Destruction and human remains : Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence /

Destruction and human remains : Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence /

Destruction and human remains : disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence /
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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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Other Authors: Dreyfus, Jean-Marc (Editor), Gessat-Anstett, Élisabeth (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mass murder.
Mass burials.
Genocide.
Homicide.
War crimes.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Genocide and ethnic cleansing.
History: specific events and topics.
History.
Humanities.
Sepultures collectives.
Meurtre multiple.
Crimes de guerre.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Genocide
War Crimes
Homicide > history
Mass shootings.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the tales destruction tells / Élisabeth Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus
  • Part I. Actors
  • 1. 'As if nothing ever happened': massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community / Max Bergholz
  • 2. A specialist: the daily work of Erich Muhsfeldt, chief of the crematorium at Majdanek concentration and extermination camp, 1942-44 / Elissa Mailänder
  • 3. Lands of Unkultur: mass violence, corpses, and the Nazi imagination of the East / Michael McConnell
  • Part II. Practices
  • 4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian corpses disappear / Raymond H. Kevorkian
  • 5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of mass incineration in fact, fiction, and forensics / Robert Jan van Pelt
  • 6. When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses of 'disappeared detainees' in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 / Maria Ranalletti
  • Part III. Logics
  • 7. State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran / Chowra Makaremi
  • 8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary warfare in apartheid South Africa / Nicky Rousseau
  • 9. The Tutsi body in the 1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction, and memory / Remi Korman
  • Index.

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