A Dirk Moses
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 459286 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Dirk Moses |
| PRENOMES | A Dirk |
| SOBRENOME | Moses |
| ASSINATURA | MOSES A D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City College of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2990-9571 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 235 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 19 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Preface
Genocide and permanent security
This essay accounts for this dual function of “genocide” as simultaneously a vehicle of state power and resource to challenge it by situating it in the long history of permanent security rather than in a whiggish story of civilizational progress. Synonymous with European empire, the foundation of the European state and global capitalism, permanent security is sovereignty’s conceit that reserves the right to “shock the conscience of mankind” in th…
Der Prototyp des Völkermords“
An Earlier Genocide Debate
Introduction
In May and June 2025, the Journal of Genocide Research cohosted workshops in New York and London to consider the question of Gaza and the field of Genocide Studies more generally. Having published
Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory
Replacing ‘Genocide’ with ‘Permanent Security’ via Genealogy
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 On civilian victimisation, see Downes, Targeting Civilians in War.2 An excellent straightforward hisorical account is Graziosi, and Sysyn, Genocide. For analyses in political theory, see Thaler, Naming Violence, and Meiches, Politics of Annihilation.3 Mamdani, "The Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish?" Alas I only stumbled across this article in 20…
The German Campaign against Cultural Freedom
The International Administration of Territory as an Interim Peace
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reached a new, critical stage, with a confluence of developments that could lead to a number of possible scenarios discussed in the press and by think tanks.1 Cu
Introduction
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the reverberations of this conflict have consumed ordinary individuals, scholars, and practitioners with unyielding intensity. In view of confli
Empire, Colony, Genocide
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation states. It thereby challenges the c…
Genocide and Settler Society
Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and …
The Modernist Imagination
The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of politic…
Round Table (Part 1)
In my brief commentary, I ask Douglas Irvin-Erickson, six years since his book appeared, about what comes next: namely, whether he thinks a new intellectual history of genocide needs transcend the assumption about its humanization of domestic and international affairs
Round Table (Full Symposium)
s book covers the emergence of the concept and word "genocide," contextualizing Lemkin's intellectual development in interwar Poland and exploring the evolving connection between his philosophical writings, his work in the law of international finance and economic conflict, his juridical works, and his politics over the following decades. Part intellectual biography, part legal and diplomatic history
Security, genocide, and the holocaust
Dirk Moses's 2021 The Problems of Genocide has generated some debates — but it should also be an essential reference for Holocaust scholars. Moving beyond polemics and the black-and-white debates about the Holocaust's uniqueness, this forum invites a critical assessment of the book from three disciplines – international law, philosophy, and history. The forum seeks to begin erasing disciplinary boundaries within Holocaust studies. Not only in thi…
Patriotic Histories in Global Perspective
Konczal K, Moses AD. Patriotic Histories in Global Perspective. Journal of Genocide Research . 2021
The Problems of Genocide
Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law, atop which sits genocide as the 'crime of crimes', blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death, like bombing cities, and…
Response to commentaries in JMEH forum on The Problems of Genocide
Response to Sinja Graf’s Review of The Problems of Genocide
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White Genocide” and the Ethics of Public Analysis
By the time this reflection is published online (29 March), at least a fortnight will have passed since the 28-year old Australian, Brenton Tarrant shot and killed 50 Muslims praying in a mosque in
Empire, colony, genocide
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation states. It thereby challenges the c…
Intellectual History or Philosophical History? The Indian Century as Global Miniature
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 See, for instance, Maia Ramnath, Haj to Utopia; Faisal Devji, The Impossible Indian; Kama Maclean, A Revolutionary History of Interwar India.2 See, for instance, Martin Bayly, Lineages of Indian International Relations, 819–35; Vineet Thakur, Liberal, Liminal and Lost, 232–58; Vineet Thakur and Alexander E. Davis, A Communal Affair over International Affairs,…
The World After Gaza
An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia
2000). An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia. Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 89-106
Empire, Colony, Genocide
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation states. It thereby challenges the c…
Official apologies, reconciliation, and settler colonialism
The burgeoning literature on transitional justice, truth commissions, reconciliation and official apologies tends to ignore the conditions of settler states in which 'reconciliation' needs to take account of indigenous minorities. The settler colonialism literature is worth including in the general discussion because it is exceptionally reflective about political theory (the constitutional recognition of indigenous rights) and ethnogenesis (the o…
The Nigeria–Biafra war
The Nigeria–Biafra war that raged between 1967 and 1970 made headlines around the world, above all for the major famine in the secessionist enclave of Biafra, and prompted a major international relief. It was a genuinely global event. Yet by the late 1970s, it was seldom talked about outside Nigeria. Since then, it barely features in scholarly and popular accounts of the period. The conflict is also virtually entirely absent from the field of gen…
Hayden White, Traumatic Nationalism, and the Public Role of History1
Das römische Gesprächin a New Key
This essay provides a historiography of Western civilization and the history of twentieth-century intellectual life to consider the writings of German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt. It explores the influence on classical writers of Rome and their theories of the Republic onto Arendt's writings and philosophies of modern politics. Topics explored include human rights and the Holocaust, fascism and totalitarianism, and Arendt's book "Th…
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights
This article analyzes the debate about the controversial Canadian Museum for Human Rights by reconstructing the efforts to establish a government-sponsored Holocaust museum from the late 1990s. This history reveals that the controversy inheres in part in the conflation of the rival imperatives to promote atrocity memorialization on the one hand, above all of the Holocaust, and human rights education/activism on the other. In multicultural Canada,…
Genocide and the Terror of History
This article explores how and why the ‘terror of history’ is an inescapable feature of modernity as it unfolds in historical reality as opposed to tidy sociological theories. For the ‘small nations’ and their disaporas in particular, traumatic memories of genocide and flight, and experiences of continuing exile from and occupation of imagined homelands, constitute a political imaginary that is irreducibly catastrophic. Politics is necessarily ‘ca…
Time, indigeneity, and peoplehood
Despite many differences between settler colonial states and the African successor states of the European empires, some important parallels are identifiable in the debates among their black intelligentsias. If in Africa and Australia the language of decolonization was (and often remains) suffused by the grammar of cultural distinctiveness, anti-imperial resistance and liberation, new voices can be heard that are challenging these terms of politic…
Moving the Genocide Debate Beyond the History Wars
The “History Wars” have paralysed the scholarly discussion on genocide in Australian history, because genocide is regarded as a politicized concept that distorts historical understanding. Both the public sphere and much historiography continue to regard genocide as a synonym for the Holocaust, framing public discussion of genocide in Australia as well as discouraging historians from engaging with the international comparative literature on coloni…
Structure and Agency in the Holocaust
A striking aspect of the so-called "Goldhagen debate" hasbeen the bifurcated reception Hitler's Willing Executioners hasreceived: the enthusiastic welcome of journalists and the public was as warm as the impatientdismissal of most historians was cool. This article seeks to transcend the current impasse byanalyzing the underlying issues of Holocaust research at stake here. It argues that a "deepstructure" necessarily characterizes the historiograp…
White Genocide” and the Ethics of Public Analysis
By the time this reflection is published online (29 March), at least a fortnight will have passed since the 28-year old Australian, Brenton Tarrant shot and killed 50 Muslims praying in a mosque in
Paranoia and Partisanship
Recent literature on the Holocaust and (other) genocides reveals that on the whole differences in approach persist. For many historians, as for the public, the Holocaust is the prototypical genocide, such that mass violence must resemble the Holocaust to constitute genocide. Whereas ‘normal’ ethnic/national conflict is commonly believed to involve ‘real’ issues like land, resources, and political power, no such conflict is discernible in the Holo…
Coming to terms with genocidal pasts in comparative perspective
The question of how countries deal with the material and symbolic legacies of totalitarian rule, genocide, and civil war in their immediate pasts is spawning a growing body of research on recent national and regional cases -post-apartheid South Africa, postcommunist central and eastern Europe, and post-dictatorial South America -as well as on the 'classic' instances of postwar Japan and Germany. 1 Closely related is the voluminous literature on c…
The German Campaign against Cultural Freedom
Patriotic Histories in Global Perspective
Konczal K, Moses AD. Patriotic Histories in Global Perspective. Journal of Genocide Research . 2021
Mass violence and the end of the Dutch colonial empire in Indonesia
Version of record first published: 24 Sep 2012
Revisiting a Founding Assumption of Genocide Studies
Genocide studies has come a long way over the past decade, having attained a level of intellectual sobriety, academic credibility, and public recognition virtually inconceivable forty years ago. At the same time, there have been signs of convergence between the fields of genocide studies and Holocaust historiography and studies. This development can be challenging for those in Holocaust studies and historiography because the relationship betweem …
The Non-German German and the German German
Research Article| August 01 2007 The Non-German German and the German German: Dilemmas of Identity after the Holocaust A. Dirk Moses A. Dirk Moses Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 45–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation A. Dirk Moses; The Non-German German and the German Germ…
The Public Relevance of Historical Studies
Hayden White wants history to serve life by having it inspire an ethical consciousness, by which he means that in facing the existential questions of life, death, trauma, and suffering posed by human history, people are moved to formulate answers to them rather than to feel that they have no power to choose how they live. The ethical historian should craft narratives that inspire people to live meaningfully rather than try to provide explanations…
Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas
(2005). Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas. Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 7, Raphael Lemkin: the “founder of the United Nation's Genocide Convention“ as a historian of mass violence, pp. 501-529
Introduction
In May and June 2025, the Journal of Genocide Research cohosted workshops in New York and London to consider the question of Gaza and the field of Genocide Studies more generally. Having published
Response to commentaries in JMEH forum on The Problems of Genocide
Forum
What can one say about the state of the art in the Federal Republic? A number of aspects are discernible, not only in the practices and various traditions of intellectual history there, but also in its politics: the stark dichotomy between Marxists and anti-Marxists; the ever-present metahistorical question of which (sub)discipline, field, or method would set the political agenda; and the position of Jewish émigrés. These issues raise still more …
Genocide and Holocaust Consciousness in Australia
Ever since the British colonists in Australia became aware of the disappearance of the indigenous peoples in the 1830s, they have contrived to excuse themselves by pointing to the effects of disease and displacement. Yet although ‘genocide’ was not a term used in the nineteenth century, ‘extermination’ was, and many colonists called for the extermination of Aborigines when they impeded settlement by offering resistance. Consciousness of genocide …
Structure and Agency in the Holocaust
A striking aspect of the so-called "Goldhagen debate" hasbeen the bifurcated reception Hitler's Willing Executioners hasreceived: the enthusiastic welcome of journalists and the public was as warm as the impatientdismissal of most historians was cool. This article seeks to transcend the current impasse byanalyzing the underlying issues of Holocaust research at stake here. It argues that a "deepstructure" necessarily characterizes the historiograp…
An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia
2000). An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia. Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 89-106
Interview with Duncan Waterson
Genocide and Holocaust Consciousness in Australia
Ever since the British colonists in Australia became aware of the disappearance of the indigenous peoples in the 1830s, they have contrived to excuse themselves by pointing to the effects of disease and displacement. Yet although ‘genocide’ was not a term used in the nineteenth century, ‘extermination’ was, and many colonists called for the extermination of Aborigines when they impeded settlement by offering resistance. Consciousness of genocide …
Genocide and Settler Society
Genocide and Settler Society
Genocide and Settler Society in Australian History
The Public Relevance of Historical Studies
