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This edited volume studies the after-effects of genocide, exploring the ways in which societies are shaped by a history of such extreme violence. Contributions from a variety of perspectives, including law, political science, sociology, and ethnography, explore previously overlooked themes and cases to reassess existing assumptions in the field.
List of contents
- 1: Klejda Mulaj: Introduction. Postgenocide: Living with Permutations of Genocide Harms
- Part I: The Law and Responsibility for Genocide
- 2: Kevin Aquilina: Challenges to Criminalising State Responsibility for Genocide
- 3: Rajika L. Shah: The Role of Law in Enabling Postgenocide Recovery: Assessing the Importance of Property Restitution
- 4: Christopher Soler: Postgenocide Justice? Assessing the Prosecution and Punishment of Genocide by Internationalized Courts and Tribunals
- 5: Jobair Alam: Responsibility to Protect in International Criminal Law: The Case of the Genocide against the Rohingya
- Part II: Genocide Denial and Remembrance
- 6: Tatevik Mnatsakanyan: Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Denial: The Armenian Genocide, Generative Denials, and Postgenocide Politics in Contemporary Turkey
- 7: Klejda Mulaj: Constructions of Genocide Denial and Remembrance: Fractured National Identity in Postgenocide Bosnia
- 8: Andrew Wallis: Politics of Inter/National Denial of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
- Part III: Postgenocide Identities, Memory, and Ir/reconciliation
- 9: Martine Louise Hawkes: Memory, Identity, and Possession: Personal Objects from Genocide in Galleries, Museums, and Archives
- 10: Marcia Esparza: Indigeneity, Memory, and Postgenocide in Guatemala: The Stillness Power of Local Archives
- 11: Maureen S. Hiebert: Rhetorical versus Substantive Reconciliation After Cultural Genocide in Canada
- 12: Christopher P. Davey: Conclusion. Further Agendas for Postgenocide Research
About the author
Klejda Mulaj studies political violence with particular reference to war and mass atrocity. Her latest published work dwells on effects of mass violence at the intersection between war and peace; nationalism; state-formation; and postconflict rebuilding. She is author of Politics of Ethnic Cleansing (2008); editor and author of Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics (2010); and author of 25 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. She has taught at university level since 2001 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She obtained her PhD in International Relations from London School of Economics and Political Science in 2004.
Summary
This edited volume studies the after-effects of genocide, exploring the ways in which societies are shaped by a history of such extreme violence. Contributions from a variety of perspectives, including law, political science, sociology, and ethnography, explore previously overlooked themes and cases to reassess existing assumptions in the field.
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Too often books on genocide and mass atrocity studies suffer the defect of being centred in one discipline and focused on the causes or events of the genocide. This book does not. It is very usefully interdisciplinary and suitably examines the impacts, effects, and legacies of massive human rights abuses in several contexts. It explores the efficacy of a range of responses, legal and others, to massive human rights abuses. There is tremendous value to this book for readers from a range of disciplines who are interested in going beyond what the literature usually offers.
