Dr Claire Moon

This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society and BSc in Sociology. This course is not available as an outside option. This course is available with permission to General Course students.

• This course is not available as a first-year option.
• This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
• This course cannot be taken in conjunction with IR312 Genocide.

This course introduces undergraduate students to a range of issues relevant to the study of mass atrocity and to justice for atrocity from a range of perspectives, from sociological to historical, so social psychological and philosophical.

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 WT, with 2 hours in the ST.

Reading Weeks: Students on this course will have a reading week in WT 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.

The take home assessment will be a take home exam (2 questions) in the spring exam period, to be taken within a specified 5-day window. A copy to be uploaded to Moodle by the submission deadline.

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