The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032085791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 414 str.

Susanne C. Knittel; Zachary J. Goldberg

Opis

The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies traces the growth an important interdisciplinary field, its foundations, key debates and core concerns, as well as highlighting current and emerging issues and approaches and pointing to new directions for enquiry.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Core Concepts and Key Debates  1.1 Definitions and Terminology  1. From Perpetrators to Perpetration: Definitions, Typologies, and Processes  1.2 Group Dynamics and Moral Psychology  2. The Making and Un-Making of Perpetrators: Patterns of Involvement in Nazi Persecution  3. Ordinary Organizations: A Systems Theory Approach to Perpetrator Studies  4. Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments  5. The Authoritarian Personality: Then and Now  6. What’s Moral Character Got to Do with It? Perpetrators and the Nature of Moral Evil  7. The Making of a Torturer  8. Linking Perpetrator Characteristics to Jihadist Modus Operandi: An Explorative Study  1.3 Perpetrators and the Law  9. Nazi Perpetrators and the Law: Postwar Trials, Courtroom Testimony, and Debates About the Motives of Nazi War Criminals  10. When Perpetrators Become Defendants, and then Convicts  11. Unsettling Accounts: Perpetrators’ Confessions in the Aftermath of State Violence and Armed Conflict  12. The Coercive Effects of International Justice: How Perpetrators Respond to Threats of Prosecution  Part 2: Intersections  2.1 Perpetrators – New Theoretical Approaches  13. Gendering the Perpetrator – Gendering Perpetrator Studies  14. Posthumanism and Perpetrators  15. Notes on the Subaltern: Or, How Postcolonial Critique Meets the Perpetrator  16. Perpetrators, Animals, and Animality  17. Understanding Perpetrators’ Use of Music  18. Information Technologies and Constructions of Perpetrator Identities  19. Climate Change Perpetrators: Ecocriticism, Implicated Subjects, and Anthropocene Fiction  2.2 Aftermaths: Responsibility, Trauma, and Memory  20. Moral Responsibility and Evil  21. Restorative Justice and the Challenge of Perpetrator Accountability  22. The Contours and Controversies of Perpetrator Trauma  23. The Intergenerational Effects of Mass Trauma in Sculpting New Perpetrators  24. One Perpetrator at a Time:　The Contribution of Public Health Science to Genocide Prevention  2.3 Perpetrators and Representation  25. Perpetrators and Perpetration in Literature  26. Whose Evil is This? Perpetrators in the Theater  27. Representing Infamous Others: Perpetrator Imagery in Visual Art  28. Cultural Codes: Holocaust Resonances in Representations of Genocide Perpetrators  29. Playing Perpetrators: Interrogating Evil in Videogames about Violent Conflicts  2.4 Teaching about Perpetrators  30. Playing Devil’s Advocate: Classroom Encounters with Holocaust Perpetrators  31. Teaching the Perpetrator’s Perspective in Holocaust Literature  32. Teaching For/About Empathy in Peace Education  33. Beyond Thinking Like a Lawyer: Providing a Space for Perpetrator Studies within the Legal Classroom  34. The Ethics of Discomfort: Critical Perpetrator Studies and/as Education after Auschwitz

O autorze

Susanne C. Knittel is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on questions of memory, commemoration, and cultural amnesia across cultures and media. She is the author of The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory and editor in chief of The Journal of Perpetrator Research.

Zachary J. Goldberg is Research Fellow in moral philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. His most recent publications focus on the metaethics and normativity of　the concept of evil, and theories of individual and collective moral responsibility. He is　currently Principal Investigator of the project "Components of Evil: An Analysis of Secular　Moral Evil and its Normative and Societal Implications" funded by the Deutsche　Forschungsgemeinschaft.