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 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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Manchester University Press
2014
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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. Kévorkian
- 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 Rémi Korman
- Index