Perpetrator Studies Network

Bibliography

Le Bourhis, Eric and Irina Tcherneva. Risks and Results of Citizens’ Commitments. - 2022

Formation of Latvian opinion influenced course of postwar trial.

Le Bourhis, Eric, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.). Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes. - 2022

Eastern European perpetrator trials and public consciousness post-1944.

Le Guin, Ursula. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” - 1973

Short story about a city whose prosperity depends on the misery of one child.

Leebaw, Bronwyn Anne. “The arts of refusal: tragic unreconciliation, pariah humour, and haunting laughter” - 2019

Examines strategies for challenging emotional indifference to political violence

Leigh A. Payne, Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence - 2008

An analysis of confessional performances by state perpetrators in 4 countries.

Levene, Mark. “From Past to Future: Prospects for Genocide and Its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century”. - 2012

Discussion of the impact of climate change on possible scenarios of genocide

Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved - 1986

Book of essays on Holocaust; famous discussion of gray zone

Lindeperg, Sylvie. The Nuremberg Trials – To Stage or Not to Stage. - 2022

US Nuremberg team’s mediatized 'staging' for domestic information.

Literature and Complicity; Then and Now by Adam Kelly and Will Norman - 2019

Overview of the connections between literature, complicity and capitalism.

Littell, Jonathan. The Kindly Ones [Les Bienveillantes] - 2006

Fictional autobiography by a non-repentant SS officer, based on historical facts