Destruction and human remains Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence, death does not constitute the end of the execut...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, England :
Manchester University Press
2014
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| Colección: | Human Remains and Violence.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439824106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- ‡t Introduction: the tales destruction tells / ‡r Élisabeth Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus
- ‡t Part I. Actors
- ‡t 1. 'As if nothing ever happened': massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community / ‡r Max Bergholz
- ‡t 2. A specialist: the daily work of Erich Muhsfeldt, chief of the crematorium at Majdanek concentration and extermination camp, 1942-44 / ‡r Elissa Mailänder
- ‡t 3. Lands of Unkultur: mass violence, corpses, and the Nazi imagination of the East / ‡r Michael McConnell
- ‡t Part II. Practices
- ‡t 4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian corpses disappear / ‡r Raymond H. Kévorkian
- ‡t 5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of mass incineration in fact, fiction, and forensics / ‡r Robert Jan van Pelt
- ‡t 6. When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses of 'disappeared detainees' in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 / ‡r Maria Ranalletti
- ‡t Part III. Logics
- ‡t 7. State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran / ‡r Chowra Makaremi
- ‡t 8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary warfare in apartheid South Africa / ‡r Nicky Rousseau
- ‡t 9. The Tutsi body in the 1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction, and memory / ‡r Rémi Korman
- ‡t Index.
