Bibliography of genocide studies explained
This is a select annotated bibliography of scholarly English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the subject of genocide studies; for bibliographies of genocidal acts or events, please see the See also section for individual articles. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included for items related to the development of genocide studies. Book entries may have references to journal articles and reviews as annotations. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further Reading for several book and chapter-length bibliographies. The External links section contains entries for publicly available materials on the development of genocide studies.
Overview
Inclusion criteriaThis bibliography is about the subject of genocide studies; works about the history of acts of genocide are not included. Included works should either be published by an academic or notable publisher, or be authored by an independent notable subject matter expert and have reviews in significant independent scholarly journals. This bibliography specifically excludes self-published works; magazines and newspaper articles; works produced as propaganda; and works produced by non-academic government entities.
Formatting and citation styleThis bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates; references to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to the subject of genocide are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.
If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.
When listing book titles with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.
General surveys
- Book: Davidson, Lawrence . Cultural Genocide . 2012 . Rutgers University Press . j.ctt5hj5jx . 978-0-8135-5243-9.
- Jones, Adam. (2016). Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (3rd edition). Routledge.
- Shelton D. (2005). Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity. Thomson Gale.
- Totten, Samuel. Bartrop, Paul R, Jacobs, Steven L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide. Westport Conn: Greenwood Press.
- Üngör, U. Ü. (Ed.). (2016). Genocide. Amsterdam University Press.[1]
Topical works
- Abed . Mohammed . 2015 . The Concept of Genocide Reconsidered . Social Theory and Practice . 41 . 2 . 328–356 . 10.5840/soctheorpract201541218 . 24332284 . 0037-802X.
- Book: Akesson . Bree . From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home . Basso . Andrew R. . 2022 . Rutgers University Press . 978-1-9788-0272-8 . 10.2307/j.ctv2v55m4g . j.ctv2v55m4g . 251687537.
- Book: Destruction and Human Remains: Disposal and Concealment in Genocide and Mass Violence . 2014 . Manchester University Press . j.ctt1wn0s3n . 978-0-7190-9602-0 . Anstett . Élisabeth . Dreyfus . Jean-Marc. [2]
- Bachman, J. (2019). The United States and Genocide. Routledge.
- Bachman, J. (Ed.). (2019). Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations. Routledge.
- Book: Bachman, Jeffrey S. . The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect . 2022 . Rutgers University Press . 978-1-9788-2146-0 . 10.2307/j.ctv2x4kq0k . j.ctv2x4kq0k . 252523332.
- Book: Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators . 2018 . Indiana University Press . 978-0-253-03383-3 . Bemporad . Elissa . 10.2307/j.ctvgd2jm . j.ctvgd2jm . Warren . Joyce W..
- Benesch . Susan . 2004 . Inciting Genocide, Pleading Free Speech . World Policy Journal . 21 . 2 . 62–69 . 10.1215/07402775-2004-3001 . 40209919 . 0740-2775.
- Benvenuto . Jeff . Woolford . Andrew . 2015 . Canada and Colonial Genocide . Journal of Genocide Research . 17 . 4 . 373–390 . 10.1080/14623528.2015.1096580 . 1462-3528 . free.
- Brantlinger, P. (2003). Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930 (1st ed.). Cornell University Press.
- Campbell . Bradley . 2009 . Genocide as Social Control . Sociological Theory . 27 . 2 . 150–172 . 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2009.01341.x . 40376129 . 143902886 . 0735-2751.
- Campbell, B. (2015). The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology. University of Virginia Press.[3] [4]
- Card . Claudia . 2003 . Genocide and Social Death . Hypatia . 18 . 1 . 63–79 . 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00779.x . 3811037 . 143915632 . 0887-5367.
- Clarke, A. W. (2012). Rendition to Torture. Rutgers University Press.
- Book: Daar, Judith . The New Eugenics: Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies . 2017 . Yale University Press . j.ctt1kgqwrv . 978-0-300-13715-6. [5] [6]
- Der Matossian, Bedross (2023), ed. Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
- Feierstein, D., & Town, D. A. (2014). Defining the Concept of Genocide. In Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas (pp. 11–38). Rutgers University Press.
- Freeman . Michael . 1995 . Genocide, Civilization and Modernity . The British Journal of Sociology . 46 . 2 . 207–223 . 10.2307/591786 . 0007-1315 . 591786.
- Ginzberg, Eitan (2020) "Genocide and the Hispanic-American Dilemma," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 14: Iss. 2: 122-152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.14.2.1666 Available at: Genocide and the Hispanic-American Dilemma
- Book: Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition: A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory . 2016 . Verlag Barbara Budrich . 978-3-8474-0240-4 . Gobodo-Madikizela . Pumla . 1st . 10.2307/j.ctvdf03jc . j.ctvdf03jc.
- Hennebel, Ludovic, and Thomas Hochmann (eds), Genocide Denials and the Law (2011), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199738922.001.0001
- Hiebert, M. S. (2019). Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence: Society, Crisis, Identity. Routledge.
- Hinton, P. A. L. (Ed.). (2011). Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence. Rutgers University Press.
- Hitchcock, R. (Ed.). (2011). Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Bibliographic Review (1st ed.). Routledge.
- Horowitz, Irving Louis. (1980). Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power. New Brunswick N.J: Transaction Books.
- Hu . Alice C. . 2016 . 'Genocide' Taboo Why We're Afraid of the G-Word . Harvard International Review . 37 . 4 . 4–6 . 26445607 . 0739-1854.
- Kuper, Leo (1991). "When Denial Becomes Routine." Social Education 55(2):121–123.
- Karazsia . Zachary A. . 2018 . An Unfulfilled Promise: The Genocide Convention and the Obligation of Prevention . Journal of Strategic Security . 11 . 4 . 20–31 . 10.5038/1944-0472.11.4.1676 . 26627191 . 150577632 . 1944-0464. free .
- Kiernan, Ben. (2007). Blood and soil: A world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur. Yale University Press. .
- van Krieken . Robert . 2004 . Rethinking Cultural Genocide: Aboriginal Child Removal and Settler-Colonial State Formation . Oceania . 75 . 2 . 125–151 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2004.tb02873.x . 40331967 . 0029-8077.
- Kühne, T. (2010). Belonging and Genocide. Yale University Press.
- Mako . Shamiran . 2012 . Cultural Genocide and Key International Instruments: Framing the Indigenous Experience . International Journal on Minority and Group Rights . 19 . 2 . 175–194 . 10.1163/157181112X639078 . 24675651 . 1385-4879.
- Mayersen, D. (Ed.). (2016). The United Nations and Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Mcdonnell, Michael A. & Moses, A. Dirk (2005) Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas, Journal of Genocide Research, 7:4, 501–529,
- Melson . Robert . 1996 . Paradigms of Genocide: The Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Contemporary Mass Destructions . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 548 . 156–168 . 10.1177/0002716296548001012 . 1048550 . 144586524 . 0002-7162.
- Book: Monroe, Kristen Renwick . Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice . 2012 . Princeton University Press . j.ctt7rtff . 978-0-691-15143-4. [7]
- Book: Moses, Dirk A. . Genocide : Critical Concepts in Historical Studies . 2010 . Routledge . 978-0-415-49375-8 . Abingdon . 729828543 . 2023-03-17.
- Moses, A. Dirk (Ed.). (2008). Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History. Berghahn Books.[8] [9]
- Moses, A. Dirk, Joeden-Forgey, E. von, Feierstein, D., Frieze, D.-L., Nunpa, M., Richmond, W., Jones, A., Hinton, P. A. L., Travis, H., & Hegburg, K. (2013). Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory (A. L. Hinton, T. L. Pointe, & D. Irvin-Erickson, Eds.). Rutgers University Press.
- O'Brien, M. (2022). From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens. Routledge.
- Ostler, Jeffrey. (2019). Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgc629z
- Palmer, Alison (1998). Colonial and modern genocide: explanations and categories, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 21:1, pp. 89–115
- Book: Rafter, Nicole . The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide . 2016 . NYU Press . j.ctt1803ztk . 978-1-4798-5948-1. [10] [11]
- Book: Rechtman, Richard . Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries . 2021 . Fordham University Press . 978-0-8232-9788-7 . en . 10.1515/9780823297887 . j.ctv1zm2tct.
- Robben, Antonius C.G.M. and Alexander Laban Hinton (2023). Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side. Stanford: Stanford University Press. .
- Rummel . Rudolph J. . 1994 . Power, Genocide and Mass Murder . Journal of Peace Research . 31 . 1 . 1–10 . 10.1177/0022343394031001001 . 425578 . 109210378 . 0022-3433.
