- Summary
- "The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies provides the first comprehensive overview of this emerging interdisciplinary field in the humanities and social sciences. Featuring contributions by scholars from a wide variety of fields and disciplines, the Handbook charts the growth and development, foundations, key debates, core concerns, and frontiers of Perpetrator Studies. Focusing on genocide, terrorism, and other forms of political mass violence, this Handbook addresses questions of guilt and responsibility, definition, terminology, typology, motivations, group dynamics, memory, trauma, representation, and pedagogy. Offering a thematic and conceptual approach that facilitates a comparative analysis across historical, geographic, and disciplinary lines, the Handbook allows different disciplinary perspectives to confront one another. In so doing, this foundational volume presents contemporary perspectives on longstanding debates whilst also providing new contributions to the field. Written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind, the chapters provide an overview of existing work on a specific topic or issue, delineate current developments within the respective discipline or field, and make suggestions for further research. As such, the book will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including history, sociology, anthropology, criminology, law, philosophy, memory studies, psychology, political science, literary studies, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and education"-- Provided by publisher.
- Series
- Routledge international handbooks
Routledge international handbooks.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
- Contents
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Foreword: Critical perpetrator studies / Alexander Hinton
Introduction / Susanne C. Knittel and Zachary J. Goldberg
Part 1, Core concepts and key debates. Definitions and terminology. From perpetrators to perpetration: definitions, typologies and processes / Ugur Umit Ungor, Kjell Anderson
Group dynamics and moral psychology. The making and unmaking of perpetrators: patterns of involvement in Nazi persecution / Mary Fulbrook
Ordinary organizations: a systems theory approach to perpetrator studies / Stefan Kuhl
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments / Stephen Gibson
The authoritarian personality: then and now / Christina Gerhardt
What's moral character got to do with it: perpetrators and the nature of moral evil / Zachary J. Goldberg
The making of a torturer / Jessica Wolfendale
Linking perpetrator characteristics to Jihadist modus operandi: an exploratory study / Teun van Dongen
Perpetrators and the law. Nazi perpetrators and the law: postwar trials, courtroom testimony, and debates about the motives of Nazi war criminals / Hilary Earl
When perpetrators become defendants and then convicts / Mark A. Drumbl
Unsettling accounts: perpetrators' confessions in the aftermath of state violence and armed conflict / Leigh A. Payne
The coercive effects of international justice: how perpetrators respond to threats of prosecution / David Mendeloff
Part 2, Intersections. Perpetrators
new theoretical approaches. Gendering the perpetrator: gendering perpetrator studies / Clare Bielby
Posthumanism and perpetrators / Jonathan Luke Austin
Notes on the subaltern: or, how postcolonial critique meets the perpetrator / rashne limki
Perpetrators, animals and animality / Kari Driscoll
Understanding perpetrators' use of music / M.J. Grant
Information technologies and constructions of perpetrator identities / Adam Henschke
Climate change perpetrators: ecocriticism, implicated subjects, and anthropocene fiction / Rick Crownshaw
Aftermaths, responsibility, trauma and memory. Moral responsibility and evil / Paul Formosa
Restorative justice and the challenge of perpetrator accountability / Margaret Urban Walker
The contours and controversies of perpetrator trauma / Saira Mohamed
The intergenerational effects of mass trauma in sculpting new perpetrators / Lane Benjamin, Melike M. Fourie
One perpetrator at a time: the contribution of public health science to genocide prevention / Reva N. Adler
Perpetrators and representation. Perpetrators and perpetration in literatiure / Stephanie Bird
Whose evil is this? perpetrators in the theater / Robert Skloot
Representing infamous others: perpetrator imagery in visual art / Diana I. Popescu
Cultural codes: Holocaust resonances in representations of genocide perpetrators / Rebecca Jinks
Playing perpetrators: interrogating evil in videogames about violent conflicts / Holger Potzsch, Emil Lundedal Hammar
Teaching about perpetrators. Playing devil's advocate: classroom encounters with Holocaust perpetrators / Alasdair Richardson
Teaching the perpetrator's perspective in Holocaust literature / Erin McGlothlin
Teaching for/about empathy in peace education / Michalinos Zembylas
Beyond thinking like a lawyer: providing a space for perpetrator studies within the legal classroom / Brianne McGonigle Leyh
The ethics of discomfort: critical perpetrator studies and/as education after Auschwitz / Susanne C. Knittel
Index.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Knittel, Susanne C., editor.
