Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

Amarasingam, Amarnath; Basso, Andrew R.; Burnett, Kristin; Chambers, Lori; Cohen, Laura Beth; Hay, Travis; Jacobs, Steven Leonard; Markotic, Lorraine; Minslow, Sarah; Mounsef, Donia; Muller, Adam; Powell, Christopher; Sarkissian, Raffi; Murray, Scott W.

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Amarasingam, A., Basso, A. R., Burnett, K., Chambers, L., Cohen, L. B., Hay, T., Jacobs, S. L., Markotic, L., Minslow, S., Mounsef, D., Muller, A., Powell, C., Sarkissian, R., Murray, S. W., & Murray, S. W. (2017). Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide. University of Calgary Press.

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Title: Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide
Contributor(s): Amarasingam, Amarnath
Basso, Andrew R.
Burnett, Kristin
Chambers, Lori
Cohen, Laura Beth
Hay, Travis
Jacobs, Steven Leonard
Markotic, Lorraine
Minslow, Sarah
Mounsef, Donia
Muller, Adam
Powell, Christopher
Sarkissian, Raffi
Murray, Scott W.
Description: Understanding Atrocities 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 demonization 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, Understanding Atrocities demonstrates the vibrancy and breadth of the contemporary state of genocide studies. 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
Date Issued: 2017
Type: book
Subject(s): Genocide
History
War
Atrocities
Teaching
Editor(s): Murray, Scott W.
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781552388853
Other Source Information: Murray, Scott W., ed. Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching genocide. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2017.
Sponsorship: Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Awards to Scholarly Publications Program
Library OA Fund
Copyright: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
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