The unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting
traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict,
and unfinished mourning. Like silent testimonies to the wounds of
history, these graves continue to inflict harm on communities and
families that wish to bury or memorialize their lost kin. Changing
political circumstances can reveal the location of mass graves or
facilitate their exhumation, but the challenge of identifying and
recovering the dead is only the beginning of a complex process that
brings the rights and wishes of a bereaved society onto a
transnational stage. Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in
the Age of Human Rights examines the political and social
implications of this sensitive undertaking in specific local and
national contexts. International forensic methods, local-level
claims, national political developments, and transnational human
rights discourse converge in detailed case studies from the United
States, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece,
Rwanda, Cambodia, and Korea. Contributors analyze the role of
exhumations in transitional justice from the steps of interviewing
eyewitnesses and survivors to the painstaking forensic recovery and
comparison of DNA profiles. This innovative volume demonstrates
that contemporary exhumations are as much a source of personal,
historical, and criminal evidence as instruments of redress for
victims through legal accountability and memory politics.
Contributors: Zoe Crossland, Francisco Ferrandiz, Luis Fondebrider,
Iosif Kovras, Heonik Kwon, Isaias Rojas-Perez, Antonius C. G. M.
Robben, Elena Lesley, Katerina Stefatos, Francesc Torres, Sarah
Wagner, Richard Ashby Wilson.
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