Theoretical Approaches to Genocide and Mass Violence
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HG009
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Bauer, Yehuda, Rethinking the Holocaust, New Haven, Yale University Press, cop. 2001Compulsory (pp. 68–92)
- Bauman, Zygmunt, Modernity and the holocaust, 1. pbk ed., Cambridge, Polity, 1991Compulsory (pp. 31–116)
- Charny, Israel, Toward a Generic Definition of Genocide., Part of: Genocide: conceptual and historical dimensions, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, c1994, p. 64–93Compulsory
- Civil wars, insecurity, and intervention, New York, Columbia University Press, 1999Compulsory (pp. 261–302)
- Is the Holocaust unique?: perspectives on comparative genocide, Boulder, Colo., Westview, 1996Compulsory (Articles by Dadrian, Katz and Hancock.)
- Journal of genocide research.Compulsory (No. 4 (2002); Articles by Jones (2) and Stein.)
- Kalyvas, Stathis N., The logic of violence in civil war, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006Compulsory (pp. 32–209)
- Kress, C., The Crime of Genocide under International Law, Part of: International Criminal Law Review, no. 6, 2006, p. 461–502Compulsory
- Mann, Michael, The dark side of democracy :b explaining ethnic cleansing, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005Compulsory (pp. 1–69)
- Mettraux, Guénaël, International crimes and the ad hoc tribunals, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005Compulsory (pp. 316–340.)
- Midlarsky, Manus I., The killing trap: genocide in the twentieth century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005Compulsory (pp. 8–52)
- Moses, A. Dirk., Genocide: critical concepts in historical studies, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010Compulsory (Articles by Levene, Posen, Schabas.)
- Naimark, Norman M., Fires of hatred: ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2001Compulsory (pp. 1–16)
- Semelin, Jacques, Purify and destroy: the political uses of massacre and genocide, London, Hurst & Co., 2007Compulsory (pp. 9–51)
- Toft, Monica Duffy, The geography of ethnic violence: identity, interests, and the indivisibility of territory, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2003Compulsory (pp. 1–44)
- Valentino, Benjamin A., Final solutions: mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2004Compulsory (pp. 9–29; 66–90.)
- Weitz, Eric D., A century of genocide: utopias of race and nation, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, cop. 2003Compulsory (pp. 8–52)
* Compulsory