Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
About the Book Series
The Routledge Series in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity publishes cutting-edge research and reflections on these urgently contemporary topics. While focusing on political-historical approaches to genocide and other mass crimes, the series is open to diverse contributions from the social sciences, humanities, law, and beyond. Proposals for both sole-authored and edited volumes are welcome.
Genocide in the Modern Age: State-Society Relations in the Making of Mass Political Violence
1st Edition
By Zachary A. Karazsia
March 12, 2025
This book explores why some episodes of mass political violence and genocide are so much deadlier than others and under what conditions perpetrators in government and society opt for brutality as a means of accomplishing their goals. Introducing the new concept of "mass political violence" to ...
Genocide Culture: Cultural Habitus, Ethnic Engineering and Religious Doxa
1st Edition
By Kaziwa Salih
October 15, 2024
This book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide through a critical lens, offering an historiography of Iraq and colonialism. Divided into two parts, the first part conceptualizes the coined term “genocide culture” and examines dominant Iraqi cultural practices that...
Jasenovac Concentration Camp: An Unfinished Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Andriana Kužnar, Stipe Odak, Danijela Lucić
October 07, 2024
This book presents state-of-the-art discussions around the concentration camp Jasenovac. Initially one of the largest camps of the Second World War, Jasenovac became a symbol of supra-national unity during the Yugoslav period and in the 1990s re-emerged as a contested symbol of narrational ...
In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory within Rwanda
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew Kane, Tawia Ansah
August 26, 2024
This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda. It explores the various strategies the state, civil society, and individuals have employed to come to terms with their past and shape their future. The main ...
From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens
1st Edition
By Melanie O'Brien
May 27, 2024
From Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth field research from the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, this book demonstrates that a pattern of specific ...
A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention
1st Edition
By Kurt Mundorff
April 29, 2022
This book critiques the dominant physical and biological interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea of "culture" is central to properly understanding the crime of genocide. Using Raphael Lemkin’s personal papers, archival materials from the State Department and the UN, as ...
Preventing Mass Atrocities: Policies and Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Harff, Ted Robert Gurr
September 04, 2018
What can be done to warn about and organize political action to prevent genocide and mass atrocities? The international contributors to this volume are either experts or practitioners, often both, who have contributed in substantial ways to analyzing high risk situations, recommending preventive ...
The Structural Prevention of Mass Atrocities: Understanding Risk and Resilience
1st Edition
By Stephen McLoughlin
December 02, 2016
This book offers a different approach to the structural prevention of mass atrocities. It investigates the conditions that enable vulnerable countries to prevent the perpetration of such violence. Structural prevention is commonly framed as the identifying and ameliorating of the ‘root causes’ of...