The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres,
and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that
stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due
to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human
rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a
standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging
for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this
growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including
the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as
evidence is gathered and the dead are named. Adam Rosenblatt
examines the ethical, political, and historical foundations of the
rapidly growing field of forensic investigation, from the graves of
the "disappeared" in Latin America to genocides in Rwanda and the
former Yugoslavia to post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. In the process, he
illustrates how forensic teams strive to balance the needs of war
crimes tribunals, transitional governments, and the families of the
missing in post-conflict nations. Digging for the Disappeared draws
on interviews with key players in the field to present a new way to
analyze and value the work forensic experts do at mass graves,
shifting the discussion from an exclusive focus on the rights of
the living to a rigorous analysis of the care of the dead.
Rosenblatt tackles these heady, hard topics in order to extend
human rights scholarship into the realm of the dead and the limited
but powerful forms of repair available for victims of atrocity.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Stanford Studies in Human Rights |
| Release date: |
March 2015 |
| First published: |
2015 |
| Authors: |
Adam Rosenblatt
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade / Trade
|
| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8047-9491-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Science: general issues >
Forensic science
|
| LSN: |
0-8047-9491-X |
| Barcode: |
9780804794916 |
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