Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide - Couverture souple

 
9781552388853: Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1552388859 ISBN 13 : 9781552388853
Editeur : University of Calgary Press, 2017

Synopsis

This 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 demonisation 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, the book demonstrates the vibrancy and breadth of the contemporary state of genocide studies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Scott W. Murray is Associate Professor of History at Mount Royal University. He was a Hess Faculty Fellow in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015, and a Holocaust Education Foundation Fellow at Northwestern University in 2013. He was also the recipient of the Calgary Jewish Community Award for Holocaust and Human Rights in 2011 and 2013.

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

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Éditeur
University of Calgary Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1552388859
ISBN 13 
9781552388853
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Éditeur
Murray Scott W.
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