Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Reading mass violence -- Contending terminologies -- The resurgence of genocide -- Reading mass killings -- Narratives -- Revisionism and reconstruction -- Education -- Reflections -- Trauma -- Memorialization -- Literature -- Dialogue and reconciliation -- Notes -- Part 1: Narratives -- Chapter 2: Violence and violations 1 : Betrayal narratives in atrocity accounts -- The unseen -- Narratives: retribution and resentment -- Ancestral memories: betrayal -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Holocaust survivors in Mexico: Intersecting and conflicting narratives of open doors, welcoming society and personal hardships -- Mexico's closed doors to Jewish refugees and survivors -- The narrative of open doors -- The testimonies -- Immigration and arrival -- Difficulties to arrive and settle -- Those who arrived: mixed emotions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Historical narratives, the perpetuation of trauma, and the work of Vamık Volkan -- Large-group identity and historical narrative -- Large-group identity in times of stress -- Community loss and community mourning -- The "Tree Model" for bringing opposing groups together -- Postscript -- Notes -- Part 2: Revisionism & -- reconstruction -- Chapter 5: Holocaust, propaganda, and the distortion of history in the former Soviet space -- Prevalence of Soviet propaganda in the post-Soviet world -- The continuing legacy of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact -- Ukraine and the Holocaust -- Memorialization (of whom?) in Poland -- Other models of memory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Genocide of 1971 in Bangladesh: Lessons from history -- Introduction.

Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia. The essays explore and deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, memorialization and literature, the need for Holocaust education, and the criticality of dialogue and reconciliation. The language, content, and characteristics of mass violence/genocide explicitly reinforce its aggressive, transmuting, and multifaceted character and the consequent necessity to understand the same in a nuanced manner. The book is an attempt to do so as it takes episodes of mass violence for case study from all inhabited continents, from the twentieth century to the present. The volume studies consciously enforced mass violence' through an interdisciplinary approach and suggests that dialogue aimed at reconciliation is perhaps the singular agency via which a solution could be achieved from mass violence in the global context. The volume is essential reading for postgraduate students and scholars from the interdisciplinary fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, World History, Human Rights, and Global Studies.

"Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia. The volume is essential reading for postgraduate students and scholars from the interdisciplinary fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, World History, Human Rights, and Global Studies"--