This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). This course cannot be taken in conjunction with SO309 Atrocity and Justice.
This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). This course cannot be taken in conjunction with SO309 Atrocity and Justice.
This course is delivered through ten 2-hour classes totaling a minimum of 20 hours in Lent Term. This year, some or all of this teaching will be delivered through a combination of in-person classes/classes delivered online. Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
Students are required to research and write one formative essay (1,000 words) due in Week 7 of Lent Term. Essays must be fully - and carefully - referenced using one of the major conventions consistently.
Lee Ann Fujii, Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021). Christian Gerlach, The Extermination of the European Jews (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). Jens Meierhenrich, Genocide: A Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). A. Dirk Moses, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Diane M. Nelson, Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015). G?rard Prunier, Africa?s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Sean R. Roberts, The War on the Uyghurs: China?s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020). William A. Schabas, Genocide in International Law: The Crimes of Crimes, Second edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Essay (100%, 4000 words) in the ST. Essays must be fully - and carefully - referenced using one of the major conventions consistently.