{"title":"After 1776: Native Nations, Settler Colonialism, and the Meaning of America","authors":"Jeffrey Ostler, K. Jacoby","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968143","url":null,"abstract":"On 2 November 2020, just hours before a slim majority of Americans rejected his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing a “1776 Commission” designed to counter “one-sided an...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"321 - 336"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49376342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fifth International Crime: Reflections on the Definition of “Ecocide”","authors":"L. Minkova","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1964688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1964688","url":null,"abstract":"International criminal law has increasingly been seen as one of the tools that could be used to address environmental harm. In June 2021 a panel of independent experts made a major step in that dir...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"62 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47672601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memoriam: Eric Weitz","authors":"Sarah K. Danielsson","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1958735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1958735","url":null,"abstract":"On 1 July 2021, Eric Weitz passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 68 years old. The fields of genocide studies and human rights have lost one of its most influential thinkers and prolific a...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"148 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14623528.2021.1958735","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46625343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hollie Nyseth Brehm, Nicole Fox, Courtney DeRoche, Jamie D. Wise
{"title":"In the Aftermath: The Post-Conflict Social and Economic Consequences of Rescue During Genocide","authors":"Hollie Nyseth Brehm, Nicole Fox, Courtney DeRoche, Jamie D. Wise","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1955445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1955445","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, some individuals risked their lives to save others. While much research has analyzed why people rescue during genocide, no studies have systematically analyzed the post-conflict consequences of engaging in such actions. This article begins to fill this gap by treating rescue as a case of behavioural boundary crossing, or individual defection from the expectations of a behavioral script. We rely upon 45 in-depth interviews with Rwandan Hutu who rescued Tutsi and who also did not participate in genocidal violence. Our findings indicate that rescue may be tied to both positive and negative social and economic consequences, from gifts and public recognition to stigma and threats. We suggest that many of these consequences result from the fact that Hutu who rescued went against the expectations of their group. As the positive consequences were often driven by Tutsi and the negative consequences were driven by Hutu, we also suggest that such consequences are tied to fault lines between groups in Rwandan society. Our work consequently aligns with and extends previous research finding that the genocide produced, reinforced, and augmented social cleavages in Rwanda.","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"24 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14623528.2021.1955445","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48061445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Rubbished World: White Supremacy’s Complicated Love Affair with Garbage","authors":"Anne Berg","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1950289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1950289","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article I offer a comparative analysis of the relationship between waste and large-scale social crises. Drawing on the history of extremes, the history of Nazi Germany to be precise, I argue that garbage itself functions as a language of crisis that translates seemingly insurmountable social problems into questions of cleanup, upkeep and order. The encroachment of waste often inspires crisis rhetoric, yet it is almost always a symptom of larger, systemic malfunctions such as infrastructural breakdowns, political impasses, social disruptions, natural catastrophe, war or pandemics. In the context of the Nazi race war, an obsession with waste and recycling promised to clean up the mess of war, while hiding the ways in which waste management itself was central to the practices of both war and genocide. My discussion of the Nazi waste regime thus provides a frame for rethinking our own current crisis and its origins in the late 1960s through the prism of the “garbage crisis.”","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"46 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14623528.2021.1950289","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46520323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making (In?)Visible: Selectivity, Visibility and Authenticity in Cambodia’s Sites of Atrocity","authors":"Cheryl Lawther, R. Killean, Lauren Dempster","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1950284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1950284","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines victim representation in former atrocity sites in Cambodia. It concentrates on Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek, two prominent sites for the detention and torture of suspected enemies of the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime and the subsequent creation of mass graves. These sites of trauma, memory, and transitional justice are inextricably linked to the experiences of victims. Yet, the voice of victims, their visibility, and authentic representations of the past are not always centred in Cambodia’s atrocity sites. Drawing on empirical fieldwork in Cambodia and an interdisciplinary literature, this article interrogates the intersections between selectivity, visibility, and authenticity in sites of atrocity associated with the Cambodian genocide. As this paper demonstrates, engaging with these themes of selectivity, visibility, and authenticity, and by extension issues of, for example, “who” is recognized as a victim, “how” responsibility for past horrors is represented, “which” sites become tourist facing attractions, and “why” certain narratives of the past are