Beschrijving
This course focuses on genocide, a centuries-old phenomenon that was not labelled as such until after the Holocaust in the twentieth century, and which has since presented enormous challenges to international law and the international community. The first thing that comes to mind when Europeans think of genocide is the Holocaust, however this course also aims to analyse other instances of genocide: the Ottoman violence against the Armenian population, as well as more recent cases, such as genocides in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Cambodia. Comparisons of these genocides, ‘The Big Five’ in the field of genocidestudies, will bring to light differences and similarities, continuities and parallel developments. This will provide students with tools to analyse and better understand other, lesser known or still debatable instances of genocide.This course focuses on secondary literature: students are introduced to the rich tradition of historiography in this field of research and learn to apply conceptual and theoretical criticism, based on concrete cases set in the various continents and spanning the full length of the twentieth century. In their final paper, students undertake an in-depth study of a specific case.
| Periode | 01 feb. 2021 → 30 apr. 2021 |
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| Mate van erkenning | Nationaal |