Postgenocide : interdisciplinary reflections on the effects of genocide / edited by Klejda Mulaj.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mulaj, Klejda, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconciliation.

Genocide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This edited volume studies the after-effects of genocide, exploring the ways in which societies are shaped by a history of such extreme violence. Contributions from a variety of perspectives, including law, political science, sociology, and ethnography, explore previously overlooked themes and cases to reassess existing assumptions in the field.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

1. Introduction: Postgenocide: Living with Permutations of Genocide Harms

Opening Remarks

Postgenocide

The De/.Stabilized Meaning of 'Genocide'

Permutations of Genocide Harms

Inadequate Responses, Ir/.Reconciliation

The Chapters

PART I: THE LAW AND RESPONSIBILITYFOR GENOCIDE

2. Challenges to Criminalizing State Responsibility for Genocide

Introduction

State Criminal Responsibility versus Individual Criminal Responsibility for Genocide

Artificial Non-.State Legal Persons: Can they Commit Genocide? The Case of Corporate Criminal Liability

Typology of Legal Persons: The State as a Legal Person

Civil Reparations for a Wrongful Act of State

Criminalizing State Responsibility for Genocide and Its Attendant Implementation Difficulties

State Criminal Responsibility and Liability

Inroads in State Immunity Supporting the Case for State Criminal Responsibility

Conclusion

3. The Role of Law in Enabling Postgenocide Recovery: Assessing the Importance of Property Restitution

Property Theft Accompanying Genocide is Itself a Form of Genocide

Full Reparation Requires Recognition of Both Material and Moral Injury

Holocaust Restitution: A Model of Success

PostHolocaust Challenges to Enforcement

4. Postgenocide Justice? Assessing the Prosecution and Punishment of Genocide by Internationalized Courts and Tribunals

Plotting Genocide: Some Underlying Assumptions

The Nuremberg Military Tribunals

The Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals: The ICTY and the ICTR

The International Criminal Court

The Hybrid Criminal Tribunals

Concluding Observations.

5. Responsibility to Protect in International Criminal Law: The Case of the Genocide against the Rohingya

Application of Different Jurisdictions over the Rohingya Atrocity

Promise of R2P as a Response Mechanism to Genocide

Application of the R2P over the Rohingya Genocide

PART II: GENOCIDE DENIAL ANDREMEMBRANCE

6. Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Denial: The Armenian Genocide, Generative Denials, and Postgenocide Politics in Contemporary Tur

The Genocide Conjuncture and Generative Denials

Sovereign Encounters and Denials

Sovereignty and Subjects-.of-.Denial

The Politics of Denial in Postgenocide

7. Constructions of Genocide Denial and Remembrance: Fractured National Identity in Postgenocide Bosnia

Legal Effects: Construing Genocide Knowledge in the Courts of Law

Genocide Remembrance and Denial

Letting Genocide Survivals Down: Denial of Victims' Rights and Fractures of National Unity

Concluding Remarks

8. Politics of Inter/.National Denial of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Prelude to the 1994 Genocide and Its Denial

Rebranding the Guilty in the Aftermath of Genocide

Politico-.Juridical Re/.Actions to Genocide/.Denial: The French Factor

ICTR and Genocide Denial

The Role of the Media

The Church: A Failure of Forgiveness?

Closing Thoughts

PART III: POSTGENOCIDE IDENTITIES, MEMORY, AND IR/.RECONCILIATION

PART III: POSTGENOCIDEIDENTITIES, MEMORY, ANDIR/ RECONCILIATION

9. Memory, Identity, and Possession: Personal Objects from Genocide in Galleries, Museums, and Archives

Personal Objects and Genocide

Galleries, Museums, and Archives

Encountering Personal Objects from Genocide in GAMs

Ways We Encounter Objects 1: Affective Objects

Ways We Encounter Objects 2: Stolen and Disconnected Objects.

Decolonization and Return: Recent Shifts

10. Indigeneity, Memory, and Postgenocide in Guatemala: The Stillness Power of Local Archives

The Genocide and the Usefulness of Indigenous Community Archives

Resistance in El Quiché: The CERJ Human Rights Records

Phase I: Action Research

Phase 2: A Preliminary Assessment of Artefacts of Indigeneity of Resistance

Political Indigeneity and the Archives: A Testimony

Social Role: Education

Solidarity and Mobilization

11. Rhetorical versus Substantive Reconciliation After Cultural Genocide in Canada

Genocide and the Settler Colonial Project in Canada

The Possibilities and Limits of Reconciliation in Canada

Final Observations

12. Conclusion: Further Agendas for Postgenocide Research

Climate Violence Debates and the Evolution of Genocide Studies

Postgenocide Elements

Postgenocide Identities

Performing Violent Identities

Resource Wars, Wars of Survival

Mobilizations of Identity

Departing Thoughts

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-264825-X

0-19-191594-7

0-19-264824-1

OCLC:

1261275271