Goldberg, Zachary J., editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: Critical perpetrator studies / Alexander Hinton -- Introduction / Susanne C. Knittel and Zachary J. Goldberg -- Part 1, Core concepts and key debates. Definitions and terminology. From perpetrators to perpetration: definitions, typologies and processes / Ugur Umit Ungor, Kjell Anderson -- Group dynamics and moral psychology. The making and unmaking of perpetrators: patterns of involvement in Nazi persecution / Mary Fulbrook -- Ordinary organizations: a systems theory approach to perpetrator studies / Stefan Kuhl -- Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments / Stephen Gibson -- The authoritarian personality: then and now / Christina Gerhardt -- What's moral character got to do with it: perpetrators and the nature of moral evil / Zachary J. Goldberg -- The making of a torturer / Jessica Wolfendale -- Linking perpetrator characteristics to Jihadist modus operandi: an exploratory study / Teun van Dongen -- Perpetrators and the law. Nazi perpetrators and the law: postwar trials, courtroom testimony, and debates about the motives of Nazi war criminals / Hilary Earl -- When perpetrators become defendants and then convicts / Mark A. Drumbl -- Unsettling accounts: perpetrators' confessions in the aftermath of state violence and armed conflict / Leigh A. Payne -- The coercive effects of international justice: how perpetrators respond to threats of prosecution / David Mendeloff -- Part 2, Intersections. Perpetrators -- new theoretical approaches. Gendering the perpetrator: gendering perpetrator studies / Clare Bielby -- Posthumanism and perpetrators / Jonathan Luke Austin -- Notes on the subaltern: or, how postcolonial critique meets the perpetrator / rashne limki -- Perpetrators, animals and animality / Kari Driscoll -- Understanding perpetrators' use of music / M.J. Grant -- Information technologies and constructions of perpetrator identities / Adam Henschke -- Climate change perpetrators: ecocriticism, implicated subjects, and anthropocene fiction / Rick Crownshaw -- Aftermaths, responsibility, trauma and memory. Moral responsibility and evil / Paul Formosa -- Restorative justice and the challenge of perpetrator accountability / Margaret Urban Walker -- The contours and controversies of perpetrator trauma / Saira Mohamed -- The intergenerational effects of mass trauma in sculpting new perpetrators / Lane Benjamin, Melike M. Fourie -- One perpetrator at a time: the contribution of public health science to genocide prevention / Reva N. Adler -- Perpetrators and representation. Perpetrators and perpetration in literatiure / Stephanie Bird -- Whose evil is this? perpetrators in the theater / Robert Skloot -- Representing infamous others: perpetrator imagery in visual art / Diana I. Popescu -- Cultural codes: Holocaust resonances in representations of genocide perpetrators / Rebecca Jinks -- Playing perpetrators: interrogating evil in videogames about violent conflicts / Holger Potzsch, Emil Lundedal Hammar -- Teaching about perpetrators. Playing devil's advocate: classroom encounters with Holocaust perpetrators / Alasdair Richardson -- Teaching the perpetrator's perspective in Holocaust literature / Erin McGlothlin -- Teaching for/about empathy in peace education / Michalinos Zembylas -- Beyond thinking like a lawyer: providing a space for perpetrator studies within the legal classroom / Brianne McGonigle Leyh -- The ethics of discomfort: critical perpetrator studies and/as education after Auschwitz / Susanne C. Knittel -- Index.
