Documenting the ‘killing fields’ of Sri Lanka: atrocity images and the politics of habeas corpus extremis
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DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2018.1514154
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay focuses on the conditions of possibility underpinning the visualization of the end of the Sri Lankan war as a site of massive atrocity in need of international intervention. Highlighting the ease with… read more here.
Keywords: sri lanka; documenting killing; atrocity; corpus extremis ... See more keywords
New Ways of Thinking Recovery from Trauma in Arundhati Roy's the God of Small Things and Two other South Indian Narratives of Caste-based Atrocity
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DOI: 10.1080/1369801x.2017.1293555
Abstract: In this essay I argue that Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize winning novel, The God of Small Things, is deeply influenced by other southern Indian narratives of caste-based atrocity to be found in popular traditions as… read more here.
Keywords: arundhati roy; roy; trauma; atrocity ... See more keywords
‘Making Tragic Places’: dark tourism, kitsch and the commodification of atrocity
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DOI: 10.1080/14766825.2021.1960852
Abstract: Certain kinds of death that have been touristified and packaged as commodities have been referred to as 'dark tourism'. It is here where tragic memories are retailed as kitsch mementos in a society of the… read more here.
Keywords: tragic places; tourism; commodification; atrocity ... See more keywords
Atrocity’s Glass Booth
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DOI: 10.1093/clp/cuae004
Abstract: This paper foregrounds the defendant as a central actor in trials for mass atrocity. It excavates the practices and scripts of these trials to argue that they are driven by an impulse to construct flat… read more here.
Keywords: atrocity glass; glass booth; atrocity;
Boundary work against identity stress: atrocity stories among the Bretton Woods twins
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DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiaf007
Abstract: How do transnational actors handle institutional configurations in which they need or are expected to work together, even though cooperation is likely to diminish their distinctiveness? For officials of international organizations (IOs) whose mandates and… read more here.
Keywords: work; atrocity stories; identity stress; atrocity ... See more keywords
Atrocity Crime Responses in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Navigating Tensions in Multifaceted Approaches
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DOI: 10.1163/15718123-bja10210
Abstract: The post-conflict landscape of Bosnia and Herzegovina remains deeply fragmented, characterized by the interplay of international and domestic responses to atrocity crimes committed during the 1992–1995 war. The Dayton Peace Agreement established frameworks to address… read more here.
Keywords: atrocity crime; crime responses; atrocity; bosnia herzegovina ... See more keywords
Gaza and the failure of atrocity prevention: Placing the responsibility to protect on stronger cosmopolitan foundations
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DOI: 10.1177/00108367251321440
Abstract: The policy of key liberal Western states towards the latest conflagration in Israel-Gaza highlights the troubling connection between global harms and the failure to prevent mass atrocities. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) against genocide, war… read more here.
Keywords: responsibility protect; r2p; atrocity; prevention ... See more keywords
A Brutality-Based Approach to Identifying State-Led Atrocities
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DOI: 10.1177/00220027221077228
Abstract: The comparative study of atrocities and atrocity prevention faces several obstacles including a lack of consensus on the universe of cases and too few cases to statistically test alternative theories. The brutality-based (BB) conception is… read more here.
Keywords: brutality based; state led; based approach; atrocity ... See more keywords
‘Cheap Merchandise’: Atrocity and Undocumented Migrants in Transit in Mexico’s War on Drugs
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DOI: 10.1177/0896920520961815
Abstract: Undocumented migrants in transit in Mexico are victims of atrocity. The subject has been largely ignored by scholars, however, until recently when a number of migration experts became interested in the matter. Most observers argue… read more here.
Keywords: undocumented migrants; cheap merchandise; migration; atrocity ... See more keywords