Mark Levene
Biographic Data
| ID | 186831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Levene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Levene |
| SIGNATURE | LEVENE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8632-4732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Prequel to Global Catastrophe? The Dissolution of Minority Peoples Through the Lens of Climate Crisis
Gaza 2023: Words Matter, Lives Matter More
On 11 October, four days after the Hamas attack, I wrote the following unpublished letter to The Guardian: Genocide – the word has to be uttered, though it cannot be done with carelessness or flipp
The Holocaust Paradigm as Paradoxical Imperative in the Century of Anthropogenic Omnicide
The Holocaust and today's climate emergency are not obvious bed fellows. But the post-Holocaust mantra “never again” has also been voiced by some climate activists who see similarities in the failure of Western governments in the 1930s to act to stop Hitler and an equivalent failure now to effectively halt state and corporate drives to biospheric catastrophe. This article examines whether the way Western society has understood the Holocaust in re…
A stochastic differential equation approach to the analysis of the 2017 and 2019 UK general election polls
The Climate Emergency: A Statement from Genocide Scholars on the Necessity for a Paradigm Shift
Genocide scholarship is underpinned by an implicit revulsion at the suffering, violence and degradation perpetrated by human beings against other human beings. Those of us who work in the field may
A two-dimensional bibliometric index reflecting both quality and quantity
A multiplicative process for generating the rank-order distribution of UK election results
Genocide
By the 1750s a few regions of Western Europe were in the early stages of energy transition from plant fuels to fossil fuels and from animate prime movers to machines powered by combustion. Great powers of the past that continued to rely on traditional energy sources and on animate prime movers were swiftly left far behind: in aggregate terms China, with its large population, remained the world's largest economy until the 1880s. This chapter conce…
Genocidal Legacies of the Great War
[T]he war undoubtedly acted as a major catalyst to an aspect of the modern world we have seen time and time again, namely the mobilization of ethnic groups by great powers for their own geopolitical interests
Subsistence societies, globalisation, climate change and genocide: Discourses of vulnerability and resilience
Anthropogenic climate change poses the possibility of total human extinction. Subsistence societies, however, have been threatened with extinction primarily as a consequence of systemic development for a very long time. Recent genocide scholarship, more particularly in relation to indigenous peoples, has engaged with some of these issues, even while terminologies such as ethnocide, cultural genocide, and indigenocide may suggest a restricted f…
Purifying the nation: Population exchange and ethnic cleansing in Nazi-allied Romania
Transformative Space Amidst the Reality of Biospheric Emergency
Climate Blues: Or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History
The accumulating evidence on the depth and accelerating trajectory of anthropogenic climate change poses the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction. But if that is the case what does that mean for the latter day writing of history? Our response follows two main lines of thought. The first relates to the concept of the 'Anthropocene' and the possibilities that it offers historians to reconsider t…
From Past to Future
This article presents two scenarios that might have a huge influence for the prospects of genocide in the future: the carrying capacity of the planet and global warming. The key point about the pursuit of this theme is that the disruptive potential of climate change, whether writ small in terms of the single state, or writ large in terms of the international system, is entirely exponential. It also hints the necessity for a paradigmatic shift in …
Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedlander and the Future of Holocaust Studies
Nature's End: History and the Environment, ed. Sverker Sorlin and Paul Warde
‘Wilderness is a whitefella word’ (p. 203). In a pithy sort of way, the aboriginal bumper sticker which Libby Robin refers to in her Antipodean essay encapsulates the core argument at the heart of this volume. Nature's End at first sight sounds like another rendition of Bill McKibben's The End of Nature (1990) or, by further inference, a dire warning as to biospheric closure on the specifically human experience. Yet what editors Sverker Sorlin an…
No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
Beyond Gaddafi: Sustainable Prevention in the Face of Environmental Injustice: Some Words of Praise but Also Caution
The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialisation
An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation
Book synopsis: This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help us find information on the web. Search engines and web navigation tools have become ubiquitous in our day to day use of the web as an information source, a tool for commercial transactions and a social computing tool. Moreover, through the mobile web we have access to the web's services when we are on the move. This book demystifies the tools …
Jews, Britons, Empire: And How Things Might be Very Different
Offering a broad overview, this contribution seeks to consider why the radical tradition of Judaic-informed dissent has not only remained marginal in the Anglo-Jewish experience but why few researchers, if any, have sought to investigate further. It takes as its premise the urgency for the mobilisation of the radical tradition in this time of acute environmental crisis. However, its historical method is to attempt to apply Albert Hirschman's famo…
Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia: The Partisans and Chetniks, 1941–1943
Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia: The Partisans and Chetniks, 1941–1943 Marko Attila Hoare Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006 386 pp, £55.00 (hbk) Genocide studies, in its growing matu
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Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment * World Without End? Environmental Disaster and the Collapse of Empires
Historians for the Right to Work: We Demand a Continuing Supply of History
Nearly thirty years on from the second heightened phase of the nuclear arms race, science is informing of us of a new self-induced threat to our very existence on this planet, this time through anthropogenic climate change. This article seeks to make a link between the two threats and the way they have been presented to a wider public by elite policy makers and opinion formers. Back in 1980 Sir Michael Howard, a leading war historian, proposed th…
"Creating a Modern "Zone of Genocide: The Impact of Nation- and State-Formation on Eastern Anatolia, 1878-1923
The persistence of genocide or near-genocidal incidents from the 1890s through the 1990s, committed by Ottoman and successor Turkish and Iraqi states against Armenian, Kurdish, Assyrian, and Pontic Greek communities in Eastern Anatolia, is striking. This article traces the origins of these incidents by examining emerging Armenian, Turkish, and Kurdish national movements and their competition for the region's resources. It argues that the creation…
The Chittagong Hill Tracts: A case study in the political economy of 'creeping' genocide
The destruction of indigenous, tribal peoples in remote and/or frontier regions of the developing world is often assumed to be the outcome of inexorable, even inevitable forces of progress . People are not so much killed, they become extinct. Terms such as ethnocide, cultural genocide or developmental genocide suggest a distinct form of 'off the map' elimination which implicitly discourages comparison with other acknowledged examples of genocide.…
Perceptions of soil-eating and anaemia among pregnant women on the Kenyan coast
The Balfour Declaration: A Case of Mistaken Identity
The Balfour Declaration: A Case of Mistaken Identity MARK LEVENE MARK LEVENE Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXII, January 1992, Pages 54–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXII.54 Published: 01 January 1992
Nationalism and its Alternatives in the International Arena: The Jewish Question at Paris, 1919
The Holocaust Paradigm as Paradoxical Imperative in the Century of Anthropogenic Omnicide
The Holocaust and today's climate emergency are not obvious bed fellows. But the post-Holocaust mantra “never again” has also been voiced by some climate activists who see similarities in the failure of Western governments in the 1930s to act to stop Hitler and an equivalent failure now to effectively halt state and corporate drives to biospheric catastrophe. This article examines whether the way Western society has understood the Holocaust in re…
Subsistence societies, globalisation, climate change and genocide: Discourses of vulnerability and resilience
Anthropogenic climate change poses the possibility of total human extinction. Subsistence societies, however, have been threatened with extinction primarily as a consequence of systemic development for a very long time. Recent genocide scholarship, more particularly in relation to indigenous peoples, has engaged with some of these issues, even while terminologies such as ethnocide, cultural genocide, and indigenocide may suggest a restricted f…
The Limits of Tolerance: Nation–State Building and What It Means for Minority Groups
When we think of the most egregious forms of intolerance directed against minority communities we tend to associate them with particularly despicable regimes, such as Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, where racism, ideology or some special route to development is often held to blame, or where ultra-nationalism swamps positive tendencies towards democracy and a civil society. In this essay Levene proposes a partial corrective to this view with refere…
Climate Blues: Or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History
The accumulating evidence on the depth and accelerating trajectory of anthropogenic climate change poses the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction. But if that is the case what does that mean for the latter day writing of history? Our response follows two main lines of thought. The first relates to the concept of the 'Anthropocene' and the possibilities that it offers historians to reconsider t…
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture
The Climate Emergency: A Statement from Genocide Scholars on the Necessity for a Paradigm Shift
Genocide scholarship is underpinned by an implicit revulsion at the suffering, violence and degradation perpetrated by human beings against other human beings. Those of us who work in the field may
Jews, Britons, Empire: And How Things Might be Very Different
Offering a broad overview, this contribution seeks to consider why the radical tradition of Judaic-informed dissent has not only remained marginal in the Anglo-Jewish experience but why few researchers, if any, have sought to investigate further. It takes as its premise the urgency for the mobilisation of the radical tradition in this time of acute environmental crisis. However, its historical method is to attempt to apply Albert Hirschman's famo…
