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Advancing Genocide Studies: Personal Accounts and Insights from Scholars in the Field book cover

1st Edition

Advancing Genocide Studies Personal Accounts and Insights from Scholars in the Field

By Samuel Totten Copyright 2015
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge
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Advancing Genocide Studies follows in the footsteps of the editor's earlier volume, Pioneers of Genocide Studies . Here a new generation of scholars presents personal essays that reveal their motivation to study genocide, the passion that drives them to continue its study, their primary scholarly interests and efforts, and their perspective on the field as it currently stands. The... Read more

Introduction
Samuel Totten

Part I Historians and Sociologists

1 To Study the Armenian Genocide in Turkey: Caught between a Conspiracy of Silence and Murderous Hatred
Taner Akcam

2 The Destruction of the Other as the Validation of the Self
Uur umit ungo;r

Part II Political Scientists

3 Seized of Sorrow
Adam Jones

4 From Political Scientist to Genocide Studies Scholar and Back Again
Maureen S. Hiebert

Part III Criminology and International Human Rights Law

5 Understanding the Unthinkable
Kjell Anderson

Part IV Criminologist

6 A Scholar of Genocide and Violence
Alex Alvarez

Part V Philosopher

7 Out of the Shadow of War and Genocide
Henry C. Theriault

Part VI Educator

8 My Personal Story as It Relates to Being a Scholar of Genocide Studies
Yair Auron

Part VII Independent Researchers

9 A Quest for Genocide Justice in Cambodia
Craig Etcheson

10 A Belated Cause
Gerald Caplan

11 A Matter of Conscience: Part II
Samuel Totten

Selected Bibliography: Works by Contributors

Index

Biography

Samuel Totten

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