1st Edition

Sites of Genocide

By Adam Jones Copyright 2022
304 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

"Genocide" may be the most powerful word in the English language. What is the significance and relevance of this formative concept today? In an extraordinarily wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews, Adam Jones, one of the world's leading genocide scholars, explores the uses and controversies surrounding the term that Raphael Lemkin coined during the Second World War to describe... Read more

Introduction: Seized of Sorrow

Part 1: History and Culture

  1. Genocide and Global/World History: Reflections
  2. Genocide and Holocaust
  3. Motivations and Justifications for Genocide in the Long Nineteenth Century

  4. Genocide and the West
  5. Religion, Genocide, and Islamic State
  6. The Bangladeshi Genocide in Comparative Perspective
  7. The Rohingya: Genocide in Myanmar?
  8. Challenges of Genocide Intervention
  9. Chomsky and Genocide
  10. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden Precedents
  11. Denying Rwanda, Denying Congo
  12. Part 2: Gendering Genocide

  13. Gender, Genocide, and Gendercide
  14. Gendering Rwanda: Genocide and Post-Genocide
  15. Masculinities and Vulnerabilities in the Rwandan and Congolese Genocides
  16. Sexual Violence against Males in War and Genocide: Advances, Obstacles, Challenges
  17. Interview by Noah Berlatsky
  18. Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Men and Boys
  19. Interview by Rosanna Deerchild on CBC Unreserved

Coda: What Leads to Genocide?

Biography

Adam Jones, PhD is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, Canada. He is the author of Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (Routledge), a widely used textbook in the field of comparative genocide studies. He is the author or editor of over a dozen other books, mostly on genocide, gender, and crimes against humanity. Jones was selected as one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide" for the book volume of that title (Routledge, 2010). He has worked as an expert consultant with the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, helping to implement conflict-prevention seminars in the Balkans, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere.