Genocide Studies
International is inviting prospective
authors to submit manuscripts to be reviewed for a special issue on the
political economy of genocide. Among the many issues/problems is the fact
that it has barely been touched in the literature. Another is the wide
range of definitions of political economy – all the way from rational choice
theorists to Marxist critiques of capitalism. Among the many issues we
wish to address are:
1. How do you define political economy? Do you use a narrow,
political science conceptualization or do you branch out to critical
theory?
2. What issues do you address to illustrate the topic and what
parts of the world do you examine?
3. How do you treat the influence of multinational
corporations? There is a dark history here that goes back to the
Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. For example, as documented in
Charles Higham, Trading with the enemy: The
Nazi-American money plot 1933-1949 (1983), US corporations, National City
Bank, Chase, Exxon, Ford, GM, ITT, etc., supported the Nazi in various ways even
through the war.
4. Do you ever examine the relationship between external debt and
the destruction if indigenous people which was hypothesized or the impact of
land use and moving indigenous people from the land as in the Amazon?
5. What about global climate change and scarcity?
In short, we hope to receive analysis of a broad range of issues
relating to the political economy of genocide. Three scholars will review
all manuscripts and decisions on publication will be made as quickly as
possible. We would like manuscripts and inquiries to be submitted to:
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
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