In Rwanda's Genocide Heritage, Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory. Drawing from oral histories and a newly available visual archive of memory work after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, she explores the human rights and government priorities that preserved killing sites and ......
Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey
An ethnographic account of the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day Turkey Temptations in Ruin examines the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day Turkey, focusing on the region of Mus (Moush). Anthropologist Alice von Bieberstein explores how the 1915 genocide and dispossession of ......
The story of the Rwandan Genocide has been told many times by scholars and journalists. Over the course of a hundred days in the spring and summer of 1994, about eight hundred thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu were murdered by their extremist Hutu compatriots. Those hundred days defined the final phase of a four-year civil war, also known as the ......
The story of the Rwandan Genocide has been told many times by scholars and journalists. Over the course of a hundred days in the spring and summer of 1994, about eight hundred thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu were murdered by their extremist Hutu compatriots. Those hundred days defined the final phase of a four-year civil war, also known as the ......
The German-Soviet War revises the conflict's generally accepted understanding through case studies, demonstrating the complexity of the war at the local level. The contributors assembled by Jeff Rutherford and Robert von Maier examine the multiplicity of experiences of individuals caught in this savage war, starting with the German war of ......
Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials
Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums Spanning six continents-Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America-this edited collection offers a comparative, transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that foregrounds the overlapping and often contested ......
Humanitarian Intervention and the Abuse of War Crimes Trials
International Injustice: Humanitarian Intervention and the Abuse of War Crimes Trials is a critical examination of Western military humanitarian interventions, with a particular focus on subsequent Western-organized war crimes trials that serve as post-facto justifications for the resort to force. International Injustice analyzes the NATO-led ......
An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi Fuehrer--Adolf Hitler. In a story passionately told by one of their descendants, the narrative begins as Benno Neuburger, a ......
An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi Fuehrer--Adolf Hitler. In a story passionately told by one of their descendants, the narrative begins as Benno Neuburger, a ......