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In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. These crises confound definition and label, but now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future
List of contents
Introduction: Charting Pathways Ahead for Genocide Studies
JEFFREY S. BACHMAN
1 The Need for Education about the Holocaust and Genocide in the Twenty-First Century
SARA E. BROWN
Part I Evolving and Emerging Forms and Tools of Genocide
2 The New Prominence of Alternative Forms of Genocidal Violence
ESTHER BRITO
3 Genocide, “Destitucide,” and the COVID-19 Pandemic
ADAM JONES
4 Resource-Induced Mass Atrocity: Famine as Genocide in the Era of Climate Change
ELISABETH HOPE MURRAY
5 Genocide in the Digital Era
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Part II Agency, Human–Nonhuman Relations, Social Being, and Identity
6 Weapons, Agency, and Genocide
BENJAMIN MEICHES
7 “We Are Our Mountains”: Pathways toward a Post-anthropocentric Genocide Studies
ANDREW WOOLFORD AND WANDA JUNE
8 Ecocidio and Genocidas: Anthropological Reflections on Existence and Extermination in Latin America
EVA VAN ROEKEL
9 Reentry and Reintegration Following Genocide: Emerging Findings from Post-1994 Rwanda
HOLLIE NYSE TH NZI TAT IRA AND JAMIE D. WISE
Part III Genocide Studies and Permanent Security
10 Accounting for Permanent Security: The Light and Shadow of Transitional Justice
LAUREN MARIE BALASCO
11 Permanent Security: Unsettling Genocide Studies
JEFFREY S. BACHMAN
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
JEFFREY S. BACHMAN is an associate professor at American University's School of International Service. He is the author of
The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and
The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the Relationship and the editor of
Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations.
Summary
In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. These crises confound definition and label, but now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future
