Description: Exploring the tensions between the rigid legal definition of genocide and the manifold realities researchers have discovered, this comprehensive text offers innovative solutions to address the limitations of the genocide concept, while preserving its usefulness as an analytical framework.
Brief description: Andrea Graziosi is professor of history at Università di Napoli.
Review Quotes: "The field of genocide research has become confusing, even for experts, due to the high number of annual publications. An edited volume that explores the general significance and problems of the concept of genocide across disciplinary boundaries is therefore very welcome. The editors have chosen contributors who are experts in the field, be they seasoned scholars or relative newcomers who have been doing ground-breaking work on the subject. All have a slightly different view and approach to the concept of genocide, which is what makes this book so exciting." Alexa Stiller, University of Zurich and co-editor of Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography