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)
- Carpenter, C, Beyond 'Gendercide': Incorporating Gender into Comparative Genocide Studies, Part of: The international journal of human rights, vol. 6, no. 4, 2002, p. 77–101Compulsory
- Dadrian, V, The Comparative Aspect of Armenian and Jewish Cases of Genocide, Part of: Is the Holocaust unique?: perspectives on comparative genocide, Boulder, Colo., Westview, 1996, p. 101–136Compulsory
- De Figueiredo, R J P; Weingast, B R, The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Violence, Part of: Civil wars, insecurity, and intervention, New York, Columbia University Press, 1999, p. 261–302Compulsory
- Dulić, T, Mass Killing in the Independent State of Croatia: A Case for Comparative Research, Part of: Genocide: critical concepts in historical studies, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, p. 342–372Compulsory
- Green, D P; Seher, R L, What Role Does Prejudice Play in Ethnic Conflict?, Part of: Annual review of political science., 2003, p. 509–531Compulsory
- Hancock, I, Responses to the Porrajmos: The Romani Holocaust, Part of: Is the Holocaust unique?: perspectives on comparative genocide, Boulder, Colo., Westview, 1996, p. 39–64Compulsory
- Jones, A, Gendercide and Genocide in Rwanda, Part of: Journal of genocide research., 2002, p. 65–94Compulsory
- Jones, A, Problems of Genocide-gendercide Studies and Future Agendas: A Comparative Approach, Part of: Journal of genocide research., 2002, p. 127–135Compulsory
- Kalyvas, Stathis N., The logic of violence in civil war, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006Compulsory (pp. 32–209)
- Katz, S T, The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension, Part of: Is the Holocaust unique?: perspectives on comparative genocide, Boulder, Colo., Westview, 1996, p. 19–38Compulsory
- Levene, M, Continuity and Discontinuity in the Historical Record, Part of: Genocide: critical concepts in historical studies, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, p. 220–285Compulsory
- Mann, Michael, The dark side of democracy: explaining ethnic cleansing., New York, Cambridge University PressCompulsory (p 1–69)
- Mettraux, Guénaël, International crimes and the ad hoc tribunals, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005Compulsory (p 316–340)
- Midlarsky, Manus I., The killing trap: genocide in the twentieth century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005Compulsory (p 43–110)
- Naimark, Norman M., Fires of hatred: ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2001Compulsory
- Posen, B R, The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict, Part of: Genocide: critical concepts in historical studies, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, p. 367–386Compulsory
- Roe, P, The Intrastate Security Dilemma: Ethnic Conflict as a 'Tragedy'?, Part of: Journal of peace research, 1999, p. 183–202Compulsory
- Rummel, R J, Democracy, Power, Genocide, and Mass Murder, Part of: The journal of conflict resolution., 1995, p. 3–26Compulsory
- Schabas, William A., Genocide in international law: the crimes of crimes, Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, 2000Compulsory (p 172–306)
- Semelin, Jacques, Purify and destroy: the political uses of massacre and genocide, London, Hurst & Co., 2007Compulsory (pp. 9–51)
- Stein, S, Geno- and Other Cides: A Cautionary Note on Knowledge Accumulation, Part of: Journal of genocide research., 2002, p. 39–63Compulsory
- 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)
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