The Hugo Valentin Centre
Master Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Social Mechanisms of Violence
Schedule 2012
Week
Lectures/Seminars
Date
Day
Time
Teacher
13 [1]
Introduction
L
March 26
Mon
10-12
JS, KM
14 [2]
General Theory
L
April 2
Mon
10-12
JS
14 [2]
General Theory
L
April 4
Wed
10-12
JS
16 [4]
Violence in War
S
April 18
Wed
10-12
KM
18 [6]
Case: Holocaust
S
May 2
Wed
10-12
JS
19 [7]
Arendt: Banality of Evil
L
May 7
Mon
10-11
JS
19 [7]
Case: Rwanda/My Lai
S
May 9
Wed
10-12
JS
20 [8]
Theories of Violence
L
May 14
Mon
10-12
KM
20 [8]
Theories of Violence
L
May 16
Wed
10-12
KM
21 [9]
Theories of Violence
S
May 21
Mon
10-12
JS
21 [9]
Theories of Violence
S
May 23
Wed
10-12
KM
22[10]
Submit paper
June 1
Fri
JS
KM
Jelena Spasenić
Kjell Magnusson
Room
The Hugo Valentin Centre
Master Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Social Mechanisms of Violence
Literature
General Overview
Waller, James. 2002. Becoming Evil. How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pp. 133-279
Mazower, Mark. 2002. "Violence and the State in the Twentieth Century." The American Historical
Review 107:1158-1178.
Eisner, Manuel. 2009. "The Uses of Violence: An Examination of Some Cross-Cutting Issues."
International Journal of Conflict and Violence 3:40-59.
Case Studies
Holocaust
Browning, Christopher, R. 1993. Ordinary Men. Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution
in Poland. New York: Harper Collins.
Gross, Jan T. 2001. Neighbors. The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. (pp. 14-22, 72-110)
Rwanda
Fletcher, Luke. 2007. "Turning interahamwe: individual and community choices in the Rwandan
genocide." Journal of Genocide Research 9:25 - 48.
Smeulers, Alette, and Lotte Hoex. 2010. "Studying the Microdynamics of the Rwandan Genocide."
British Journal of Criminology 50:435-454.
Straus, Scott. 2007. "What Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking
Rwanda's "Radio Machete"." Politics Society 35:609-637.
My Lai
Hersh, Seymour M. 1970. "My Lai 4. A Report on the Massacre and its Aftermath." in Harper's
Magazine: The Vietnam Center and Archive http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/QuickSearch.php?srch=my%20lai.
Oliver, Kendrick. 2003. "Atrocity, Authenticity and American Exceptionalism: (Ir)rationalising the
Massacre at My Lai." Journal of American Studies 37:247-268.
Doris, J. M., and D. Murphy. 2007. "From My Lai to Abu Ghraib: The Moral Psychology of Atrocity."
Midwest Studies In Philosophy 31:25-55.
Violence in War
Bourke, Joanna. 2006. "War and Violence." Thesis Eleven 86:23-38.
Jones, Edgar. 2006. "The Psychology of Killing: The Combat Experience of British Soldiers during
the First World War." Journal of Contemporary History 41:229-246.
Dwyer, Philip G. 2009. ""It Still Makes Me Shudder"." War in History 16:381-405.
Kreidie, Lina Haddad, and Kristen Renwick Monroe. 2002. "Psychological Boundaries and Ethnic
Conflict: How Identity Constrained Choice and Worked to Turn Ordinary People into
Perpetrators of Ethnic Violence During the Lebanese Civil War." International Journal of
Politics, Culture, and Society 16:5-36.
The Hugo Valentin Centre
Master Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Social Psychological Theories of Violence
Social Psychological Experiments
Milgram, Stanely. 1974. "The Dilemma of Obedience." The Phi Delta Kappan 55:603-606.
Milgram, Stanley. 1965. "Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority." Human
Relations 18:57-76.
Miller, Arthur G. 1995. "Constructions of the Obedience Experiments: A Focus Upon Domains of
Relevance." Journal of Social Issues 51:33-53.
Haney, C., W. C. Banks, and P. G. Zimbardo. 1973. "Interpersonal dynamics in a simulated prison."
International Journal of Criminology and Penology 1:69-97.
Zimbardo, P. G. 2004. "A Situationist Perspective on the Psychology of Evil: Understanding How
Good People Are Transformed into Perpetrators." Pp. 21-50 in The social psychology of good
and evil: Understanding our capacity for kindness and cruelty, edited by Arthur D. Miller.
New York: Guilford.
Zimbardo, P. G., C. Haney, W. C. Banks, and D. Jaffe. 1973. "The mind is a formidable jailer: A
Pirandellian prison." The New York Times Magazine:Section 6, 36 ff.
