, 263-265
The History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen by Editors: Jonathan Friedman and William Hewitt
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2016
— David Pettigrew, “Cinematic Witnessing of the Genocide in Bosnia 1992-1995: Toward a Poetics of Responsibility,” The History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen, 207-219.

Memory Studies
— Janet Jacobs, “The memorial at Srebrenica: Gender and the social meanings of collective memory in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Memory Studies Vol 10, 4 (2017): 423-439.
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
— Lisa Parks, “Satellite Views of Srebrenica: Tele-visuality and the Politics of Witnessing,” Social Identities 7, no. 4 (2001): 585-611.
Journal for Cultural Research
— Damir Arsenijević, “Gendering the Bone: The Politics of Memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Journal for Cultural Research,15 no. 2, (2011): 193-205

Rwanda

Gender and Geography

Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda by Lee Ann Fujii
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2009
Film and Genocide by Editors: Kristi M. Wilson; Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Call Number: PN1995.9 .H53 F55 2012X
Publication Date: 2012
— Madelaine Hron, “Genres of “Yet An Other Genocide”: Cinematic Representations of Rwanda,” in Film and Genocide, 133-154.

Genocide Studies International (Genocide Studies and Prevention)
— Elizabeth King, “Memory Controversies in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Implications for Peacebuilding.” Genocide Studies and Prevention 5, no. 3 (2010): 293-309.
International Political Sociology
— Thomas Olesen, “Global Injustice Memories: The 1994 Rwanda Genocide,” International Political Sociology 6, no. 4 (2012): 373-389.
New Political Science
— Lisa Sharlach, “Rape as Genocide: Bangladesh, the Former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda,” New Political Science 22, no. 1 (2000): 89-102.

Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island

The Settler Colonial Mesh and Reconciliation

Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America by Editors: Alexander Laban Hinton; Andrew Woolford; Jeff Benvenuto
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2014
Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools by Theodore Fontaine
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2010
This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States by Andrew Woolford
Call Number: E96 .W66 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity by Doctor Adam Jones (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2004
— Ward Churchill, “Genocide by Any Other Name: North American Indian Residential Schools in Context,” in Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity: 78-115.
Truth and Indignation: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools by Ronald Niezen
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2017
— "Testimony,” 83-104.

Journal of Genocide Research
— Matthew Wildcat, “Fearing social and cultural death: genocide and elimination in settler colonial Canada – an Indigenous perspective,” Journal of Genocide Research 17, no. 4 (2015): 391-409.
— Andrew Woolford and Jeff Benvenuto, “Canada and colonial genocide,” Journal of Genocide Research 17, no. 4 (2015): 373-390.
Settler Colonial Studies
— Dale C. Spencer, “Extraction and Pulverization: a Narrative Analysis of Canada Scoop Survivors,” Settler Colonial Studies 7, no. 1 (2017): 57-71.
Studies in American Indian Literatures
— Kristin Dowell, “Residential Schools and “Reconciliation” in the Media Art of Skeena Reece and Lisa Jackson,” Studies in American Indian Literatures 29, no. 1 (2017): 116-138.
Transcultural Psychiatry
— Amy Bombay et. al. “The Intergenerational Effects of Indian Residential Schools: Implications for the Concept of Historical Trauma,” Transcultural Psychiatry 51, no. 3 (2014): 320-338.
Open Canada (Online Magazine)
Open Canada is an online magazine published by the Canadian International Council that aims to engage Canadians from all walks of life in a discussion about this country’s place in the world.
— Angela Sterritt, “A Movement Rises,” Open Canada (27 November 2015).