Perpetrator Studies Network

Bibliography

“The Question of the Perpetrator in Soviet History” Lynne Viola - 2017

The article explores the question of the perpetrator in Stalin’s Soviet Union.

“The Raiding Dutchmen: Colonial Stereotypes, Identity and Islam in Indonesian B-movies” by Eric Sasono - 2023

Article on the representation of Dutch colonialism in 70-80s Indonesian B-movies

“Transference, Obedience, and the Logic of Emancipation: Psychoanalytic Lessons from the ‘Third Wave’” by Antti Saari - 2020

Article on education of authority, obedience, and emancipation.

“Traumatic Unrepresentability of Colonial Perpetrators in E.M Foster’s A Passage to India and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” by Alaa Kayed Abu-Rumman & Deema Ammari - 2022

Article on the representation of colonial perpetrator trauma in two novels

“We the Soldiers: Player Complicity and Ethical Gameplay in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” by Miguel Sicart - 2016

Chapter looking at player complicity in video games.

1968 and the Participation of Women Fighters During the Lebanese Civil War - 2018

What impact did 1968 have on female participation in the Lebanese civil war?

Abuse by Authority: The Hidden Harm of Illegal Orders - 2022

A reframing of illegal orders as an abuse by superior against subordinate.

Achugar, Mariana. What we remember: The Construction of Memory in Military Discourse - 2008

Uruguayan military discourse about human rights violations in the dictatorship

Adams, Jenni. Reading (as) Violence in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones - 2011

The effect of perpetrator fiction on readers' ethical sensibilities

Adorno, T.W. et al. The Authoritarian Personality - 1950

Argues that a certain personality type makes people susceptible to fascism