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.
Intergenerational Survivors of Genocide and Mass Atrocities: Lived Experiences of Knowledge Providers
1st Edition
Edited
By Saghar Shahidi-Birjandian, Sarah Seiselmyer-Snyder
July 03, 2026
This unique volume brings together intergenerational survivors of genocide and mass atrocities, who are actively engaged in producing knowledge related to their lived and inherited experiences, to share their stories. Centering survivor positionality as a source of epistemic insight rather than ...
Gaza, Genocide, and Academic Freedom
1st Edition
By David Moshman
May 14, 2026
This book analyzes Israeli military actions in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, offering a rigorous assessment through the lens of genocide studies. Drawing on established theoretical frameworks, the author demonstrates how these events align with recognized definitions of ...
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 ...
Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities
1st Edition
Edited
By Elazar Barkan, Constantin Goschler, James Waller
June 13, 2022
This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society to address the failure to connect historical dialogue with atrocity prevention discourse and provide insight into how conflict histories and historical memory act as dynamic forces, ...
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 ...
Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey Bachman
June 30, 2021
This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences. Through a systematic approach and comprehensive analysis, international and interdisciplinary contributors from the ...
Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Williams, Susanne Buckley-Zistel
August 14, 2020
As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetrator research by bringing together contributions from such diverse disciplines as political science, sociology, social psychology, history, anthropology...
Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account
1st Edition
By Kjell Anderson
February 07, 2019
Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse, this book offers an in-depth explanation for the perpetration of genocide. It is the first comparative criminological treatment of genocide drawn from original field research, ...