In Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine writes:“Yes, and the body has memory. The
physical carriage hauls more than its weight.” 1 This is an experiential truth that is gaining …

The move from “genocide” to “the genocidal” disrupts longstanding assumptions about the
causative origins of events, the lineal nature of temporality, and the voluntarist bases of …

The nature-nurture debate continues to stir controversy in the social and behavioral
sciences. How much of human behavior and development can be attributed to biology and …

Drawing on comparative politics and international relations theory, this dissertation develops
a constructivist analytical model to explain the origins of genocide. Through a comparative …

This article argues that neither the proponents of the uniqueness of the Holocaust nor those
who see other genocides as paradigmatic provide helpful ways of furthering the scholarly …

“While the volume intends to make a special contribution to anthropology, a wide range of
readers will find it fascinating and insightful, including this political scientist.”-Elisabeth King …

In" The genocidal continuum," Nancy Scheper-Hughes argues that theorists from Freud to
Foucault tend to psychologize violence and domination, which can distract us from …

Exactly twenty-five years after the first volume of his global comparative history of the
Holocaust, Steven T. Katz has now published the second volume on New World slavery. 1 …

Although many writers have argued that the Holocaust de® nes the limits of representation
and even of language itself (see Friedlander, 1992), sharp disagreement is evident as to …

Genocide studies has always been a goal-oriented area ofscholarship that has sought to
make the post-Holocaust injunction,“never again” a reality. Whether through comparative or …