Genocide: Key Themes

The growth of scholarship on the pressing problem of genocide shows no sign of abating. This volume takes stock of Genocide Studies in all its multi-disciplinary diversity by adopting a thematic rather than case-study approach. Each chapter is by an expert in the field and comprises an up-to-date survey of emerging and established areas of enquiry while highlighting problems and making suggestions about avenues for future research. Each essay also has a select bibliography to facilitate further reading. Key themes include imperial violence and military contexts for genocide, predicting, preventing, and prosecuting genocide, gender, ideology, the state, memory, transitional justice, and ecocide. The volume also scrutinises the concept of genocide - its elasticity, limits, and problems. It does not provide a definition of genocide but rather encourages the reader to think critically about genocide as a conceptual and legal category concerned with identity-based violence against civilians.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction, Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses

1. Fit for Purpose? The Concept of Genocide and Civilian Destruction, A. Dirk Moses

2. Predicting Genocide, Hollie Nyseth Brehm

3. The Absence of Genocide in the Presence of Risk: When Genocide does not Occur, Deborah Mayersen and Stephen McLoughlin

4. Gender and Genocide, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

5. Ideology and Genocide, Jonathan Leader Maynard

6. The State and Genocide, Anton Weiss-Wendt

7. Empire and Genocide, Matthias Häussler, Andreas Stucki, and Lorenzo Veracini

8. War and Genocide, Michelle Moyd

9. Memory and Genocide, Dan Stone and Rebecca Jinks

10. Armed intervention in Genocide, Alex Bellamy and Stephen McLoughlin

11. Genocide and the Politics of Punishment, Donald Bloxham and Devin O. Pendas

12. Genocide and the Limits of Transitional Justice, Rachel Kerr

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