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Understanding Atrocities : Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

1 Feb 2017

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.--$cProvided by publisher.
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Authors

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

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Date published
2017.
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
304.6/63071
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781552388877 9781552388853
LCCN
HV6322.7
LCCN Item number
U53 2017eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (xiv, 281 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)kck00237500 (OCoLC)967788193 (CaOOCEL)452800
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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