ABSTRACT

The Scourge of Genocide collects essays, reviews, and reportage on the subjects of genocide and crimes against humanity by Adam Jones, recently selected as one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide." The volume includes a number of previously-unpublished essays, and explores a range of debates and approaches in comparative genocide studies, such as:

  • Genocide, pedagogy, and visual representation.
  • Gender and "gendercide."
  • The role of media and communications in genocide.
  • The historiography of genocide studies.
  • "Subaltern genocide," or genocides by the oppressed.
  • Strategies of genocide prevention and intervention.

Covering a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives, as well as case studies from the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Guatemala, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine, this book is essential reading for all scholars and students of genocide studies, political violence, and international relations.

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

Diffusing genocide studies, defusing genocides 1

part I|215 pages

Theory

chapter 2|13 pages

Genocide and crimes against humanity 1

chapter 3|30 pages

Encompassing genocide 1

chapter 4|17 pages

Genocide as political violence 1

chapter 5|15 pages

The ethics of genocide 1

chapter 6|22 pages

Communicating genocide

Destructive and constructive uses of communication in modern mass killing 1

chapter 7|14 pages

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Media and security after Dayton 1

chapter 8|16 pages

Gender, genocide, and mass violence 1

chapter 9|9 pages

Imagi(ni)ng gender and conflict 1

chapter 11|21 pages

Subaltern genocide

Genocides by the oppressed 1

chapter 12|19 pages

“When the rabbit's got the gun”

Subaltern genocide and the genocidal continuum 1

chapter 13|19 pages

Genocide and structural violence

Charting the terrain 1

part II|133 pages

Practice

chapter 14|10 pages

Hatred, vengeance, destruction 1

chapter 15|5 pages

Witch-hunts and genocide 1

chapter 16|4 pages

Genocide in whispers 1

chapter 17|4 pages

Holocaust and memory 1

chapter 18|9 pages

Goldhagen's Worse than War 1

chapter 19|9 pages

India 1947

Partition and genocide 1

chapter 20|6 pages

The green fields of Antioquia (1994) 1

chapter 21|9 pages

Guatemala

The human-rights hoax (1987) 1

chapter 22|23 pages

Springtime in Palestine (1989) 1

chapter 23|11 pages

Policy and atrocity

The US and Hussein's Iraq, 1979–2003 1

chapter 25|4 pages

The media and Iraq 1

chapter 26|14 pages

Denying Rwanda