General information

Course name	Seminar: Anthropography of Genocide
Course number	BA: GKV
Semester	SS 2014
Current number of participants	2
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Monday, 07.04.2014 14:15 - 15:45
Type/Form	BA: GKV
Participants	In the last two decades we have come to observe how "genocide studies" have developed into an interdisciplinary field of knowledge with several research and teaching institutions worldwide. This course sets out to explore not only what is referred to as the "canon" of genocide, e.g. the Armenian, the Holocaust/Shoah, the Cambodian and the Rwandan, but also other cases of genocide, e.g. in Guatemala, Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It will start by looking at how genocide has evolved as an established global legal definition, and come to be applied to other historical events that precede the invention of the term itself. In doing so, we will address the following questions: What is genocide and how does it emerge? How is genocide as a legal definition appropriated and applied to other contexts? How do genocide studies approach and examine acts of genocide and their aftermath? How do survivors live on in the aftermath and negotiate their claims of justice, recognition, reparations, memory and representation? How does the International Criminal Court deal with acts of genocide? Nonetheless, the question of how anthropography, unlike ethnography, insist on the heterogeneity of acts of genocide and thus rejects their restriction to a particular social group, community and geography will be of immense importance. The objective is that students develop a thorough understanding of genocide studies, and in particular anthropography of genocide. In addition, the course will enable students to critically examine anthropological and others texts on state violence; and to apply anthropological concepts to better understand contemporary state or political violence around the world.
Pre-requisites	Recommended Reading: Hinton, Alexander L. 2002. "The dark side of modernity: Toward an anthropology of genocide." In Annihilating difference: The anthropology of genocide, edited by Alexander Laban Hinton, 1-40. California: University of California Press.
Performance record	Studienleistung:Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben. Modulleistung: Seminararbeit
Studiengänge (für)	BA Ethnologie BA Interkulturelle Südasienkunde (GK)
SWS	2
Miscellanea	Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.

Lehrende

Fazil Moradi

Rooms and times

No room preference: Monday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly(13x)

Fields of study

Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie
Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Orientalisches Institut > Südasien-Seminar

Comment/Description

In the last two decades we have come to observe how “genocide studies” have developed into an interdisciplinary field of knowledge with several research and teaching institutions worldwide. This course sets out to explore not only what is referred to as the “canon” of genocide, e.g. the Armenian, the Holocaust/Shoah, the Cambodian and the Rwandan, but also other cases of genocide, e.g. in Guatemala, Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It will start by looking at how genocide has evolved as an established global legal definition, and come to be applied to other historical events that precede the invention of the term itself. In doing so, we will address the following questions: What is genocide and how does it emerge? How is genocide as a legal definition appropriated and applied to other contexts? How do genocide studies approach and examine acts of genocide and their aftermath? How do survivors live on in the aftermath and negotiate their claims of justice, recognition, reparations, memory and representation? How does the International Criminal Court deal with acts of genocide? Nonetheless, the question of how anthropography, unlike ethnography, insist on the heterogeneity of acts of genocide and thus rejects their restriction to a particular social group, community and geography will be of immense importance.
The objective is that students develop a thorough understanding of genocide studies, and in particular anthropography of genocide. In addition, the course will enable students to critically examine anthropological and others texts on state violence; and to apply anthropological concepts to better understand contemporary state or political violence around the world.