This reflection explores the theories of evil in the field of genocide studies and highlights a ‘blind spot’ in understanding the motives behind mass killings. It discusses various theories of evil, ranging from individual-based to situational factors, and emphasizes the need for a nuanced understanding of diverse and complex motives. The reflection suggests that incorporating neuroscience into genocide studies may shed light on the motives behind violence by examining the impact of brain trauma and injury. However, it also raises questions about the extent to which neuroscience can provide a comprehensive explanation for motive and the implications of using neuroscientific evidence in genocide trials. The reflection concludes by discussing the limitations of attributing complete responsibility to the brain and the role of behavioral science in understanding criminal responsibility.
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Review of the volume Brigitte E. Jirku / Vicente Sánchez-Biosca eds., Geographies of Perpetration. Re-Signifying Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021). 270 pp. (hardback). Price: 59,95 Euro, ISBN 978-3-631-81098-9.
{"title":"Materiality and the Construction of Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence","authors":"Johanna Vollmeyer","doi":"10.21039/jpr.5.1.126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.5.1.126","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the volume Brigitte E. Jirku / Vicente Sánchez-Biosca eds., Geographies of Perpetration. Re-Signifying Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021). 270 pp. (hardback). Price: 59,95 Euro, ISBN 978-3-631-81098-9.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129884876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The second half of Sebastian Haffner’s posthumously published memoir, Geschichte eines Deutschen, describes Haffner’s experiences of the first years of Nazi rule. In my reading of key passages, I consider how the text works to highlight the discrepancy between Haffner’s thoughts and actions as he is increasingly compelled to accept and even participate in Nazi activities, despite his hatred of Nazism. By presenting his case as typical, and drawing the reader into a sense of intimacy and trust with Haffner, his text elicits empathy for the ‘ordinary Germans’ who unwillingly became part of what Fulbrook calls the ‘bystander society’ under Nazism. After analysing the memoir, I consider its reception in the German and English-speaking worlds at the time of publication, and reflect on the ethical implications of empathising with Haffner’s bystander perspective.
塞巴斯蒂安·哈夫纳(Sebastian Haffner)死后出版的回忆录《德国人的故事》(Geschichte eines Deutschen)的后半部分描述了哈夫纳在纳粹统治初期的经历。在我对关键段落的阅读中，我考虑了文本是如何突出哈夫纳的思想和行动之间的差异的，尽管他对纳粹主义充满仇恨，但他越来越被迫接受甚至参与纳粹活动。通过将他的案例作为典型来呈现，并将读者带入一种与哈夫纳的亲密感和信任感，他的文章引发了对“普通德国人”的同情，这些人不情愿地成为福尔布鲁克所说的纳粹主义下“旁观者社会”的一部分。在分析了回忆录之后，我考虑了它在出版时在德语和英语世界的接受程度，并反思了同情哈夫纳的旁观者视角的伦理含义。
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An interview conducted by Uğur Üngör with Alexander L. Hinton and A. C. G. M. Robben about their new book, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford University Press, 2023)
{"title":"Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side: A Conversation about Perpetrators","authors":"U. Üngör","doi":"10.21039/jpr.5.1.120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.5.1.120","url":null,"abstract":"An interview conducted by Uğur Üngör with Alexander L. Hinton and A. C. G. M. Robben about their new book, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford University Press, 2023)","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124410964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mass violence—killings and other forms of violence that aim at exterminating large groups of people—is often called a tragedy. The trope can be found in testimonies of victimization, justifications of perpetration, journalistic, political, and academic language as well as in popular parlance. The article examines the divergent usages of the travelling trope of tragedy with particular emphasis on its role in forming justificatory discourse. The issue at stake is that the trope of tragedy does not remain confined to outright justifications such as juridical legitimization, moral vindication, political propaganda etc., but permeates condemnation and critique as well. The rationale of the analysis is that justifications of acts of mass violence that are negotiated in key areas of the cultural canon give a culturally specific, often identificatory, meaning to acts that are, from a critical perspective, mostly either considered senseless or comprehended in economic and sociopolitical terms. Yet it is largely owing to justificatory discourses that acts of mass violence do not remain single, exorbitant events, but have a lasting impact by shaping the linguistic and heuristic framework of their subsequent evaluation. When condemnation and critique adopt these terminologies and frameworks—such as the notion of purity underlying the term ‘ethnic cleansing’, or the ethnopolitical paradigm informing the concept of genocide—this effects an uneasy mimetic participation in transmitting justifications of mass violence. The trope of tragedy makes it possible to address the issue of mimetic participation by drawing attention to the audience as an indispensable element of the discourse.
{"title":"Mass Violence as Tragedy: Analyzing the Transmission of Discourses","authors":"Juliane Prade-Weiss, Dominik Markl, V. Petrović","doi":"10.21039/jpr.5.1.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.5.1.97","url":null,"abstract":"Mass violence—killings and other forms of violence that aim at exterminating large groups of people—is often called a tragedy. The trope can be found in testimonies of victimization, justifications of perpetration, journalistic, political, and academic language as well as in popular parlance. The article examines the divergent usages of the travelling trope of tragedy with particular emphasis on its role in forming justificatory discourse. The issue at stake is that the trope of tragedy does not remain confined to outright justifications such as juridical legitimization, moral vindication, political propaganda etc., but permeates condemnation and critique as well. The rationale of the analysis is that justifications of acts of mass violence that are negotiated in key areas of the cultural canon give a culturally specific, often identificatory, meaning to acts that are, from a critical perspective, mostly either considered senseless or comprehended in economic and sociopolitical terms. Yet it is largely owing to justificatory discourses that acts of mass violence do not remain single, exorbitant events, but have a lasting impact by shaping the linguistic and heuristic framework of their subsequent evaluation. When condemnation and critique adopt these terminologies and frameworks—such as the notion of purity underlying the term ‘ethnic cleansing’, or the ethnopolitical paradigm informing the concept of genocide—this effects an uneasy mimetic participation in transmitting justifications of mass violence. The trope of tragedy makes it possible to address the issue of mimetic participation by drawing attention to the audience as an indispensable element of the discourse.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131110719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking at the Perpetrator in Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland","authors":"Olga Michael","doi":"10.21039/jpr.4.2.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.4.2.111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115691081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Familial Complicity in Peter Pontiac's Kraut, Nora Krug's Belonging, and Serena Katt's Sunday's Child","authors":"Laurike in ’t Veld","doi":"10.21039/jpr.4.2.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.4.2.117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121789289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Genocide in Joe Sacco's Paying the Land","authors":"Johann C. Schmid","doi":"10.21039/jpr.4.2.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.4.2.114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"437 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115268763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perpetrator as Punch-line: Hipster Hitler and the Ambiguity of Controversial Humor","authors":"M. Precup, D. Manea","doi":"10.21039/jpr.4.2.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.4.2.116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133415635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legacy of American Slavery: Contesting Blackness and Re-envisioning Nationhood in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation","authors":"Tatiana Konrad","doi":"10.21039/jpr.4.2.110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.4.2.110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131181349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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