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Postgenocide : interdisciplinary reflections on the effects of genocide /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mulaj, Klejda (editer.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Genocide.
Reconciliation.
Transitional justice.
Réconciliation.
Justice transitionnelle.
Genocide
Reconciliation
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • PART II: GENOCIDE DENIAL ANDREMEMBRANCE
  • 6. Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Denial: The Armenian Genocide, Generative Denials, and Postgenocide Politics in Contemporary Tur
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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