Dear All,
I wanted to draw your attention to the upcoming Call for Papers for a
special issue of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, “Beyond Cumulative
Radicalization? A Comparative Perspective.”
I am pasting below the call by two guest editors, Robert Braun and Scott
Straus, available also here:
https://academic.oup.com/hgs/pages/beyond-cumulative-radicalization-a-comparative-perspective
.
The deadline for abstract submission is July 1, 2024.
Kind regards,
Kasia
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Kasia Nalewajko
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Collegio Carlo Alberto
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How and why do policies of mass violence and genocide emerge? This special
issue aims to build on and challenge an influential model developed in
Holocaust Studies, that of “cumulative radicalization,” by placing that
model in comparative perspective. Cumulative radicalization is anchored in
the idea that, informed by animating but ultimately somewhat vague ideas
from the Nazi leadership, sub-national officials interpreted instructions,
competed with their peers, and invented policies of violence in the field.
It highlights interactions between national decisionmakers and sub-national
actors, inquiring whether and how their actions mutually constitute one
another and drive escalation of policies of violence.
Recent advances in Holocaust studies have driven home the point that
cumulative radicalization is context specific in at least two ways. First,
whether cumulative radicalization manifests itself or not differs from one
place to the other. Second, it might take a wide range of different forms
involving a wide range of different local actors.
We invite papers that address the question of whether and how models of
“cumulative radicalization” take place in different cases of genocide and
mass violence. Papers should draw on detailed knowledge of cases to address
four main questions:
- Under what circumstances do policies escalate in the cases of mass
violence you study?
- What is the interaction between central-level and local-level actors in
the emergence of policies of mass violence in the cases that you study? And
who are these actors? Are the sub-national actors indeed local, or
peripheral, or are they subordinate agents of national actors?
- Do you see evidence for cumulative radicalization in the cases you
study? How would you conceptualize radicalization in your case?
- To draw inspiration, the guest editors have developed four models of
radicalization in an accompanying memo. Do these four models work in
explaining the radicalization violence in the cases you know well? Is there
a different model that you see? The models need not be mutually exclusive.
Abstracts should be sent to guest editors, Robert Braun (
robert.braun@berkeley.edu) and Scott Straus (sstraus@berkeley.edu), by July
1, 2024, with complete drafts expected by October 1, 2024.
Dear All,
I wanted to draw your attention to the upcoming Call for Papers for a
special issue of *Holocaust and Genocide Studies*, “Beyond Cumulative
Radicalization? A Comparative Perspective.”
I am pasting below the call by two guest editors, Robert Braun and Scott
Straus, available also here:
https://academic.oup.com/hgs/pages/beyond-cumulative-radicalization-a-comparative-perspective
.
The deadline for abstract submission is July 1, 2024.
Kind regards,
Kasia
--
*Kasia Nalewajko*
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Collegio Carlo Alberto
—————————
How and why do policies of mass violence and genocide emerge? This special
issue aims to build on and challenge an influential model developed in
Holocaust Studies, that of “cumulative radicalization,” by placing that
model in comparative perspective. Cumulative radicalization is anchored in
the idea that, informed by animating but ultimately somewhat vague ideas
from the Nazi leadership, sub-national officials interpreted instructions,
competed with their peers, and invented policies of violence in the field.
It highlights interactions between national decisionmakers and sub-national
actors, inquiring whether and how their actions mutually constitute one
another and drive escalation of policies of violence.
Recent advances in Holocaust studies have driven home the point that
cumulative radicalization is context specific in at least two ways. First,
whether cumulative radicalization manifests itself or not differs from one
place to the other. Second, it might take a wide range of different forms
involving a wide range of different local actors.
We invite papers that address the question of whether and how models of
“cumulative radicalization” take place in different cases of genocide and
mass violence. Papers should draw on detailed knowledge of cases to address
four main questions:
1. Under what circumstances do policies escalate in the cases of mass
violence you study?
2. What is the interaction between central-level and local-level actors in
the emergence of policies of mass violence in the cases that you study? And
who are these actors? Are the sub-national actors indeed local, or
peripheral, or are they subordinate agents of national actors?
3. Do you see evidence for cumulative radicalization in the cases you
study? How would you conceptualize radicalization in your case?
4. To draw inspiration, the guest editors have developed four models of
radicalization in an accompanying memo. Do these four models work in
explaining the radicalization violence in the cases you know well? Is there
a different model that you see? The models need not be mutually exclusive.
Abstracts should be sent to guest editors, Robert Braun (
robert.braun@berkeley.edu) and Scott Straus (sstraus@berkeley.edu), by July
1, 2024, with complete drafts expected by October 1, 2024.