Human remains and identification: Mass violence, genocide, and the ’forensic turn’ (Human Remains and Violence) - Hardcover

 
9780719097560: Human remains and identification: Mass violence, genocide, and the ’forensic turn’ (Human Remains and Violence)
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ISBN 10: 0719097568 ISBN 13: 9780719097560
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2015

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A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Élisabeth Anstett is a Researcher in Social Anthropology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, and a Director of the Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide programme funded by the European Research Council

Jean-Marc Dreyfus is Reader in Holocaust Studies at the University of Manchester and a Director of the Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide programme funded by the European Research Council

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Human remains and identification presents a pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. Previously absent from forensic debate, social scientists and historians here confront historical and contemporary exhumations with the application of social context to create an innovative and interdisciplinary dialogue. Never before has a single volume examined the context of motivations and interests behind these pursuits, each chapter enlightening the political, social, and legal aspects of mass crime and its aftermaths.

The book argues that the emergence of new technologies to facilitate the identification of dead bodies has led to a 'forensic turn', normalizing exhumations as a method of dealing with human remains en masse. However, are these exhumations always made for legitimate reasons? And what can we learn about societies from the way in which they deal with this consequence of mass violence?

Multidisciplinary in scope, this book presents a ground-breaking selection of international case studies, including the identification of corpses by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the resurfacing of human remains from the Gulag and the sites of Jewish massacres from the Holocaust. Human remains and identification will appeal to readers interested in understanding this crucial phase of mass violence’s aftermath, such as researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, forensic science, law, politics, and modern warfare.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719097568
ISBN 13 
9780719097560
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
264
Herausgeber
Anstett Élisabeth, Dreyfus Jean-Marc
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