Perpetrator Studies Network

Books

Early Holocaust Memory in Sweden: Archives, Testimonies and Reflections

Edited by Johannes Heuman and Pontus Rudberg. This book investigates the memory of the Holocaust in Sweden and concentrates on early initiatives to document and disseminate information about the genocide during the late 1940s until the early 1960s. As the first collection of testimonies and efforts to acknowledge the Holocaust contributed to historical research, judicial…

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Teaching about Genocide

Advice and Suggestions from Professors, High School Teachers, and Staff Developers. (Volume 3) Edited by Samuel Totten. Teaching about Genocide presents the insights, advice, and suggestions of secondary-level teachers and professors, in relation to teaching about various facets of genocide. The contributions range from basic concerns when teaching about genocide to a discussion about why…

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The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide

By Timothy Williams. Why do people participate in genocide? The Complexity of Evil responds to this fundamental question by drawing on political science, sociology, criminology, anthropology, social psychology, and history to develop a model which can explain perpetration across various different cases. Focusing in particular on the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in…

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Researching Perpetrators of Genocide

Edited by Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee. Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have been identified as perpetrators of genocide. This can include overcoming biases that often accompany research on perpetrators; conceptualizing, identifying, and recruiting research subjects; risk mitigation and negotiating access in…

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Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death”

By David. G. Marwell. Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided by the role he has assumed in works of popular culture, Mengele has come to symbolize the Holocaust itself as well as the failure of justice…

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The Tokyo Tribunal: Perspectives on Law, History and Memory

Edited by Viviane E. Dittrich, Kerstin von Lingen, Philipp Osten and Jolana Makroivá. This book concerns the ‘International Military Tribunal for the Far East’ (IMTFE), held in Tokyo from May 1946 to November 1948. It was a landmark event in the development of modern international criminal law. The trial in Tokyo was a complex undertaking…

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Former Guerrillas in Mozambique

By Nikkie Wiegink. A sensitive ethnography of former Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) combatants “With its in-depth ethnographic engagement, its synthesis of recent and classic studies of veterans, and its sophisticated use of the concept of the social navigation of persons through dynamic environments, Former Guerrillas in Mozambique is an important contribution to peace and conflict studies, political…

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Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored

By Eve Monique Zucker and David J. Simon. This volume explores the shifting tides of how political violence is memorialized in today’s decentralized, digital era. The book enhances our understanding of how the digital turn is changing the ways that we remember, interpret, and memorialize the past. It also raises practical and ethical questions of…

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German Women’s Life Writing and the Holocaust: Complicity and Gender in the Second World War

By Elisabeth Kimmer. This important study examines women’s life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, and autobiographically inspired fiction. Through a historical and literary study of the complex relationship between gender, genocide, and female agency, the analyzes correct androcentric views of the Second World War and seek…

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The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East

By Laura Robson. The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, an ever more highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on…

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