- Book: Sagall, Sabby . Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide . 2013 . Pluto Press . 978-0-7453-2653-5 . 10.2307/j.ctt183p6pr. j.ctt183p6pr .
- Sainati . Tatiana E. . Toward a Comparative Approach to the Crime of Genocide . 2012 . Duke Law Journal . 62 . 1 . 161–202 . 23268983 . 0012-7086.
- Book: Sartre, Jean-Paul . On genocide.: And a summary of the evidence and the judgments of the International War Crimes Tribunal . 1968 . Beacon Press . Boston . 5629332M . Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Smith, R. W. (2014). Genocide Denial and Prevention. Genocide Studies International, 8(1), 102–109.
- van Schaack, Beth (1997). "The Crime of Political Genocide: Repairing the Genocide Convention's Blind Spot". The Yale Law Journal. 106 (7): 2259–2291. . .
- Shaw . M. . 2011 . Britain and genocide: historical and contemporary parameters of national responsibility . Review of International Studies . en . 37 . 5 . 2417–2438 . 10.1017/S0260210510001245 . 0260-2105 . 145721044.
- Spencer . Philip . 2013 . Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism and the Problem of Genocide, Past and Present . History . 98 . 4 (332) . 606–622 . 10.1111/1468-229X.12027 . 24429510 . 0018-2648.
- Stannard, David (1992). American holocaust : the conquest of the new world. Oxford University Press US.
- Stannard, David (1996). "Uniqueness as Denial: The Politics of Genocide Scholarship", published in Is the Holocaust Unique? edited by Alan S. Rosenbaum. Westview Press. Boulder, Colorado.
- Staub, E. (1992). The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence (Rev. ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Book: Straus, Scott . Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa . 2015 . Cornell University Press . 978-0-8014-5332-8 . 1st . 10.7591/j.ctt20fw633 . [12] [13] [14]
- Theriault . Henry C. . Genocidal Mutation and the Challenge of Definition . 2010 . Metaphilosophy . 41 . 4 . 481–524 . 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2010.01658.x . 24439632 . 0026-1068.
- Thornton, Russell. (1987). American Indian holocaust and survival: a population history since 1492 (1st ed.). University of Oklahoma Press.
- Totten, S., Parsons, W. S., & Charny, I. W. (1994). Genocide in the twentieth century: Critical essays and eyewitness accounts. New York: Garland.
- Valentino, B. A. (2013). Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century. Cornell University Press.
- Weiss-Wendt, A., & Irvin-Erickson, D. (2018). A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War. Rutgers University Press.
- Weitz, E. D. (2015). A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (Revised edition). Princeton University Press.
- Williams, T. (2020). The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide. Rutgers University Press.
- Wolfe, Patrick. (1999). Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology:the Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, London and New York.
- Wolfe, Patrick. (2008). Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native, Jnl. Of Genocide Research, 8, 4, 2006; Development Dialogue, No. 50.
- Zimmerer, Jürgen. (2024) Colonialism and the Holocaust: Towards an Archaeology of Genocide. From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 125–153.
Prevention
- Barkan, E., Goschler, C., & Waller, J. (Eds.). (2022). Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities. Routledge.
- Harff, B., & Gurr, T. R. (Eds.). (2018). Preventing Mass Atrocities: Policies and Practices. Routledge.
Conventions and Agreements
Legal
Biographical
Gender and sexual violence
White genocide conspiracy theory
See main article: White genocide conspiracy theory.
- Dyck, K. (2019). "They'll Take Away Our Birthrights": How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction. In T. D. Boyce & W. M. Chunnu (Eds.), Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering (pp. 73–87). University Press of Colorado.
- Kamali, S. (2021). White Genocide: Grievances of White Nationalists. In Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States (1st ed., pp. 113–136). University of California Press.
- Temoney, K. E. (2020). Anatomizing White Rage: "Race is My Religion!" and "White Genocide." In S. C. Finley, B. M. Gray, & L. L. Martin (Eds.), The Religion of White Rage: Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress (pp. 149–165). Edinburgh University Press.
Historiography and memory studies
Reference works
- Bartrop, Paul R.; Jacobs, Steven Leonard (eds.). (2014). Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection [4 volumes: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection]. ABC-CLIO.
