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In his chapter, Adam Jones addresses genocide as multi-dimensional crime. He describes two broad typologies of genocide – 'gendercide', and 'root and branch genocide', which are 'distinguished by the different operations of the gender variable in each'. As Jones outlines, the Rwanda genocide evidenced broad range of gendered aspects – from leveraging ethnicized gender tropes, through the sometime employment of gender-based genocidal approaches (execution, rape), to the economic and social consequences (planned or not) that are the legacy of gendered genocide. 'The "gendering" of a given genocide', he concludes, 'therefore encompasses the cultural configurations that influence the mobilisation of perpetrators and the targeting of victims, as well as the sexed bodies that are damaged or destroyed in genocidal campaigns'.

When in 1976 Raymond williams published his famous book, Keywords, Genocide was not among the discussed terms. Neither was Holocaust nor human rights, though he did include an entry on 'humanity'. The subtitle indicated his remit: 'A Vocabulary of Culture and Society'. A Marxist charting the transformations of western societies wrought by capitalism, Williams was interested in the historical semantics of words like class and art, industry and democracy that registered the unfolding and effects of European modernity. His book was, accordingly, not only Eurocentric, but western Eurocentric, reflecting the experience of that part of the world over the last two centuries. The fact that Williams, born in 1921 and a veteran of the Second World War, did not include the words that many today regard as central for articulating our experience—words which come out of that war—points not only to the rapid transitions in keyword shelf life but also to the particularity of experience.

"Teaching Genocide" published on by Oxford University Press.

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 of genocide. It then examines the colonial genocides at the end of the 19th- and start of the 20th-centuries; the Armenian Genocide of 1915-16; the Nazi `Final Solution'; the Nazi genocide of the Gypsies; mass murder in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge; the genocides in the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; and the genocide in Sudan in the early 21st century. It also includes a thematic chapter which covers gender and genocide, as well as issues of memory and memorialisation. Finally, the book considers how genocides end, as well as the questions of resolution and denial, with Lisa Pine examining the debates around prediction and prevention and the R2P (Responsibility to Protect) initiative.This book is crucial for any students wanting to understand why genocides have occurred, why they still occur and what the key historical discussions around this subject entail.

1. 'No man's land' and the creation of partitioned histories in India/Pakistan / Pippa Virdee -- 2. Three films, one genocide : remembering the Armenian genocide through Ravished Armenia(s) / Donna-Lee Frieze -- 3. Memorial stories : commemorating the Rwanda genocide through fiction / Nicki Hitchcott -- 4. To be hunted like animals : Samuel and Joseph Chanesman remember their survival in the Polish countryside during the Holocaust / Pam Maclean -- 5. Set in stone? The intergenerational and institutional transmission of Holocaust memory / Avril Alba -- 6. National memory and museums : remembering settler colonial genocide of indigenous peoples in Canada / Tricia Logan -- 7. Memory at the site : witnessing, education and the repurposing of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek in Cambodia / Elena Lesley-Rozen -- 8. Contested notions of genocide and commemoration : the case of the herero in Namibia / Henning Melber -- 9. Burying genocide : official remembrance and reconciliation in Australia / Damien Short -- 10. Bodies of evidence : remembering the Rwandan genocide at Murambi / Nigel Eltringham.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Theoretical Foundations -- 2. Cultural Genocide and the American Indians -- 3. Russia and the Jews in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Israel and Palestinian Cultural Genocide -- 5. The Chinese Assimilation of Tibet -- 6. Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

From the atrocities of the Holocaust to the ongoing horrors in Darfur, genocide has been a gruesome and all-too-prominent fixture of modern history. There is no better way to examine and understand these events than through the accounts of those involved. This unique collection of primary sources features 50 documents, some of which have never before been made public. These firsthand accounts-diary entries, memoirs, oral testimony, original interviews, and more-illuminate 10 genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries as they were experienced by victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. The book

A review essay on books by (1) Robert Gellately & Ben Kiernan (Eds), The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2003); (2) Samantha Power, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (London: Flamingo, 2003); & (3) Martin Shaw, War and Genocide: Organized Killing in Modern Society (Cambridge: Polity, 2003).