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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 10h

We published the open access paper “Genocidal Surveillant Assemblage in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis,” by Mais Qandeel and Özgün Erdener Topak, as part of the forum “Gaza: International Humanitarian Law and Genocide,” on October 8, 2025.
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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 4d

"Kwibuka and its Silencing of Trauma: How Reconciliation Initiatives Became Narratives of Violence" by Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod tinyurl.com/3e426bre
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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 4d

"The Ovaherero and Nama People’s Struggle for Restorative Justice: An Activist-Scholar Lens" by Kaya Alice de Wolff and Jephta U. Nguherimo tinyurl.com/mwr4ksru

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 4d

We added three articles on October 5, 2025: "Gazan Digital Storytellers: Popular Micronarratives Confronting Genocide" by Saleh Masharqa from our forum on Israel-Palestine. tinyurl.com/yc7td3zm

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 8d

We published the open access article 'Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War' by Siniša Malešević and Lea David in our forum on Israel-Palestine on May 11.
tinyurl.com/st55f868

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 9d

The journal published the open-access research article ‘“Can a Christian also be a 100 per cent National Socialist?”: The Holocaust, the Wehrmacht and Religious Faith’ by Olov Simonsson in April 2025. tinyurl.com/3e6kxktn

Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 12d

The journal published: "Lineages of Genocide in Sudan" by Alex de Waal in April 2025. You can access it from our official website. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 12d

On Sept. 25, the journal published open access paper "Clerical Sovereignty and its Absolute Others: Religious Genocide in Iran" by Shahin Nasiri. tinyurl.com/2pk33ems

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 14d

Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece.
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Israel’s Displacement/Immobility Nexus in Palestine

This post is authored by Dr. Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies at UCL and the author of 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 16d

Sara Roy has written a deeply poignant and painful piece in @journalgenocide.bsky.social and I hope you will read it: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If it’s Not About Gaza, Then it’s About Nothing

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 17d

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Starvation in Contexts of Mass Violence and Genocide. Please see the attached notice for full details.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 22d

I've published 'The Genocide that Changed the World', my fullest overview of Israel's genocide and its implications, as part of a new roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies from @journalgenocide.bsky.social

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The Genocide that Changed the World

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 21d

The @journalgenocide.bsky.social has a new Roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies. My introduction is freely available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 21d

We have published discussions from our roundtable: ’Gaza and Genocide Studies.’ The reports were written prior to the United Nation’s Independent International Commission found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. The majority of publications open access: tinyurl.com/3ce3cazz

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 25d

We have published open access reflection paper: “Which Lessons are to be Learned from the Holocaust? A Personal Account of the History of the IHRA 2000–2025 from the Viewpoint of a Memory Scholar” by Aleida Assmann. tinyurl.com/y739ybdd

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 29d

In our Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, we have published “The Practice of Siege Warfare: Reckoning with War, Genocide and Settler Colonialism in Palestine” by @unamcgahern.bsky.social.
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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · Sep 4

In our forum: 'Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh: Famine, Memory, Security, and the Question of Genocide' we published research paper 'Gazafication and Genocide by Attrition in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh and the Occupied Palestinian Territories' by Elyse Semerdjian in July 2024. tinyurl.com/53x9mrtp

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · Sep 2

#OpenAccess: In our forum on "Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes & the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" we published "Prosthetic Trauma at the Nova Exhibition: Holocaust Memory, Reenactment, & the Affective Reproduction of Genocidal Nightmares" by @bratskoff.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3uymcbjj

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · Sep 1

The open access research paper "Holocaust Memory and the Universal Sovereignty of the Liberal Democratic State" by UK-based Edge Hill University Prof. James Renton was published by JGR's in June. tinyurl.com/y4nyjvbe

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · Aug 31

On Aug. 28, we published open access research article "Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia" by @lanabi.bsky.social, @denisakost.bsky.social and Timothy William Waters. Read the full article: tinyurl.com/h27fecv2

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Lanabi @lanabi.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨⚖️🔍 New paper in Journal of Genocide Research with @denisakost.bsky.social & Timothy Waters we studied secrecy in Serbia’s war crimes trials.
📑Corpus of 164 judgements (1999–2019). Tried OCR+quant methods, but chaotic redactions made it impossible. So we wrote a descriptive, mixed-methods paper

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · Aug 30

Stay tuned: The journal will publish few more works under the same book forum later this year.

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · Aug 30

In 2025 we ran a book forum: "Fazil Moradi, Being Human: Political Modernity & Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq". On June 18, we published: "Reflections on Fazil Moradi’s Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" by Stephen McLoughlin. You access it here: tinyurl.com/56fj8wpy

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · Aug 29

On July 4, JGR published "Genocide in Syria, Gaza, and Beyond: An interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh" by @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social . You can access from our official website. tinyurl.com/5pad2a82

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · Aug 28

On July 9, JGR published open access research article 'Civilizing the Village. Race, Progress and Genocide in Wartime Slovakia' by Hana Kubátová from @charlesuni.cuni.cz. Read the full article here: tinyurl.com/mt8aph3r

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