- Blackhawk, Ned. (2023) The Cambridge World History of Genocide. Edited by N. Blackhawk, B. Kiernan, B. Madley, and R. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The Cambridge World History of Genocide).
- Bloxham, D., & Moses, A. Dirk. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford University Press.
Academic journals
Primary sources
Works below are items related to the development of Genocide studies.
See also
References
Citations
Further reading
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Genocide . 2016 . Amsterdam University Press . j.ctt1d8hb37 . 978-90-8964-524-1 . Keppy . Peter . de Zwarte . Ingrid . Kristel . Conny . Berkhoff . Karel.
- Fleischman . Julie M. . 2015 . Reviewed work: Destruction and Human Remains: Disposal and Concealment in Genocide and Mass Violence, Élisabeth Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Finn Stepputat; Governing the Dead: Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies, Stepputat Finn . Genocide Studies International . 9 . 2 . 274–277 . 10.3138/gsi.9.2.09 . 2291-1847 . 26986028.
- Phillips . Scott . Campbell . Bradley . 2016 . Reviewed work: The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology, CampbellBradley . American Journal of Sociology . 122 . 3 . 998–1000 . 10.1086/688477 . 0002-9602 . 26545886.
- Brehm . Hollie Nyseth . 2017 . Reviewed work: The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology, Bradley Campbell . Contemporary Sociology . 46 . 2 . 165–166 . 10.1177/0094306117692573f . 0094-3061 . 26425624 . 151583031.
- Carlson . Elof Axel . Daar . Judith . 2017 . Reviewed work: The New Eugenics: Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies . The Quarterly Review of Biology . 92 . 4 . 478 . 10.1086/694978 . 0033-5770 . 26553908.
- Dickens . Bernard M. . 2018 . The New Eugenics – Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies: A Review Essay . Population and Development Review . 44 . 3 . 627–638 . 10.1111/padr.12191 . 1728-4457 . 26622857 . 150161016. free .
- Fujii . Lee Ann . Thalhammer . Kristina E. . Tronto . Joan C. . 2012 . Genocide and the Psychology of Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Victims: A Discussion of 'Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice' . Perspectives on Politics . 10 . 2 . 415–424 . 10.1017/S1537592712000758 . 1537-5927 . 41479560 . 145331504.
- Melson . Robert . 2009 . Reviewed work: Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, A. Dirk Moses . Journal of World History . 20 . 3 . 463–466 . 10.1353/jwh.0.0062 . 1527-8050 . 40542813 . 161204084.
- Adas . Michael . 2009 . Reviewed work: Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, A. Dirk Moses . The International History Review . 31 . 4 . 860–862 . 0707-5332 . 40647058.
- Brehm . Hollie Nyseth . 2017 . Reviewed work: The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide, Nicole Rafter . Contemporary Sociology . 46 . 4 . 464–465 . 10.1177/0094306117714500ee . 0094-3061 . 26425041 . 220184532.
- Walklate . Sandra . 2016 . Reviewed work: The Crime of all Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide, Nicole Rafter . The British Journal of Criminology . 56 . 6 . 1308–1310 . 10.1093/bjc/azw061 . 1464-3529 . 44074923.
- Van De Walle . Nicolas . 2016 . Reviewed work: Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa, Scott Straus; from War to Genocide: Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994, André Guichaoua, Don e. Webster . Foreign Affairs . 95 . 3 . 189–190 . 0015-7120 . 43946915.
- Kühne . Thomas . 2016 . Reviewed work: Making and Unmaking Nations. War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa, Scott Straus . Genocide Studies International . 10 . 2 . 251–253 . 10.3138/gsi.10.2.07 . 2291-1847 . 26986051 . 151553182.
- Mampilly . Zachariah . 2016 . Reviewed work: Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa, Scott Straus . The Journal of Modern African Studies . 54 . 2 . 339–341 . 10.1017/S0022278X16000045 . 0022-278X . 26309870 . 148062693.
- Nzelibe . Jide . 2013 . International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts. By Chile Eboe-Osuji. Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012. Pp. Xvii, 354. Index. $178, €130 . American Journal of International Law . 107 . 3 . 728–731 . 10.5305/amerjintelaw.107.3.0728 . 0002-9300 . 157872303.
- 44873805. Arnold . Jobb . Reviewed work: Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide, Scott W. Murray . Peace Research . 2018 . 50 . 1 . 105–107 .