Erin Jessee
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 118357 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Erin Jessee |
| PRENOMES | Erin |
| SOBRENOME | Jessee |
| ASSINATURA | JESSEE E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8132-7966 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
An Introduction to Spiritual Violence
Chapter 13 introduces the concept of spiritual violence that, in the context of genocidal symbolic violence, includes purposeful atrocities that perpetrators devise with the intent of causing long-term—even permanent—spiritual distress and injury to living and the deceased members of their intended victims’ communities. The resulting atrocities are grounded in the violation of another critical element of victim communities’ sense of shared identi…
Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue "Researching Perpetrators, Revisited". This special issue continues the critical conversation on methods and ethics in perpetrator research initiated in the collection Researching Perpetrators of Genocide (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), edited by Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee
Perpetrators as Victims? Inclusivity and Proximity in Post-Genocide Cambodia and Rwanda
In post-genocide Cambodia and Rwanda, low-level perpetrators often identify as victims of the genocidal regimes alongside those they tortured and killed. However, state and societal responses to these claims appear to have varied dramatically. In Cambodia, the government and civil society organizations seem to view former Khmer Rouge cadres’ claims to victim status as socially acceptable and politically useful, while in Rwanda, the government and…
On Argentina's Crimes against Humanity Trials
REVIEW OF: Eva Van Roekel, Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020). 196 pp. (paperback). ISBN 978-1-978-80026-7
Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
Legacies of Kanjogera
Kanjogera looms large in Rwandan history as a Queen Mother (1895–1931) – a position equal to that of the king – who wielded extraordinary political power. While she was not the first Rwandan woman to exercise this kind of power, she is arguably the most widely remembered in Rwandan popular culture largely due to the brutalities she allegedly inflicted upon her perceived enemies. But why do Kanjogera’s violent excesses stand out when other monarch…
Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda
This book is an oral history-based study of the politics of history in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Using life history and thematic interviews, the author brings the narratives of officials, survivors, returnees, perpetrators, and others whose lives have been intimately affected by genocide into conversation with scholarly studies of the Rwandan genocide, and Rwandan history more generally. In doing so, she explores the following…
Managing Danger in Oral Historical Fieldwork
This article offers an overview of the literature on anticipating and managing danger in qualitative fieldwork as it pertains to the practice of oral history in various settings. It offers an alternative perspective to the widespread assumption that oral history is an inherently positive endeavor that results in good relationships and positive outcomes. This article explores some of the circumstances through which danger can emerge in the course …
Listening on the Edge
No abstract available.
The danger of a single story
In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, the government of Rwanda—much like other transitional regimes around the world—has prioritized reconciliation initiatives that educate civilians with a highly politicized understanding of the conflict and encourage them to speak about the conflict and its aftermath in a manner that reinforces the legitimacy of the current government. However, individual survivors, bystanders, ex-combatants, and/or perpetrato…
Rwandan Women No More
Since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the current government has arrested approximately 130,000 civilians who were suspected of criminal responsibility. An estimated 2,000 were women, a cohort that remains rarely researched through an ethnographic lens. This article begins to address this oversight by analyzing ethnographic encounters with 8 confessed or convicted female génocidaires from around Rwanda. These encounters reveal that female génocidaires…
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice Returns to the Field
A review of "Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice" by Jean Lave (2011) and "Returns to the Field: Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology", edited by Signe Howell, and Aud Talle (2012).
