Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

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dc.contributor.authorMurray, Scott W.
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-02T17:44:45Z
dc.date.available2017-02-02T17:44:45Z
dc.date.issued2017-02
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding 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 Sarkissianen_US
dc.description.refereedYeseng
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34587
dc.identifier.issn2371-6134
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51806
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgary Presseng
dc.publisher.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.publisher.institutionMount Royal Universityen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttp://press.ucalgary.ca/eng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesArts in Action;1
dc.rightsAttribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectPolitical Scienceeng
dc.subjectWareng
dc.subjectGenocideeng
dc.subjectHistoryeng
dc.titleUnderstanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocideeng
dc.typebook
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