Dr Claire Moon STC S109

This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society, BSc in Social Policy and Sociology and BSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.

Sociology students will be given priority.

This course cannot be taken in conjunction with IR312 Genocide.

This course is capped.

No specific pre-requisites, but this is open only to 2nd and 3rd year students in Sociology and other programmes. It is not available as a 1st year option.

The course will cover a number of issues relevant to the study of atrocity and justice for atrocity. It looks at the social construction of atrocities, the Genocide Convention, structural approaches to understanding genocide (modernity, democracy and colonial rule), the perpetrators. victims and witnesses of atrocity, the problem of denial of state crimes, historical injustices in Australia, Canada and the US, forensic investigations of atrocity, retributive and restorative approaches to justice for atrocity, truth commissions and war crimes tribunals. 

This course is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars and online materials totalling a minimum of 20 hours in the LT, with 2 hours in the ST.

Reading Weeks: Students on this course will have a reading week in LT Week 6, in line with departmental policy.

1 x formative essay of 1500 words.

Arendt, Hannah (1994) Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin Books)

Bauman, Zygmunt (1989) Modernity and the Holocaust (Cambridge: Polity)

Browning, Christopher (1992) Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 (New York: HarperCollins):

Cohen, Stan (2001) States of Denial (Cambridge: Polity Press)

Hacking, Ian (1999) The Social Construction of What? (Cambridge: Harvard University Press)

Jones, Adam (2011) Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, 2nd edition (London: Routledge)

Wilson, Richard (2001) The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Take-home assessment (100%) in the ST.

Attendance at all classes and submission of all set coursework is required.