Russell, Nestar, and Robert Gregory. 2005. "Making the Undoable Doable." The American Review of
Public Administration 35:327-349.
Theoretical Issues
Arendt, Hannah 2006. Eichmann and the Holocaust. Penguin Books (Penguin Great Ideas). pp. 1-90
Bandura, Albert. 1999. "Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities." Personality and
Social Psychology Review 3:193-209.
Bar-Tal, D., E. Halperin, and J. De Rivera. 2007. "Collective Emotions in Conflict Situations: Societal
Implications." Journal of Social Issues 63:441-460.
Baumeister, Roy F., and W. Keith Campbell. 1999. "The Intrinsic Appeal of Evil: Sadism, Sensational
Thrills, and Threatened Egotism." Personality and Social Psychology Review 3:210-221.
Berkowitz, Leonard. 1999. "Evil Is More Than Banal: Situationism and the Concept of Evil."
Personality and Social Psychology Review 3:246-253.
Campbell, B. 2009. "Genocide as Social Control." Sociological Theory 27:150-172.
Haslam, Nick. 2006. "Dehumanization: An Integrative Review." Personality and Social
Psychology Review 10:252-264.
Haslam, S. Alexander, and Stephen Reicher. 2007. "Beyond the Banality of Evil: Three Dynamics of
an Interactionist Social Psychology of Tyranny." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
33:615-622.
Kallis, A. 2007. "‘Licence’ and Genocide in the East: Reflections on Localised Eliminationist
Violence during the First Stages of ‘Operation Barbarossa’ (1941)." Pp. 6-23: Blackwell
Publishing Ltd.
Kelman, H. G. 1973. "Violence without Moral Restraint: Reflections on the Dehumanization of
Victims and Victimizers." Journal of Social Issues 29:25-61.
Volpato, Chiara, and Alberta Contarello. 1999. "Towards a social psychology of extreme situations:
Primo Levi's If This is a Man and social identity theory." European Journal of Social
Psychology 29:239-258.
Roth, Paul A. 2004. "Hearts of darkness: "perpetrator history" and why there is no why." History of
the Human Sciences 17:211-251.
Zukier, Henri. 1994. "The Twisted Road to Genocide. On the Psychological Development of Evil
during the Holocaust." Social Research 63:1110-1153.
The Hugo Valentin Centre
Master Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
General Theoretical Perspectives
Social Identity Theory
Tajfel, Henri. 1974. "Social Identity and Intergroup Behaviour." Social Science Information 13:65-93.
Tajfel, Henri. 1978. "Social Categorization, Social Identity and Social Comparison. Differentiation
Between Social Groups." Pp. 61-76 in Studies in the Social Psychology of Intergroup
Relations, edited by Henri Tajfel. London: Academic Press.
Turner, John C. 1982. "Towards a cognitive redefinition of the social group." pp. 1-26 in Social
Identity and Intergroup Relations, edited by Henri Tajfel. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Turner, John C 1987c. "A Self-Categorization Theory." pp. 42-67 in Rediscovering the Social Group:
A Self-Categorization Theory, edited by John C. Turner, Michael A. Hogg, Penelope J. Oakes,
Stephen D. Reicher, and Margaret S. Wetherell. Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell.
Turner, John C. . 2005. "Explaining the nature of power: a three-process theory." European Journal of
Social Psychology 35:1-22.
Brewer, Marilynn B. 2001. "Ingroup Identification and Intergroup Conflict: When Does Ingroup Love
Become Outgroup Hate?" pp. 17-41 in Social Identity, Intergroup Conflict, and Conflict
Reduction, edited by Richard D. Ashmore, Lee Jussim, and David Wilder. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Symbolic Interactionism/Sociology of Knowledge
Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. 1967. The Social Construction of Reality : A Treatise in the
Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Anchor Books [reprint] (pp. 1-46, 129-183)
Stryker, Sheldon 2003 [1980]. Symbolic Interactionism : A Social Structural Version. Menlo Park,
Calif: Benjamin Cummings. (Chapter 3, pp.51-85
Social Cognitive Perspective
DiMaggio, Paul. 1997. "Culture and Cognition." Annual Review of Sociology 23:263-287.
Howard, Judith A. 1994. "A Social Cognitive Conception of Social Structure." Social Psychology
Quarterly 57:210-227..
Rational Chocie and Social/Political Behaviour
Green, Donald P., and Rachel L. Seher. 2003. "What Role does Prejudice play in Ethnic Conflict?"
Annual Review of Political Science 6:509-531.
Monroe, Kristen Renwick, and Kristen Hill Maher. 1995. "Psychology and Rational Actor Theory."
Political Psychology 16:1-21.