Researching perpetrators of genocide / edited by Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jessee, Erin, 1979- editor.

Anderson, Kjell Follingstad, 1977- editor.

Series:

Critical human rights.

Critical human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminals--Research.

Criminals.

Genocide--Research.

Genocide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]

Summary:

Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have been identified as perpetrators of genocide. This can include overcoming biases that often accompany research on perpetrators; conceptualizing, identifying, and recruiting research subjects; risk mitigation and negotiating access in difficult contexts; self-care in conducting interviews relating to extreme violence; and minimizing harm for interviewees who may themselves be traumatized.This collection of case studies by scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds turns a critical and reflective eye toward qualitative fieldwork on the topic. Framed by an introduction that sets out key issues in perpetrator research and a conclusion that proposes and outlines a code of best practice, the volume provides an essential starting point for future research while advancing genocide studies, transitional justice, and related fields. This original, important, and welcome contribution will be of value to historians, political scientists, criminologists, anthropologists, lawyers, and legal scholars.

Contents:

Introduction / Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee

The perpetrator imaginary: representing perpetrators of genocide / Kjell Anderson

Victims everywhere, perpetrators nowhere: locating and talking to perpetrators in Cambodia / Timothy Williams

Seeing monsters, hearing victims: the politics of perpetration in postgenocide Rwanda / Erin Jessee

Perpetrators among ourselves / Ivana Maček

Getting close with perpetrators in Argentina / Eva van Roekel

Assad's paramilitaries: Shabbiha perpetrators in the Syrian Civil War / Uğur Ümit Üngör

From murders to victims: dilemmas of doing perpetrator research in an illiberal state / Andrea Pető

From a perpetrators' to a respondents' approach: a new way to consider the words of the accused before international criminal courts / Marie-Sophie Devresse and Damien Scalia

Conclusion: toward a code of practice for qualitative research among perpetrators / Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299329709

0299329704

OCLC:

1202058987