A Moving Target, the Usual Suspects and (Maybe) a Smoking Gun: The Problem of Pinning Blame in Modern Genocide
In 1933 the army of the nascent Iraqi state launched an exterminatory attack on members of the Assyrian community who had fled to Iraq during the First World War. 'The Assyrian affair' which at the time sent shock-waves around the world has now been largely forgotten. But an examination of its origins and causation reveals much about the nature and pattern of modern genocide. Levene argues that typecasting genocide as the outcome of prejudice, ra…
Is the holocaust simply another example of genocide? 1
Prequel to Global Catastrophe? The Dissolution of Minority Peoples Through the Lens of Climate Crisis
David Scheffer's “Genocide and Atrocity Crimes”: A Response
I have to be honest: it was with some degree of
Britain’s holocaust memorial day: A case of post-cold war wish-fulfillment, or brazen hypocristy
Battling demons or banal exterminism? Apocalypse and statecraft in modern mass murder
(2004). Battling demons or banal exterminism? Apocalypse and statecraft in modern mass murder. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 65-80
Port Jewry of Salonika: Between Neo-colonialism and Nation-state
(2001). Port Jewry of Salonika: Between Neo-colonialism and Nation-state. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 4, Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950, pp. 125-154
Going against the Grain: Two Jewish Memoirs of War and Anti—War, 1914–18
Utilising two unpublished memoirs of the seminal Great War period, this article seeks to consider the impact of compulsory military service on a British Jewish community, two-thirds of whom were recently arrived, mostly Russian Jewish immigrants. Its aim is two-fold. Firstly, it challenges a cherished received communal wisdom regarding the ‘patriotic’ nature of enlistment and ‘sacrifice’ as portrayed not only in the official British Jewry Book of…
War, Jews and the New Europe: Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914-19
The Balfour Declaration: A Case of Mistaken Identity
The Balfour Declaration: A Case of Mistaken Identity MARK LEVENE MARK LEVENE Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXII, January 1992, Pages 54–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXII.54 Published: 01 January 1992
Nationalism and its Alternatives in the International Arena: The Jewish Question at Paris, 1919
Britain, a British Jew, and Jewish Relations with the New Poland: The Making of the Polish Minorities Treaty of 1919
Is the holocaust simply another example of genocide? 1
Yesterday's victims, today's perpetrators: Considerations on peoples and territories of the former Ottoman empire1
This article seeks to place the conflict in present‐day Bosnia within a historical context. It does this by comparison with other areas within the former Ottoman empire, particularly where emerging national movements have contended for, the same territory. Ethnic cleansing and genocide have resulted on several occasions. But victims have ‐ usually on a smaller scale ‐ also become perpetrators. Part of the problem, it is argued, is the very concep…
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 1993 (no. xxxviii): Emancipation, Persecution, Emigration
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 1993 (no. xxxviii): Emancipation, Persecution, Emigration Get access Mark Levene Mark Levene Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 265–267, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.2.265 Published: 01 April 1995
Ways of seeing killing
Eric Markusen and David Kopf, The Holocaust and Strategic Bombing. Genocide and Total War in the Twentieth Century. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. xvi+354pp. Notes. Ind. Illus. £25.95. Yves Ternon, L'État criminel: les génocides au XXe siècle. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1995. 449pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. FF 140
The Travails of Zionism
Zionist culture and West European Jewry before the First World War . By Michael Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii+255. ISBN 0-521-42072-5. £29.95. The kibbutz movement. A history. Volume I. Origins and growth, 1909–1939 . By Henry Near. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii+431. ISBN 0-197-10069-4. £55.00. The road to power: Herut party in Israel . By Yonathan Shapiro. New York: State University of New Y…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access MARK LEVENE MARK LEVENE University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 452, June 1998, Pages 798–800, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.452.798 Published: 01 June 1998
"Creating a Modern "Zone of Genocide: The Impact of Nation- and State-Formation on Eastern Anatolia, 1878-1923
The persistence of genocide or near-genocidal incidents from the 1890s through the 1990s, committed by Ottoman and successor Turkish and Iraqi states against Armenian, Kurdish, Assyrian, and Pontic Greek communities in Eastern Anatolia, is striking. This article traces the origins of these incidents by examining emerging Armenian, Turkish, and Kurdish national movements and their competition for the region's resources. It argues that the creation…
Going against the Grain: Two Jewish Memoirs of War and Anti—War, 1914–18