Good Kings, Bloody Tyrants, and Everything In Between
Since assuming power after the 1994 genocide, President Paul Kagame and his political party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, have struggled to unite Rwanda's citizens using, among other initiatives, a simplified version of Rwandan history to diminish the ethnic tensions that made the 1994 genocide possible. As a result, Rwanda's history has become highly politicized, with vastly divergent versions of the nation's past narrated in private settings, w…
Serbian Dreambook
Erin Jessee reviews Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milošević by By Marko Živković
Conducting fieldwork in Rwanda
Despite the plethora of studies critiquing the political climate in post-genocide Rwanda, it is possible for researchers to conduct fieldwork in Rwanda. However, all aspects of the fieldwork being conducted must be sensitive to the highly politicised research setting and must satisfy criteria established by the government of Rwanda. This research note is intended as a guide for foreign researchers who, due to the difficulties associated with gett…
Ethical Imperialism
Erin Jessee reviews Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009 by Zachary M Schrag
Oral History and Adult Community Education
In May 2009, Concordia University’s Institute for Community Development (ICD), the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and L’Abri en Ville, in Montreal, Canada, organized a collaborative oral history workshop. As part of the ICD’s Open University program, it aimed to give a group of adults, several of whom were coping with mental illnesses, an opportunity to learn about this craft in a setting that was free of the barriers that tend…
Memory, War, and Trauma
Erin Jessee reviews Memory, War, and Trauma by Nigel C Hunt
The Limits of Oral History
In recent years, oral history has been celebrated by its practitioners for its humanizing potential, and its ability to democratize history by bringing the narratives of people and communities typically absent in the archives into conversation with that of the political and intellectual elites who generally write history. And when dealing with the narratives of ordinary people living in conditions of social and political stability, the value of o…
The Limits of Oral History
In recent years, oral history has been celebrated by its practitioners for its humanizing potential, and its ability to democratize history by bringing the narratives of people and communities typically absent in the archives into conversation with that of the political and intellectual elites who generally write history. And when dealing with the narratives of ordinary people living in conditions of social and political stability, the value of o…
Legacies of Kanjogera
Kanjogera looms large in Rwandan history as a Queen Mother (1895–1931) – a position equal to that of the king – who wielded extraordinary political power. While she was not the first Rwandan woman to exercise this kind of power, she is arguably the most widely remembered in Rwandan popular culture largely due to the brutalities she allegedly inflicted upon her perceived enemies. But why do Kanjogera’s violent excesses stand out when other monarch…
Good Kings, Bloody Tyrants, and Everything In Between
Since assuming power after the 1994 genocide, President Paul Kagame and his political party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, have struggled to unite Rwanda's citizens using, among other initiatives, a simplified version of Rwandan history to diminish the ethnic tensions that made the 1994 genocide possible. As a result, Rwanda's history has become highly politicized, with vastly divergent versions of the nation's past narrated in private settings, w…
The danger of a single story
In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, the government of Rwanda—much like other transitional regimes around the world—has prioritized reconciliation initiatives that educate civilians with a highly politicized understanding of the conflict and encourage them to speak about the conflict and its aftermath in a manner that reinforces the legitimacy of the current government. However, individual survivors, bystanders, ex-combatants, and/or perpetrato…
Rwandan Women No More
Since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the current government has arrested approximately 130,000 civilians who were suspected of criminal responsibility. An estimated 2,000 were women, a cohort that remains rarely researched through an ethnographic lens. This article begins to address this oversight by analyzing ethnographic encounters with 8 confessed or convicted female génocidaires from around Rwanda. These encounters reveal that female génocidaires…
Conducting fieldwork in Rwanda
Despite the plethora of studies critiquing the political climate in post-genocide Rwanda, it is possible for researchers to conduct fieldwork in Rwanda. However, all aspects of the fieldwork being conducted must be sensitive to the highly politicised research setting and must satisfy criteria established by the government of Rwanda. This research note is intended as a guide for foreign researchers who, due to the difficulties associated with gett…
Managing Danger in Oral Historical Fieldwork
This article offers an overview of the literature on anticipating and managing danger in qualitative fieldwork as it pertains to the practice of oral history in various settings. It offers an alternative perspective to the widespread assumption that oral history is an inherently positive endeavor that results in good relationships and positive outcomes. This article explores some of the circumstances through which danger can emerge in the course …
Ethical Imperialism
Erin Jessee reviews Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009 by Zachary M Schrag
Ethical Imperialism
Erin Jessee reviews Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009 by Zachary M Schrag
Oral History and Adult Community Education
In May 2009, Concordia University’s Institute for Community Development (ICD), the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and L’Abri en Ville, in Montreal, Canada, organized a collaborative oral history workshop. As part of the ICD’s Open University program, it aimed to give a group of adults, several of whom were coping with mental illnesses, an opportunity to learn about this craft in a setting that was free of the barriers that tend…
Memory, War, and Trauma
Erin Jessee reviews Memory, War, and Trauma by Nigel C Hunt
The Limits of Oral History
In recent years, oral history has been celebrated by its practitioners for its humanizing potential, and its ability to democratize history by bringing the narratives of people and communities typically absent in the archives into conversation with that of the political and intellectual elites who generally write history. And when dealing with the narratives of ordinary people living in conditions of social and political stability, the value of o…
Conducting fieldwork in Rwanda
Despite the plethora of studies critiquing the political climate in post-genocide Rwanda, it is possible for researchers to conduct fieldwork in Rwanda. However, all aspects of the fieldwork being conducted must be sensitive to the highly politicised research setting and must satisfy criteria established by the government of Rwanda. This research note is intended as a guide for foreign researchers who, due to the difficulties associated with gett…
Serbian Dreambook
Erin Jessee reviews Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milošević by By Marko Živković
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice Returns to the Field
A review of "Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice" by Jean Lave (2011) and "Returns to the Field: Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology", edited by Signe Howell, and Aud Talle (2012).