prioritized, is essential to recognizing the rights, humanity, and dignity of victims and survivors.","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"45 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14623528.2021.1950284","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45016060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Power, Aboriginal Genocide, and the Politics of Identity","authors":"Sally Ghattas","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1950288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1950288","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1970, five Indigenous Australians petitioned the United Nations on behalf of the Aborigines Advancement League, charging the Australian Government with “genocide.” Rather than assessing the applicability of “genocide,” as a scholarly and legal concept, to Indigenous history, this article explores how these historical agents not only conceived of genocide, but how and why it was employed at this crucial moment in Aboriginal activist history. Taking the notion of discursive slippage as a source of generative change, it argues that the AAL’s claim to genocide was dependant on the rise of Aboriginal identity politics at the turn of the 1970s. The article suggests that this slippage between Indigenous identity politics and genocide generated notions of a collective psychological consciousness that encouraged the growth of radical Aboriginal politics. Methodologically, it treats these petitioners – and the range of activists and thinkers who are drawn into the web of our analysis – as intellectuals who conceived of genocide in a profoundly radical way to appeal to the global language of atrocity at the UN. The article draws primarily on archival material from the Office of Aboriginal Affairs, complemented by files from the Australian Security Intelligence Organization. Both archives have preserved material authored by the activists themselves, while opening a window into the state’s perception of them and the knowledge that they produced. The article also draws on concurrent writing and publishing, authored and published by Aboriginal peoples, to access their thinking in the flourishing intellectual context in which Aboriginal genocide discourse emerged. Reframing the traditional source base of intellectual history, this article positions the 1970 utterance of genocide as a profound insight into an emergent Indigenous intellectual history and global discourse around rights to demonstrate the rich Aboriginal stories and discourses held in colonial archives.","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14623528.2021.1950288","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47402382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Ulrike Capdepón, A. Dirk Moses","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2020.1847851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2020.1847851","url":null,"abstract":"A renewed interest in literature is gradually emerging in the foreign language curriculum as demonstrated in recent studies (e.g. Hall, 2015; Matos, 2012; Paran, 2010; Sell, 2005). The surge of research groups and new online tools on this topic, such as the Litinclass website (https://litinclass.wordpress.com/, Almeida, Puig, & Duarte, 2016) or the Literature in Language Learning and Teaching Research Network (https://lilltresearch.net/home/, Paran & Kirchhoff, 2019) testifies to the growing relevance of this pedagogical approach to the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Both recent scholarship and class practice provide evidence that reading literary texts helps students to develop their language skills, as “[l]iterature exposes students to complex themes and fresh, unexpected uses of language” (Lazar, 1993, p. 15). Moreover, “[a]t present, students who are extensive travellers demand a different approach to the cultural dimension” (Matos, 2012. p. 7); the study of literature in the language classroom provides these students with the intercultural skills that are increasingly necessary in the contemporary globalised world. As educators, we can employ the study of literature to prepare students for dealing with the complexity of a globalised world long after graduation.","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"23 1","pages":"371 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14623528.2020.1847851","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44441918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Palestine Between German Memory Politics and (De-)Colonial Thought","authors":"Anonymous","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2020.1847852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2020.1847852","url":null,"abstract":"The “Mbembe fiasco” started when Felix Klein attacked the Cameroonian philosopher and postcolonial scholar Achille Mbembe, and called for him to be disinvited from the 2020 Ruhrtriennale in Bochum. Klein acted in his federal government capacity as Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Antisemitism. He referenced the 2015 anti-BDS resolution of the German Bundestag when he argued that Mbembe must be forbidden from participating because of his supposed relativization of the Holocaust and denial of the State of Israel to exist (Existenzrecht). Klein centred his criticism on Mbembe’s 2016 essay “The Society of Enmity” and the foreword he wrote for the 2015 publication Apartheid Israel: The Politics of Analogy. The commissioner pointed to Mbembe’s assertations that the colonial occupation of Palestine was worse, indeed “far more lethal” than Apartheid South Africa, and that the occupation of Palestine was the “biggest moral scandal of our times.” Mbembe pointed to the “most dehumanizing ordeals,” the Palestinian experiences of “carnage, destruction and incremental extermination” caused by Israel, and called for its global isolation until it respected international law. As might be expected, Mbembe rejected the claims of antisemitism or of trivializing the Shoah. While many scholars wrote in Mbembe’s defence, none of the German-language articles defended Mbembe’s thoughts on the colonial occupation of Palestine as the “most accomplished form of necropower,” the colonial management of life and death, and “the generalized instrumentalization of human existence and the material","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"23 1","pages":"374 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14623528.2020.1847852","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48236860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}