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The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies traces
the growth of an important interdisciplinary field, its
foundations, key debates and core concerns, as well as highlighting
current and emerging issues and approaches and pointing to new
directions for enquiry. With a focus on the perpetrators of mass
killings, political violence and genocide, the handbook is
concerned with a range of issues relating to the figure of the
perpetrator, from questions of definition, typology, and conceptual
analysis, to the study of motivations and group dynamics to
questions of guilt and responsibility, as well as representation
and memory politics. Offering an overview of the field, its
essential concepts and approaches, this foundational volume
presents contemporary perspectives on longstanding debates and
recent contributions to the field that significantly expand the
theoretical, temporal, political, and geographical discussion of
perpetrators and their representation through literature, film, and
art. It points to emerging areas and future trends in the field,
thus providing scholars with ideas or encouragement for future
research activity. As such, It will appeal to scholars across a
range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology,
criminology, philosophy, memory studies, psychology, political
science, literary studies, film studies, law, cultural studies and
visual art.
The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies traces
the growth of an important interdisciplinary field, its
foundations, key debates and core concerns, as well as highlighting
current and emerging issues and approaches and pointing to new
directions for enquiry. With a focus on the perpetrators of mass
killings, political violence and genocide, the handbook is
concerned with a range of issues relating to the figure of the
perpetrator, from questions of definition, typology, and conceptual
analysis, to the study of motivations and group dynamics to
questions of guilt and responsibility, as well as representation
and memory politics. Offering an overview of the field, its
essential concepts and approaches, this foundational volume
presents contemporary perspectives on longstanding debates and
recent contributions to the field that significantly expand the
theoretical, temporal, political, and geographical discussion of
perpetrators and their representation through literature, film, and
art. It points to emerging areas and future trends in the field,
thus providing scholars with ideas or encouragement for future
research activity. As such, It will appeal to scholars across a
range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology,
criminology, philosophy, memory studies, psychology, political
science, literary studies, film studies, law, cultural studies and
visual art.
The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become
inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are
suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical
memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book
proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification
precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses
of commemoration.
Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book
explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the
Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and
disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews
in and around Trieste. Reading these memorials together with
literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines "sites of memory" as
assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate
over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is
continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented.
In bringing perspectives from disability studies and
postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our
understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of
contemporary Europe.
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