This book explores the subject of genocide through key debates and case studies. It analyses the dynamics of genocide - the processes and mechanisms of acts committed with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, religious or racial group - in order to shed light upon its origins, characteristics and consequences. Debating Genocide begins with an introduction to the concept ...

Twenty personal accounts dealing with problems common to all inmates, as well as gender-specific problems: how to confront the struggle to survive, how to resist, and how to face up to pseudo-medical experiments in the camp. Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-389) and index. vii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Table of Contents - Editor's Note / Kris Morrisey. - Where Are We? / John Fraser and Joe E. Heimlich. - The Museum's Silent Sexual Performance / James H. Sanders. - Secret Museums: Hidden Histories of Sex and Sexuality / Stuart Frost. - Theorizing the Queer Museum / Robert Mills. - Embracing Our Erotic Intelligence / Paul Gabriel. - So, Where Is Queer? A Critical Geography of Queer Exhibitions in Australia ...

"War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This new book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the historical and contemporary impact that coercion and warfare have on the transformation of social life, and vice versa. Although war and violence were decisive ...

The following files contain statistical information about Jewish and Krymchak population of Simferopol and the Crimea during the Nazi occupation: File 1. Statistical reports for November and December 1941. File 2. Statistical reports for January 1942. File 3. Statistical reports for February 1942. File 4. Statistical reports for March 1942. File 5. Statistical reports for April 1942. File 6. Statistical ...

Dark side of humans / Ton Zwaan. - Genocide, an enduring problem of our age / Uǧur Ümit Üngör. - Ethnic nationalism and genocide : constructing "the other" in Romania and Serbia / Diana Oncioiu. - Demonic transitions : how ordinary people can commit extraordinary evil / Christophe Busch. - State deviancy and genocide : the state as a shelter and a prison / Kjell Anderson. - Hunting specters : paranoid ...

"In this collection, a group of historians explores the role of masculinity in the modern history of politics and war. Building on three decades of research in women's and gender history, the book opens up new avenues in the history of masculinity. The essays by social, political and cultural historians therefore map masculinity's part in making revolution, waging war, building nations, and constructing ...

This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers. Under the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and Nachrichtenhelferinnen des Heeres (female auxiliaries for the army) held similar jobs: taking dictation, answering telephones, sending ...

Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of light night-bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female active ...

Too often in conflict situations rape is referred to as a "weapon of war" - a term presented as self-explanatory. In this book, Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Drawing upon original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, the authors emphasize the importance ...

Introduction: Beyond the Canon: History in a Globalizing World / S. Stuurman & M. Grever. - PART 1: THE FRAMING OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE Who Needs a Canon? / P. Seixas. - Plurality, Narrative and the Historical Canon / M. Grever. - From National Canon to Historical Literacy / P. Lee. - "Another Brick in the Wall'. Historical Culture and History Teaching / K. Ribbens. - PART 2: FOUNDATIONS AND REVISIONS ...

Prosthetic Memory argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender, to share collective memories -- to assimilate as deeply felt personal experiences historical ...

With its specific focus on British representations of masculinity in relation to the trauma of the First World War and notions of national identity, class and sexuality, this book provides a much needed addition to the historiography of visual culture during the period. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-210) and index. xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

BUREŠOVÁ, Jana: Czech Women's Progressive Associations in Moravia during the Second World War. - GRĄDZKA - REJAK, Martyna: Woman as victim or aggressor? : The impact of violence on the Jewish women in KL Plaszow 1942-1944). - HAUSLEITNER, Mariana: Rolle einiger Frauen bei der Rettung von Juden in Rumänien 1941-1945. - KUNT, Gergely: The Psychological Coping Mechanisms of a Jewish Hungarian Teenager, ...

Religious dimensions of conflict and peace in a neoliberal Africa: an introduction / James Howard Smith. - Forgiveness with consequences: scriptures, Qené, and traditions of restorative justice in nineteenth-century Ethiopia / Charles Schaefer. - Making peace with the devil: the political life of devil worship rumors in Kenya / James Howard Smith. - The Mungiki movement: a source of religio-political ...

Fascist Virilities exposes the relation between rhetoric and ideology. Barbara Spackman looks at Italian fascism as a matter of discourse, with "virility" as the master code that articulates and melds its disparate elements. In her analysis, rhetoric binds together the elements of ideology, with "virility" as the key. To reveal how this works, Spackman traces the circulation of "virility" in the discourse ...

"This study looks at nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary 'high' art-form altogether. Jeremy Tambling highlights the themes of the cultural crisis through a detailed discussion of some dozen operas and a critical re-reading of the works of Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, ...

Female agency in times of war / Eveline Buchheim & Ralf Futselaar ; 'Falange's female comrades [and] their German and Italian sisters': cross-border affinities between women's Fascist organizations, 1936-1946 / Toni Morant i Ariño ; Tales of a wartime vagabond: Hayashi Fumiko and the travels of Japanese writers in early wartime Southeast Asia / William Bradley Horton ; Aunts at war: loss and guilt ...

"This volume offers a fresh and original collection of primary sources on interwar European fascist movements. These sources reflect new approaches to fascism that emphasize the practical, transnational experience of fascism as a social movement, contextualising ideological statements within the historical moments they were produced Divided into eighteen geographically based chapters, contributors ...