Understanding the Cambodian Genocide with Dr. Alex Hinton

How did the Cambodian genocide occur and what events defined its course? And how did international justice efforts address the genocide’s legacy? On today’s episode of “Conversations on Genocide,” Bekir speaks with Dr. Alex Hinton, an expert on Cambodia who testified before the Khmer Rouge tribunal, to answer these questions and more, alongside discussing Dr. Hinton’s scholarly work on genocide.

Dr. Hinton can be found on the following social media platforms:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexander.hinton.10/
Twitter: @AlexLHinton
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-hinton-887b7312/
Bluesky: @alexhinton.bsky.social
Instagram: AlexHinton123

Alex Hinton (@AlexLHinton) is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention, and the award-winning author or editor of seventeen books, including, most recently, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021), Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell, 2022) and Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford, 2023). Most recently, he received the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology in the Media Award in 2022, a 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Network of Genocide Scholars, and a H. F. Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award in 2024.

Resources

Alexander L. Hinton. Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765698/anthropological-witness/#bookTabs=1.

Alexander L. Hinton. It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US. New York: NYU Press, 2021. https://nyupress.org/9781479808014/it-can-happen-here/.

Alexander L. Hinton. The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-justice-facade-9780198820956?lang=en&cc=us.

Alexander L. Hinton. Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31755.

Alexander L. Hinton. Why Did They Kill: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520241794/why-did-they-kill.

Antonius C. G. M. Robben & Alexander L. Hinton. Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. https://sup.org/books/title/?id=34348.

Antonius C. G. M. Robben. Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. New York: Verso, 1983.

Deborah E. Lipstadt. History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.
 Deborah E. Lipstadt. The Eichmann Trial. New York: Schocken Books, 2011.

Theodor W. Adorno. “The Meaning of Working through the Past,” in Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, translated by Henry W. Pickford. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Mental Health Resources

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