Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes

Edited by: Frank Jacob and Martin Göllnitz

ISSN: 2626-6490

e-ISSN 2626-6504

Overview
Volumes

The series Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes wants to provide an interdisciplinary forum for research on mass violence and genocide during the "short" 20th century. It will highlight the role of state and non-state actors, the perspectives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders, and put violent events of the Age of Extremes in a larger political, social, and most important, cultural context. Anthologies and monographs will provide academic and non-academic readers with a deep insight into and a better understanding for the reasons, the acts, and the consequences or mass violence and genocide from a global perspective.

Titles of the series will be published in print and OPEN ACCESS.

Advisory Board:

Omer Bartov (Brown University)

Wolfgang Benz (TU Berlin)

Elissa　Bemporad　(Queens College, CUNY)

Nida Kirmani (LUMS, Pakistan)

Thomas Kühne (Clark University)

Michael Pfeifer (John and Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY)

Jürgen Zimmerer (University of Hamburg)

Topics

Book Open Access 2023

Genocidal Violence

Concepts, Forms, Impact

Frank Jacob, Kim Sebastian Todzi

Volume 6 in this series

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This volume offers an introduction about theoretical concepts, forms, and the impact of genocidal violence. It thereby intends to serve as a source of texts that can be used in a variety of introductory courses on genocide and the violence that occurs during genocidal events in particular. It will consequently also offer a survey on debates and recent research about the history, sociology and psychology of violence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110781328
ISBN:: 9783110781328
ISBN:: 9783110781380
ISBN:: 9783110780703
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Military History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2024

Narratives Without Guilt

Japanese Perpetrators and the Question of Responsibility

Frank Jacob

Volume 5 in this series

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During the Second World War Japanese soldiers committed several different war crimes, including the kidnapping and raping of women or the mistreatment of POWs. In relation to the war crime trials after 1945 these perpetrators were interviewed by the Allied powers and could reflect on their acts during the war. How they perceived their own role for the named eruptions of violence is the main focus of the present book. It takes a closer look at the self-perception and the apologetical narratives of war criminals within the Japanese Army to explain how ordinary Japanese men explained their crimes against humanitiy once the Second World War was over.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110731835
ISBN:: 9783110731835
ISBN:: 9783110737028
ISBN:: 9783110731897
Subject:: Asian and Pacific Studies
Subject:: East Asia
Subject:: Japan
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Military History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2021

Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children

Genocide and Displacement

Frank Jacob

Volume 4 in this series

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Ernst Papanek was an Austrian pedagogue who worked with Jewish refugee children in France in 1939/40, before he was forced to leave to the United States. There, he nevertheless continued his work to point out the impact of war, genocide and displacement on children, who were often forgotten in major discussions about the war and the losses it had created. This volume provides a short biographical outline of Papanek and a theoretical discussion about the impact of war and genocide on children who are forced out of their lives and who were not only physically displaced as a consequence. The second part of the book assembles some of Papanek's important texts about the children he had worked with and for, to make his thoughts and important considerations accessible for a broader academic and non-academic public alike.　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110679410
ISBN:: 9783110679410
ISBN:: 9783110679311
ISBN:: 9783110679502
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish History and Culture
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2020

Stories that Make History

The Experience and Memories of the Japanese Military ›Comfort Girls-Women‹

The Research Team of the War, Women’s Human Rights Center, Angella Son

Volume 3 in this series

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What would it be like if your existence was erased for half a century? This is the reality for the Korean comfort girls-women whose lives had been erased since the time of the expansion of comfort stations by the Japanese military in 1937. This book is an effort to bring these women back to life and to make their voices, experiences and memories available to future generations. The experiences of Korean comfort girls-women are a paradigmatic example of how military sexual violence can obliterate the dignity of women and shame them into nonexistence. This book examines how the turning of their innocence into inadequacy, actively by the Japanese government and passively by the Korean government and its people, and also by the world, compounded their long, miserable suffering for half a century until Kim Hak-sun broke the silence in 1991 with the support of Korean activists. The relentless and courageous efforts of Korean comfort girls-women and activists on the road to healing and justice are shared here. These efforts made it possible for us to hear their horrific stories, which are embedded with numerous and intense traumas, allowing them to unfold and be shared on the road to justice and healing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670523
ISBN:: 9783110670523
ISBN:: 9783110670295
ISBN:: 9783110670615
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2020

The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery

Pyong Gap Min, Thomas R. Chung, Sejung Sage Yim

Volume 2 in this series

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This book examines the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery in South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. comprehensively. The Japanese military forcefully mobilized about 80,000-200,000 Asian women to Japanese military brothels and forced them into sexual slavery during the Asian-Pacific War (1932-1945). Korean "comfort women" are believed to have been the largest group because of Korea’s colonial status. The redress movement for the victims started in South Korea in the late 1980s. The emergence of Korean "comfort women" to society to tell the truth beginning in 1991 and the discovery of Japanese historical documents, proving the responsibility of the Japanese military for establishing and operating military brothels by a Japanese historian in 1992 accelerated the redress movement for the victims. The movement has received strong support from UN human rights bodies, the U.S. and other Western countries. It has also greatly contributed to raising people’s consciousness of sexual violence against women at war. However, the Japanese government has not made a sincere apology and compensation to the victims to bring justice to the victims.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480
ISBN:: 9783110643480
ISBN:: 9783110763744
ISBN:: 9783110639872
ISBN:: 9783110639704
Subject:: Asian and Pacific Studies
Subject:: East Asia
Subject:: Japan
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Gender History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2019

Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia

An Introductory Reader

Frank Jacob

Volume 1 in this series

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In Asia the "Age of Extremes" witnessed many forms of mass violence and genocide, related to the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the proxy wars of the Cold War, and the anti-colonial nation building processes that often led to new conflicts and civil wars. The present volume is considered an introductory reader that deals with different forms of mass violence and genocide in Asia, discusses the perspectives of victims and perpetrators alike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110659054
ISBN:: 9783110659054
ISBN:: 9783110655100
ISBN:: 9783110645293
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg