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Podcast: New Books in Genocide Studies
Episode: Maureen S. Hiebert, "Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence: Society, Crisis, Identity" (Routledge, 2017)
Description: How can this happen? If there's any question that people interested in genocide ask, it's this one. How can people do this to each other? How can this be possible? What is wrong with this world that this can happen?Maureen Hiebert's book Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence: Society, Crisis, Identity (Routledge, 2017) offers an answer to this question. Hiebert is a political scientist and approaches the subject through that lens. She reminds us that societies engage in genocide because it offers the most plausible answer to their dilemma, but that many others in the same situation have...