Roger W Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger W Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger W |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unconscionable Crimes
Paul Morrow, a philosopher who is currently a Human Rights Fellow at the University of Dayton, has written a much-needed study of the relationships between moral, legal, and social norms and the all-too-human, in this case genocide and other mass atrocities. His book is an extended argument against the claim that he attributes to various historians, philosophers, and social scientists that such atrocities are committed either out of a suspension …
Editors’ Dedication
The Genocide Contagion
This is a book about human nature and the “foundations of evil” that reside within us. Israel Charny utilizes a psychological approach to analyze how it is that all human beings can become potential perpetrators of genocide. The processes that allow us to kill our fellows in large numbers are intrinsic to our nature: “all are human, all are common, all are necessary for our everyday functioning as human beings, and all, without exception, are pra…
How Does One Address the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and Modern Denial
How does one commemorate a genocide that has been denied for a hundred years, and continues to be officially denied by the government of Turkey? The Republic of Armenia, and the foreign ministry in particular, chose to organize a Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide in Yerevan on 22–23 April 2015. It involved several panels featuring the most prominent genocide scholars and included an in-depth discussion of denial. This exchange raised som…
Introduction
One hundred years ago, the Ottoman regime, best known as that of the Young Turks, began a series of actions that led to the genocides of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks that only ended in 1923. The articles presented in this special issue of Genocide Studies International deal with the competing interpretations of why the Armenian Genocide occurred, with what the German archives reveal about it and any German responsibility for it, and with Turk…
Genocide Denial and Prevention
In the ancient world, the destruction of a people was acknowledged, even celebrated; in the modern world, it has been uniformly denied. This essay is an attempt to indicate the meaning of denial, its relationship to other processes that are similar yet different (non-recognition, erosion of memory, indifference), the logic behind it (denial of the facts, responsibility, applicability of the term genocide to events, the significance of the destruc…
George Steiner and the War against the Jews
The literary and cultural critic George Steiner has been described as the pre-eminent literary critic of the past fifty years. Certainly, he has written eloquently about aspects of the Holocaust, and his emphasis on language and its power to make and unmake much of human life, has been widely influential. Yet Steiner's work on the Holocaust is misleading in its interpretations, explanations, and implications. Part of this stems from his worry tha…
Utopian Goals, Unasked Questions
Why GSP
Why GSP? Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (GSP) is the official journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and is published by the University of Toronto Press through a partnership of the IAGS and the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (A Division of the Zoryan Institute) (IIGHRS). The two organizations share a deep commitment to the study and prevention of the genocide…
The Significance of the Armenian Genocide after Ninety Years
Each genocide provides a foundation for subsequent horrors. Each historical misrepresentation of efforts to exterminate a particular ethnic group increases the likelihood that such efforts will be undertaken again in another time and place
Denying History
Journal Article Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Get access Roger W. Smith Roger W. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 16, Issue 2, Fall 2002, Pages 321–322, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/16.2.321 Published: 01 January 2002
Toward understanding and preventing genocide
This article is a brief commentary on the study by Ervin Staub on The Origins and Prevention of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Other Collective Violence (this issue). It is largely supportive of his theory of the origins of genocide but more critical about the possibilities of preventing genocide, given the current lack of political will that is necessary to implement the many reasonable proposals he presents
Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide
Journal Article Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide Get access Roger W. Smith, Roger W. Smith College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Markusen, Eric Markusen Southwest State UniversityMarshall, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Jay Lifton Robert Jay Lifton The City University of New Yo…
Women and Genocide
Whatever has been written about the history of genocide has been based mainly on the experiences of men. Yet women's experiences with genocide have often differed from those of men in terms of participation, forms of victimization, and consequences. This essay explores these issues, focusing In particular on the relationship between women and the perpetration of genocide
The Economy of Guilt
Redemption and Politics
The underlying premise of this essay is that there are degrees of risk beyond which few persons will go. This is, in fact, the basis of all theories of deterrence. But whereas the idea of deterrence is ordinarily applied to problems such as war or crime, I want to apply it to the acceptance of political responsibility. Essentially I shall argue that the inability to exorcize guilt-the lack of the possibility of redemption-acts as a deterrent to t…
The Political Meaning of Unconscious Guilt
Modern political science finds some degree of power everywhere, yet many people feel increasingly powerless; guilt is a universal experience, yet political science has almost entirely ignored it. I am not presently concerned with why guilt has been an excluded problem; even poverty, until a few years ago, was left to the economists.' Nor do I wish to raise in general terms the question of the relevance of guilt to politics. I will, instead, focus…
Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide
Journal Article Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide Get access Roger W. Smith, Roger W. Smith College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Markusen, Eric Markusen Southwest State UniversityMarshall, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Jay Lifton Robert Jay Lifton The City University of New Yo…
Women and Genocide
Whatever has been written about the history of genocide has been based mainly on the experiences of men. Yet women's experiences with genocide have often differed from those of men in terms of participation, forms of victimization, and consequences. This essay explores these issues, focusing In particular on the relationship between women and the perpetration of genocide
How Does One Address the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and Modern Denial
