A Cultural History of Genocide in the Modern World

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-46978-5 (ISBN)

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The cry of “never again” reverberated around the world in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Yet despite the unprecedented horrors of the Shoah, and the subsequent creation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the frequency of genocide intensified in the post-Holocaust period. Since 1945 there have been genocides or mass killings in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), East Timor, Indonesia, Guatemala, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, Iraq, and elsewhere.
This volume examines the cultural history of genocide in the modern world. It focuses on the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day. The volume examines not only the many genocides that have occurred during this period, but the beliefs and actions that led to them, the local and international responses, and the changing way in which genocide has been understood. It chronicles key developments, including the creation of international legal and political mechanisms to address genocide. It also considers creative and artistic responses to genocide, and how genocide is remembered and memorialized in the modern world. Finally, it examines the issue of genocide prevention, and the prospects for a more positive future.

Deborah Mayersen is Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Social Transformation Research at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is the author of On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Re-examined (2014). She is also the editor of The United Nations and Genocide (2016) and the co-editor, along with Annie Pohlman, of Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia (2013).

List of Illustrations
General Editor’s Preface, Paul R. Bartrop
Introduction, Deborah Mayersen
1. Causes, Stephen McLoughlin
2. Motivations and Justifications, Maureen S. Hiebert
3. Perpetrators, Kjell Anderson
4. Victims, Deborah Mayersen
5. Responses, Carrie Booth Walling
6. Consequences, Wendy Lambourne
7. Representations, Jane M. Gangi
8. Memory, Bridget Conley
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-46978-5 / 1350469785
ISBN-13	978-1-350-46978-5 / 9781350469785
Zustand	Neuware