On the Social History of Persecution

book: On the Social History of Persecution

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

On the Social History of Persecution

Edited by: Christian Gerlach
Funded by: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789690

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About this book

This multi-disciplinary volume is one of the few collections about social change covering various cases of mass violence and genocide. In life under persecution, social relations and social structures were not absent and not simply replaced by an ethno-racial order. The studies in this book show the influence of social structures like gender, age and class on life under persecution. Exploring practices in family and labor relations and of collective action, they counter claims of an atomization of society or total uprootedness of victims. Despite being exposed to poverty and want and under the permanent threat of political violence, persecuted people tried to develop their own agency. Case studies are about the Jewish and Armenian persecutions, Rwanda, the war of decolonization in Mozambique and civilian refuges in Belarus during World War II. The authors are a mix of experienced scholars and young researchers.

Author / Editor information

Christian Gerlach, University Bern, Switzerland.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Social histories of persecution and mass violence Christian Gerlach Open Access Download PDF	1
Labor
Strategies of survival: Genocide and Armenian deportee labor, 1915–1918 Hilmar Kaiser Open Access Download PDF	15
Comparing Jewish labor in Poland, 1942–1945, and Armenian labor in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1918 Christian Gerlach Open Access Download PDF	35
Family
The family under duress: A male perspective Dalia Ofer Open Access Download PDF	51
“He was in our home like our own child”: Discourses of surrogacy and family relations after the Holocaust Natalia Aleksiun Open Access Download PDF	71
Displacement
Strangers in a strange land: Refugees in Belarusian society under German occupation (1941–1944) Masha Cerovic Open Access Download PDF	91
Caught between the guerrilla and the colonial state: Refugee life in Northern Mozambique during the Independence War (1964–1974) Andreas Zeman Open Access Download PDF	115
Space
Space and place: Placing everyday life during the Holocaust Tim Cole Open Access Download PDF	139
Hiding in the attic: Sounds and social situation Nikita Hock Open Access Download PDF	157
Collective action
Auditory quarrels, rage and collective action: A street singer and his audience within the web of the ghetto society Janina Wurbs Open Access Download PDF	183
People Fell Like Flies: How Yiddish songs document history and collective action during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union Anna Shternshis Open Access Download PDF	197
Mass violence as a social process
A local history of the Sobibór death camp and Nazi occupation Jason Tingler Open Access Download PDF	223
Society after violence
Orphans building homes: Forgotten remnants of the Armenian deportations in South Jordan Anna Ohannessian-Charpin Open Access Download PDF	243
List of authors Open Access Download PDF	267
Index Open Access Download PDF	269

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Academics in the field of mass violence and genocide, history, anthropology and sociology.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 291
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Genocide; 20th century; global history

eBook

Published: March 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110789690

Hardcover

Published: March 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110789669