Ernesto Verdeja
Biographic Data
| ID | 349682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernesto Verdeja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernesto |
| FAMILY NAME | Verdeja |
| SIGNATURE | VERDEJA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0482-2936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Visual narratives and political instability
The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises
I will write: Creator of Death, leave me alone for a while ... let me be1The Israeli annihilation of Gaza that began on 7 October 2023 has illuminated the ways in which power, law, and norms operate
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing
Why do states initiate mass killing campaigns against their civilian populations? What explains the timing of state-led mass killing? Extant research has developed a sophisticated understanding of the general social, political, and economic conditions that elevate a country's risk of state-led mass killing. However, these conditions—which include factors such as regime type and ongoing civil war—are relatively static and cannot explain why violen…
Critical Genocide Studies and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Critical genocide studies has emerged as an important strand of scholarship devoted to interrogating the core assumptions of the field of genocide studies. Drawing on these developments, this article outlines a critical approach to modern atrocity prevention that is self-reflective, dialectical, multivalent, and anti-teleological. Part I provides a brief overview of contemporary prevention. Part II elaborates the four elements of the proposed cri…
Political reconciliation in postcolonial settler societies
This article presents a theory of reconciliation for postcolonial settler societies. It asks: what are the scope, substance and limitations of a normative theory of political reconciliation for historical wrongs in these societies? The article begins with an assessment of communitarian and agonistic theories and then outlines an alternative based on mutual respect, which includes three core elements: critical reflection, symbolic and material rec…
Predicting Genocide and Mass Atrocities
This article examines several current risk assessment and early warning models to predict genocide and mass atrocities. Risk assessment (RA) concerns a country’s long-term structural conditions (regime type, state-led discrimination, etc.) that determine overall risk for atrocities. Early warning (EW) focuses on short/midterm dynamics that can serve as triggers. The article evaluates contemporary RA and EW forecast modeling, and asks: How well c…
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Genocide Matters
On Situating the Study of Genocide within Political Violence 1
This article identifies a particular challenge for comparative genocide studies, namely the underemphasis of investigation into the relationship between genocide and other forms of political violence and the ways in which they are related temporally and spatially.It advocates situating genocide studies within the broader domain of political violence research to explain not only the causes of genocide but general variation in violent outcomes.By s…
The Political Science of Genocide
Over the past two decades, scholars have generated a large and sophisticated literature on genocide. Nevertheless, there are still several research areas that require further work. This article outlines a research agenda that analyzes the conditions under which genocide is likely to occur, the multilevel processes of violent escalation and de-escalation, and the ways in which these processes are shaped by, connect to, reinforce, accelerate and im…
Genocide
In the decades after World War Two, most scholars working on genocide focused on particular cases, providing historically detailed descriptions of the causes and patterns of mass violence but rarely branching out beyond a specific case. The study of the Holocaust is typical of this; the vast majority of works on the Nazi genocide had little comparative dimension and instead examined the ways in which anti-Semitism and certain policies condemned d…
Narrating Evil
Adorno’s Mimesis and its Limitations for Critical Social Thought
Adorno’s philosophy has enjoyed a resurgence of attention in political theory over the past decade. In this paper, I challenge contemporary efforts to adopt his critical theory by arguing that his conceptions of mimesis and negative dialectics, which are central to his thought, are ultimately unsatisfactory. I begin by critiquing the normative content of the negative dialectic, and then move on to explore its problematic relation with mimesis. In…
A Critical Theory of Reparative Justice
Reparations in Democratic Transitions
Derrida and the Impossibility of Forgiveness
Law, Terrorism, and the Plenary Power Doctrine
On genocide
Genocide was the scourge of the twentieth century, a modern-day plague of human agents causing death and suffering in the name of a higher,utopic ideology. This article proposes a theoretical account of genocide which identifies five causal factors: a profoundly segmented society with distinct political cleavages; rapid and profound social change; an exclusivist political ideology that gives prominence to these political cleavages; state capacity…
The Political Science of Genocide
Over the past two decades, scholars have generated a large and sophisticated literature on genocide. Nevertheless, there are still several research areas that require further work. This article outlines a research agenda that analyzes the conditions under which genocide is likely to occur, the multilevel processes of violent escalation and de-escalation, and the ways in which these processes are shaped by, connect to, reinforce, accelerate and im…
A Critical Theory of Reparative Justice
Political reconciliation in postcolonial settler societies
This article presents a theory of reconciliation for postcolonial settler societies. It asks: what are the scope, substance and limitations of a normative theory of political reconciliation for historical wrongs in these societies? The article begins with an assessment of communitarian and agonistic theories and then outlines an alternative based on mutual respect, which includes three core elements: critical reflection, symbolic and material rec…
Derrida and the Impossibility of Forgiveness
Adorno’s Mimesis and its Limitations for Critical Social Thought
Adorno’s philosophy has enjoyed a resurgence of attention in political theory over the past decade. In this paper, I challenge contemporary efforts to adopt his critical theory by arguing that his conceptions of mimesis and negative dialectics, which are central to his thought, are ultimately unsatisfactory. I begin by critiquing the normative content of the negative dialectic, and then move on to explore its problematic relation with mimesis. In…
Reparations in Democratic Transitions
On genocide
Genocide was the scourge of the twentieth century, a modern-day plague of human agents causing death and suffering in the name of a higher,utopic ideology. This article proposes a theoretical account of genocide which identifies five causal factors: a profoundly segmented society with distinct political cleavages; rapid and profound social change; an exclusivist political ideology that gives prominence to these political cleavages; state capacity…
