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
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