Perpetrator Studies Network

Bibliography

Leigh A. Payne, Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence - 2008

An analysis of confessional performances by state perpetrators in 4 countries.

Levene, Mark. “From Past to Future: Prospects for Genocide and Its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century”. - 2012

Discussion of the impact of climate change on possible scenarios of genocide

Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved - 1986

Book of essays on Holocaust; famous discussion of gray zone

Literature and Complicity; Then and Now by Adam Kelly and Will Norman - 2019

Overview of the connections between literature, complicity and capitalism.

Littell, Jonathan. The Kindly Ones [Les Bienveillantes] - 2006

Fictional autobiography by a non-repentant SS officer, based on historical facts

Loizos, Peter. “Intercommunal Killing in Cyprus.” - 1988

Analysis of a militant's motivations for killing civilians.

Mandel, Naomi. “Toward a New Complicity for New Media.” - 2019

Naomi Mandel situates theories on complicity in the context of new media

Margalit, Avishai. “The Moral Witness” in The Ethics of Memory. - 2002

Book chapter on the concept of the moral witness

McCoy, Jason. “Making Violence Ordinary: Radio, Music and the Rwandan Genocide” - 2009

On the role of radio and music in the Rwandan genocide of 1994

McGlothlin, Erin; Brad Prager and Markus Zisselsberger (eds.) The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and its Outtakes. - 2020

Analyzes the archive of over 200 hours of outtakes to Claude Lanzmann's Shoah.