Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
ISBN:
9780812291322
Series Statement:
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Ser
Content:
This remarkable book demonstrates through in-depth case studies from ten countries around the world how the forensic exhumation of mass graves is inextricably intertwined with grassroots initiatives, national political developments, international human rights advocacy, and transnational claims of transitional justice.
Content:
Cover -- Necropolitics -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Ethnography of Exhumations -- PART I. EXHUMATIONS AS PRACTICE -- Chapter 1. Forensic Anthropology and the Investigation of Political Violence: Lessons Learned from Latin America and the Balkans -- Chapter 2. Exhumations, Territoriality, and Necropolitics in Chile and Argentina -- Chapter 3. Korean War Mass Graves -- Chapter 4. Mass Graves, Landscapes of Terror: A Spanish Tale -- Chapter 5. The Quandaries of Partial and Commingled Remains: Srebrenica's Missing and Korean War Casualties Compared -- Photo Essay. 9/11: Absence, Sediment, and Memory -- PART II. EXHUMATIONS AS MEMORY -- Chapter 6. Buried Silences of the Greek Civil War -- Chapter 7. Death in Transition: The Truth Commission and the Politics of Reburial in Postconflict Peru -- Chapter 8. Death on Display: Bones and Bodies in Cambodia and Rwanda -- Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812247206
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780812247206
Language:
English
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