Publications
Mark Levene
What is the relationship, indeed what is the interface, between disappearing biological groups of plants and animals and disappearing human cultural groups? Hardly more than a generation ago, the question itself would have been considered academically abstruse, even gauche. Today, in the high era of the Anthropocene with the natural world facing a...
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Gaza 2023: Words Matter, Lives Matter More
Full-text available, Jan 2024
Mark Levene
The case for genocide in the Israeli assault on Gaza, 2023. View
Vulnerable Peoples in the Contemporary Era
Jun 2023
This chapter considers the acute vulnerability of all human beings in an era of nuclear weapons and accelerating climate emergency. But it also considers why genocide as a term cannot encompass all sub-optimal cases of vulnerability in conditions of acute intra-human conflict. It focuses on the Algerian war of independence, 1954-1962, and its long-...
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Vulnerable Peoples in the Contemporary Era: An Overview. May 2023
Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it continues with a survey of the genocide studies field, racism and antisemitism. The four parts cover the impacts of Racism, Total War, Imperial C... View
The Holocaust Paradigm as Paradoxical Imperative in the Century of Anthropogenic Omnicide,
ArticleJul 2022
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 c...