Utilising two unpublished memoirs of the seminal Great War period, this article seeks to consider the impact of compulsory military service on a British Jewish community, two-thirds of whom were recently arrived, mostly Russian Jewish immigrants. Its aim is two-fold. Firstly, it challenges a cherished received communal wisdom regarding the ‘patriotic’ nature of enlistment and ‘sacrifice’ as portrayed not only in the official British Jewry Book of…
The Chittagong Hill Tracts: A case study in the political economy of 'creeping' genocide
The destruction of indigenous, tribal peoples in remote and/or frontier regions of the developing world is often assumed to be the outcome of inexorable, even inevitable forces of progress . People are not so much killed, they become extinct. Terms such as ethnocide, cultural genocide or developmental genocide suggest a distinct form of 'off the map' elimination which implicitly discourages comparison with other acknowledged examples of genocide.…
A Moving Target, the Usual Suspects and (Maybe) a Smoking Gun: The Problem of Pinning Blame in Modern Genocide
In 1933 the army of the nascent Iraqi state launched an exterminatory attack on members of the Assyrian community who had fled to Iraq during the First World War. 'The Assyrian affair' which at the time sent shock-waves around the world has now been largely forgotten. But an examination of its origins and causation reveals much about the nature and pattern of modern genocide. Levene argues that typecasting genocide as the outcome of prejudice, ra…
Perceptions of soil-eating and anaemia among pregnant women on the Kenyan coast
Shorter notice. Primo Levi, Tragedy of an Optimist. M Anissimov
Journal Article Primo Levi, Tragedy of an Optimist. M Anissimov Get access M Levene M Levene University of Warwick, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 461, April 2000, Pages 508–509, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.461.508 Published: 01 April 2000
The Limits of Tolerance: Nation–State Building and What It Means for Minority Groups
When we think of the most egregious forms of intolerance directed against minority communities we tend to associate them with particularly despicable regimes, such as Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, where racism, ideology or some special route to development is often held to blame, or where ultra-nationalism swamps positive tendencies towards democracy and a civil society. In this essay Levene proposes a partial corrective to this view with refere…
Can navigational assistance improve search experience? A user study
Providing navigational aids to assist users in finding information in hypertext systems has been an ongoing research problem for well over a decade. Despite this, the incorporation of navigational aids into Web search tools has been slow. While search engines have become very efficient in producing high quality rankings, support for the navigational process is still far from satisfactory. To deal with this shortcoming of search tools, we have dev…
Port Jewry of Salonika: Between Neo-colonialism and Nation-state
(2001). Port Jewry of Salonika: Between Neo-colonialism and Nation-state. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 4, Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950, pp. 125-154
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture
The changing face of mass murder: Massacre, Genocide, and Postgenocide
This contribution argues the case for the efficacy of labelling distinct episodes of extreme violence. While accepting common ingredients in what are here denoted as examples of 'massacre', 'genocide', and 'post-genocide the clue to their ' separateness lies not in the form but in the historical framework within which each occurs. Only by examining patterns of historical process, in this case in the late-Ottoman empire, are we likely to be able t…
On the economy of Web links: Simulating the exchange process
On the economy of Web links: Simulating the exchange process by Boris Galitsky and Mark Levene In the modern Web economy, hyperlinks have already attained monetary value as incoming links to a Web site can increase its visibility on major search engines. Thus links can be viewed as investment instruments that can be the subject of an exchange process. In this study we build a simple model performed by rational agents, whereby links can be bought …
Battling demons or banal exterminism? Apocalypse and statecraft in modern mass murder
(2004). Battling demons or banal exterminism? Apocalypse and statecraft in modern mass murder. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 65-80
A dissenting voice: Or how current assumptions of deterring and preventing genocide may be looking at the problem through the wrong end of the telescope, Part I
“Save our Species: Pay your ISG Dues”: the words which greet the reader to the back page of the Institute for the Study of Genocide Newsletter always make me smile wryly when I see them. For I am never quite sure how they are meant to be taken. Is this a joke—the sort of British humour you see on our car stickers—or is there actually a more serious underlying message that struggling to halt genocide is the most cogent and appropriate route by whi…
Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide
Most books on genocide consider it primarily as a twentieth-century phenomenon. In "The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide", Levene argues that this approach fails to grasp its true origins. Genocide developed out of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western experiences. It was European expansion into all hemispheres between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries that provided the main stimulus to its pre-…
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