Hayden White wants history to serve life by having it inspire an ethical consciousness, by which he means that in facing the existential questions of life, death, trauma, and suffering posed by human history, people are moved to formulate answers to them rather than to feel that they have no power to choose how they live. The ethical historian should craft narratives that inspire people to live meaningfully rather than try to provide explanations…
Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas
(2005). Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas. Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 7, Raphael Lemkin: the “founder of the United Nation's Genocide Convention“ as a historian of mass violence, pp. 501-529
Hayden White, Traumatic Nationalism, and the Public Role of History1
German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past
This 2007 book analyzes how West German intellectuals debated the Nazi past and democratic future of their country. Rather than proceeding event by event, it highlights the underlying issues at stake: the question of a stigmatized nation and the polarized reactions to it that structured German discussion and memory of the Nazi past. Paying close attention to the generation of German intellectuals born during the Weimar Republic - the forty-fivers…
Stigma and Sacrifice in the Federal Republic of Germany
Historians are dumb witnesses to a culture wrangling with itself about its criminal past if they only narrate the sequence of historical controversies such as those that have dotted the German public landscape since the Holocaust. They need to be alive to the subterranean biblical themes flowing beneath the surface froth of events, linking past and present through the continuity of German political emotions that are necessarily collective and the…
The Non-German German and the German German
Research Article| August 01 2007 The Non-German German and the German German: Dilemmas of Identity after the Holocaust A. Dirk Moses A. Dirk Moses Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 45–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation A. Dirk Moses; The Non-German German and the German Germ…
Empire, Colony, Genocide
Historiography of Genocide
Modernist Imagination
The fate of Blacks and Jews
My title is taken from the final chapter of Laurence Mordekhai Thomas's unjustly neglected book, Vessels of Evil: American Slavery and the Holocaust, but I might as well have used an essay title by
Empire, Colony, Genocide
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation states. It thereby challenges the c…
Moving the Genocide Debate Beyond the History Wars
The “History Wars” have paralysed the scholarly discussion on genocide in Australian history, because genocide is regarded as a politicized concept that distorts historical understanding. Both the public sphere and much historiography continue to regard genocide as a synonym for the Holocaust, framing public discussion of genocide in Australia as well as discouraging historians from engaging with the international comparative literature on coloni…
Imperial Formations (review)
Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People
The transformation of global politics in the early 1990s marked the end of the ‘short twentieth century’ (Hobsbawm 1994) and its Cold War certainties. If the collapse of the Soviet Union, end of apartheid in South Africa and fall of Latin America dictators indicated the victorious extension of the international liberal order, the outbreak of genocidal ethnic conflict in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and the Caucasus also heralded the return of integral nati…
State Death
Time, indigeneity, and peoplehood
Despite many differences between settler colonial states and the African successor states of the European empires, some important parallels are identifiable in the debates among their black intelligentsias. If in Africa and Australia the language of decolonization was (and often remains) suffused by the grammar of cultural distinctiveness, anti-imperial resistance and liberation, new voices can be heard that are challenging these terms of politic…
Revisiting a Founding Assumption of Genocide Studies
Genocide studies has come a long way over the past decade, having attained a level of intellectual sobriety, academic credibility, and public recognition virtually inconceivable forty years ago. At the same time, there have been signs of convergence between the fields of genocide studies and Holocaust historiography and studies. This development can be challenging for those in Holocaust studies and historiography because the relationship betweem …
Genocide and the Terror of History
This article explores how and why the ‘terror of history’ is an inescapable feature of modernity as it unfolds in historical reality as opposed to tidy sociological theories. For the ‘small nations’ and their disaporas in particular, traumatic memories of genocide and flight, and experiences of continuing exile from and occupation of imagined homelands, constitute a political imaginary that is irreducibly catastrophic. Politics is necessarily ‘ca…
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