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"The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity,' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.
Crimes against humanity. --- Transitional justice. --- Crime --- International crimes --- Genocide --- War crimes --- Justice --- Human rights --- Crimes against humanity --- Transitional justice --- Law of armed conflicts. Humanitarian law --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure
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Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants-almost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.
GENOCIDE -- 327.6 --- POLITICAL ATROCITIES -- 327.6 --- CAMBODIA -- 327.6 --- Political atrocities --- Genocide --- Cambodia --- Politics and government --- 1970s. --- anthropological analysis. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- cambodia. --- cambodian culture. --- cambodian genocide. --- cultural knowledge. --- cultural studies. --- death toll. --- execution. --- genocidal ideologies. --- history of violence. --- human motivation. --- human psychology. --- human rights. --- illness. --- khmer rouge. --- malnutrition. --- mass murder. --- millions dead. --- nazi regime. --- nonfiction. --- origins of genocide. --- overwork. --- perceived differences. --- political movement. --- political violence. --- social analysis. --- southeast asia. --- starvation. --- violence.
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During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orders. In 'Man or Monster?' Alexander Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of Cambodia's genocide. Interested in how a person becomes a torturer and executioner as well as the law's ability to grapple with crimes against humanity, Hinton adapts Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil" to consider how the potential for violence is embedded in the everyday ways people articulate meaning and comprehend the world.
Trials (Crimes against humanity) --- Kang, Kech Ieu, --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Tuol Sleng (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia) --- Crimes against humanity --- War crime trials --- Ieu, Kang Kech, --- Duch, --- Deuch, --- Hang Pin, --- Kaing, Guek Eav, --- Kang, Kek Iew, --- Kaing, Kek Iev, --- Kaṃng, Hkekʻāv, --- Duc, --- S-21 (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia) --- Toul Sleng (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia) --- Anthropology --- Cambodia --- Chum Mey --- Khmer people --- Khmer Rouge --- Son Sen --- Sophea Duch --- Torture --- Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum --- S21 (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
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"This edited volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies, considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence, enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends"--
Peace --- Peace movements --- Anti-war movements --- Antiwar movements --- Protest movements, War --- War protest movements --- Social movements --- Study and teaching.
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Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust. The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection's coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well. Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies. Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Genocide --- History. --- History --- Genocide - History --- jProcesses of remembering and forgetting.
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"The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity,' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.
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