Understanding Atrocities - Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide (Paperback)

Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other things, what are the limits of the law, of history, of literature, and of education in understanding and representing genocidal violence? What are the challenges we face in teaching and learning about extreme events such as these, and how does the language we use contribute to or impair what can be taught and learned about genocide? Who gets to decide if it's genocide and who its victims are? And how does the demonization of perpetrators of atrocity prevent us from confronting the complicity of others, or of ourselves? Through a multi-focused and multidisciplinary investigation of these questions, Understanding Atrocities demonstrates the vibrancy and breadth of the contemporary state of genocide studies. With contributions by: Amarnath Amarasingam, Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen, Travis Hay, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Scott W. Murray, Christopher Powell, and Raffi Sarkissian

General

Imprint:	University of Calgary Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	February 2017
Contributors:	Sarah Minslow • Donia Mounsef • Adam Muller • Christopher Powell • Raffi Sarkissian
Editors:	Scott W. Murray
Contributors:	Amarnath Amarasingam • Andrew R. Basso • Kristin Burnett • Lori Chambers
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-1-55238-885-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide
LSN:	1-55238-885-9
Barcode:	9781552388853

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