How does one commemorate a genocide that has been denied for a hundred years, and continues to be officially denied by the government of Turkey? The Republic of Armenia, and the foreign ministry in particular, chose to organize a Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide in Yerevan on 22–23 April 2015. It involved several panels featuring the most prominent genocide scholars and included an in-depth discussion of denial. This exchange raised som…
Introduction
One hundred years ago, the Ottoman regime, best known as that of the Young Turks, began a series of actions that led to the genocides of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks that only ended in 1923. The articles presented in this special issue of Genocide Studies International deal with the competing interpretations of why the Armenian Genocide occurred, with what the German archives reveal about it and any German responsibility for it, and with Turk…
Genocide Denial and Prevention
In the ancient world, the destruction of a people was acknowledged, even celebrated; in the modern world, it has been uniformly denied. This essay is an attempt to indicate the meaning of denial, its relationship to other processes that are similar yet different (non-recognition, erosion of memory, indifference), the logic behind it (denial of the facts, responsibility, applicability of the term genocide to events, the significance of the destruc…
The Political Meaning of Unconscious Guilt
Modern political science finds some degree of power everywhere, yet many people feel increasingly powerless; guilt is a universal experience, yet political science has almost entirely ignored it. I am not presently concerned with why guilt has been an excluded problem; even poverty, until a few years ago, was left to the economists.' Nor do I wish to raise in general terms the question of the relevance of guilt to politics. I will, instead, focus…
Redemption and Politics
The underlying premise of this essay is that there are degrees of risk beyond which few persons will go. This is, in fact, the basis of all theories of deterrence. But whereas the idea of deterrence is ordinarily applied to problems such as war or crime, I want to apply it to the acceptance of political responsibility. Essentially I shall argue that the inability to exorcize guilt-the lack of the possibility of redemption-acts as a deterrent to t…
The Economy of Guilt
Women and Genocide
Whatever has been written about the history of genocide has been based mainly on the experiences of men. Yet women's experiences with genocide have often differed from those of men in terms of participation, forms of victimization, and consequences. This essay explores these issues, focusing In particular on the relationship between women and the perpetration of genocide
Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide
Journal Article Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide Get access Roger W. Smith, Roger W. Smith College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Markusen, Eric Markusen Southwest State UniversityMarshall, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Jay Lifton Robert Jay Lifton The City University of New Yo…
Toward understanding and preventing genocide
This article is a brief commentary on the study by Ervin Staub on The Origins and Prevention of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Other Collective Violence (this issue). It is largely supportive of his theory of the origins of genocide but more critical about the possibilities of preventing genocide, given the current lack of political will that is necessary to implement the many reasonable proposals he presents
Denying History
Journal Article Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Get access Roger W. Smith Roger W. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 16, Issue 2, Fall 2002, Pages 321–322, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/16.2.321 Published: 01 January 2002
Why GSP
Why GSP? Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (GSP) is the official journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and is published by the University of Toronto Press through a partnership of the IAGS and the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (A Division of the Zoryan Institute) (IIGHRS). The two organizations share a deep commitment to the study and prevention of the genocide…
The Significance of the Armenian Genocide after Ninety Years
Each genocide provides a foundation for subsequent horrors. Each historical misrepresentation of efforts to exterminate a particular ethnic group increases the likelihood that such efforts will be undertaken again in another time and place
George Steiner and the War against the Jews
The literary and cultural critic George Steiner has been described as the pre-eminent literary critic of the past fifty years. Certainly, he has written eloquently about aspects of the Holocaust, and his emphasis on language and its power to make and unmake much of human life, has been widely influential. Yet Steiner's work on the Holocaust is misleading in its interpretations, explanations, and implications. Part of this stems from his worry tha…
Utopian Goals, Unasked Questions
Genocide Denial and Prevention
In the ancient world, the destruction of a people was acknowledged, even celebrated; in the modern world, it has been uniformly denied. This essay is an attempt to indicate the meaning of denial, its relationship to other processes that are similar yet different (non-recognition, erosion of memory, indifference), the logic behind it (denial of the facts, responsibility, applicability of the term genocide to events, the significance of the destruc…
Introduction
One hundred years ago, the Ottoman regime, best known as that of the Young Turks, began a series of actions that led to the genocides of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks that only ended in 1923. The articles presented in this special issue of Genocide Studies International deal with the competing interpretations of why the Armenian Genocide occurred, with what the German archives reveal about it and any German responsibility for it, and with Turk…
How Does One Address the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and Modern Denial
How does one commemorate a genocide that has been denied for a hundred years, and continues to be officially denied by the government of Turkey? The Republic of Armenia, and the foreign ministry in particular, chose to organize a Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide in Yerevan on 22–23 April 2015. It involved several panels featuring the most prominent genocide scholars and included an in-depth discussion of denial. This exchange raised som…
Editors’ Dedication
The Genocide Contagion
This is a book about human nature and the “foundations of evil” that reside within us. Israel Charny utilizes a psychological approach to analyze how it is that all human beings can become potential perpetrators of genocide. The processes that allow us to kill our fellows in large numbers are intrinsic to our nature: “all are human, all are common, all are necessary for our everyday functioning as human beings, and all, without exception, are pra…
Unconscionable Crimes
Paul Morrow, a philosopher who is currently a Human Rights Fellow at the University of Dayton, has written a much-needed study of the relationships between moral, legal, and social norms and the all-too-human, in this case genocide and other mass atrocities. His book is an extended argument against the claim that he attributes to various historians, philosophers, and social scientists that such atrocities are committed either out of a suspension …
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