Good Kings, Bloody Tyrants, and Everything In Between
Since assuming power after the 1994 genocide, President Paul Kagame and his political party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, have struggled to unite Rwanda's citizens using, among other initiatives, a simplified version of Rwandan history to diminish the ethnic tensions that made the 1994 genocide possible. As a result, Rwanda's history has become highly politicized, with vastly divergent versions of the nation's past narrated in private settings, w…
Rwandan Women No More
Since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the current government has arrested approximately 130,000 civilians who were suspected of criminal responsibility. An estimated 2,000 were women, a cohort that remains rarely researched through an ethnographic lens. This article begins to address this oversight by analyzing ethnographic encounters with 8 confessed or convicted female génocidaires from around Rwanda. These encounters reveal that female génocidaires…
The danger of a single story
In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, the government of Rwanda—much like other transitional regimes around the world—has prioritized reconciliation initiatives that educate civilians with a highly politicized understanding of the conflict and encourage them to speak about the conflict and its aftermath in a manner that reinforces the legitimacy of the current government. However, individual survivors, bystanders, ex-combatants, and/or perpetrato…
Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda
This book is an oral history-based study of the politics of history in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Using life history and thematic interviews, the author brings the narratives of officials, survivors, returnees, perpetrators, and others whose lives have been intimately affected by genocide into conversation with scholarly studies of the Rwandan genocide, and Rwandan history more generally. In doing so, she explores the following…
Managing Danger in Oral Historical Fieldwork
This article offers an overview of the literature on anticipating and managing danger in qualitative fieldwork as it pertains to the practice of oral history in various settings. It offers an alternative perspective to the widespread assumption that oral history is an inherently positive endeavor that results in good relationships and positive outcomes. This article explores some of the circumstances through which danger can emerge in the course …
Listening on the Edge
No abstract available.
Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
Legacies of Kanjogera
Kanjogera looms large in Rwandan history as a Queen Mother (1895–1931) – a position equal to that of the king – who wielded extraordinary political power. While she was not the first Rwandan woman to exercise this kind of power, she is arguably the most widely remembered in Rwandan popular culture largely due to the brutalities she allegedly inflicted upon her perceived enemies. But why do Kanjogera’s violent excesses stand out when other monarch…
On Argentina's Crimes against Humanity Trials
REVIEW OF: Eva Van Roekel, Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020). 196 pp. (paperback). ISBN 978-1-978-80026-7
Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue "Researching Perpetrators, Revisited". This special issue continues the critical conversation on methods and ethics in perpetrator research initiated in the collection Researching Perpetrators of Genocide (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), edited by Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee
Perpetrators as Victims? Inclusivity and Proximity in Post-Genocide Cambodia and Rwanda
In post-genocide Cambodia and Rwanda, low-level perpetrators often identify as victims of the genocidal regimes alongside those they tortured and killed. However, state and societal responses to these claims appear to have varied dramatically. In Cambodia, the government and civil society organizations seem to view former Khmer Rouge cadres’ claims to victim status as socially acceptable and politically useful, while in Rwanda, the government and…
An Introduction to Spiritual Violence
Chapter 13 introduces the concept of spiritual violence that, in the context of genocidal symbolic violence, includes purposeful atrocities that perpetrators devise with the intent of causing long-term—even permanent—spiritual distress and injury to living and the deceased members of their intended victims’ communities. The resulting atrocities are grounded in the violation of another critical element of victim communities’ sense of shared identi…
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