Predicting Genocide and Mass Atrocities
This article examines several current risk assessment and early warning models to predict genocide and mass atrocities. Risk assessment (RA) concerns a country’s long-term structural conditions (regime type, state-led discrimination, etc.) that determine overall risk for atrocities. Early warning (EW) focuses on short/midterm dynamics that can serve as triggers. The article evaluates contemporary RA and EW forecast modeling, and asks: How well c…
Visual narratives and political instability
The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises
I will write: Creator of Death, leave me alone for a while ... let me be1The Israeli annihilation of Gaza that began on 7 October 2023 has illuminated the ways in which power, law, and norms operate
On Situating the Study of Genocide within Political Violence 1
This article identifies a particular challenge for comparative genocide studies, namely the underemphasis of investigation into the relationship between genocide and other forms of political violence and the ways in which they are related temporally and spatially.It advocates situating genocide studies within the broader domain of political violence research to explain not only the causes of genocide but general variation in violent outcomes.By s…
Law, Terrorism, and the Plenary Power Doctrine
Critical Genocide Studies and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Critical genocide studies has emerged as an important strand of scholarship devoted to interrogating the core assumptions of the field of genocide studies. Drawing on these developments, this article outlines a critical approach to modern atrocity prevention that is self-reflective, dialectical, multivalent, and anti-teleological. Part I provides a brief overview of contemporary prevention. Part II elaborates the four elements of the proposed cri…
Genocide
In the decades after World War Two, most scholars working on genocide focused on particular cases, providing historically detailed descriptions of the causes and patterns of mass violence but rarely branching out beyond a specific case. The study of the Holocaust is typical of this; the vast majority of works on the Nazi genocide had little comparative dimension and instead examined the ways in which anti-Semitism and certain policies condemned d…
Narrating Evil
Law, Terrorism, and the Plenary Power Doctrine
On genocide
Genocide was the scourge of the twentieth century, a modern-day plague of human agents causing death and suffering in the name of a higher,utopic ideology. This article proposes a theoretical account of genocide which identifies five causal factors: a profoundly segmented society with distinct political cleavages; rapid and profound social change; an exclusivist political ideology that gives prominence to these political cleavages; state capacity…
Derrida and the Impossibility of Forgiveness
Reparations in Democratic Transitions
A Critical Theory of Reparative Justice
Narrating Evil
Adorno’s Mimesis and its Limitations for Critical Social Thought
Adorno’s philosophy has enjoyed a resurgence of attention in political theory over the past decade. In this paper, I challenge contemporary efforts to adopt his critical theory by arguing that his conceptions of mimesis and negative dialectics, which are central to his thought, are ultimately unsatisfactory. I begin by critiquing the normative content of the negative dialectic, and then move on to explore its problematic relation with mimesis. In…
Genocide
In the decades after World War Two, most scholars working on genocide focused on particular cases, providing historically detailed descriptions of the causes and patterns of mass violence but rarely branching out beyond a specific case. The study of the Holocaust is typical of this; the vast majority of works on the Nazi genocide had little comparative dimension and instead examined the ways in which anti-Semitism and certain policies condemned d…
On Situating the Study of Genocide within Political Violence 1
This article identifies a particular challenge for comparative genocide studies, namely the underemphasis of investigation into the relationship between genocide and other forms of political violence and the ways in which they are related temporally and spatially.It advocates situating genocide studies within the broader domain of political violence research to explain not only the causes of genocide but general variation in violent outcomes.By s…
The Political Science of Genocide
Over the past two decades, scholars have generated a large and sophisticated literature on genocide. Nevertheless, there are still several research areas that require further work. This article outlines a research agenda that analyzes the conditions under which genocide is likely to occur, the multilevel processes of violent escalation and de-escalation, and the ways in which these processes are shaped by, connect to, reinforce, accelerate and im…
Genocide Matters
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Predicting Genocide and Mass Atrocities
This article examines several current risk assessment and early warning models to predict genocide and mass atrocities. Risk assessment (RA) concerns a country’s long-term structural conditions (regime type, state-led discrimination, etc.) that determine overall risk for atrocities. Early warning (EW) focuses on short/midterm dynamics that can serve as triggers. The article evaluates contemporary RA and EW forecast modeling, and asks: How well c…
Political reconciliation in postcolonial settler societies
This article presents a theory of reconciliation for postcolonial settler societies. It asks: what are the scope, substance and limitations of a normative theory of political reconciliation for historical wrongs in these societies? The article begins with an assessment of communitarian and agonistic theories and then outlines an alternative based on mutual respect, which includes three core elements: critical reflection, symbolic and material rec…
Critical Genocide Studies and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Critical genocide studies has emerged as an important strand of scholarship devoted to interrogating the core assumptions of the field of genocide studies. Drawing on these developments, this article outlines a critical approach to modern atrocity prevention that is self-reflective, dialectical, multivalent, and anti-teleological. Part I provides a brief overview of contemporary prevention. Part II elaborates the four elements of the proposed cri…
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing
Why do states initiate mass killing campaigns against their civilian populations? What explains the timing of state-led mass killing? Extant research has developed a sophisticated understanding of the general social, political, and economic conditions that elevate a country's risk of state-led mass killing. However, these conditions—which include factors such as regime type and ongoing civil war—are relatively static and cannot explain why violen…
Visual narratives and political instability
The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises
I will write: Creator of Death, leave me alone for a while ... let me be1The Israeli annihilation of Gaza that began on 7 October 2023 has illuminated the ways in which power, law, and norms operate
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