Necropolitics : : Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights / / ed. by Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Francisco Ferrándiz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Crossland, Zoë,; Ferrándiz, Francisco,; Fondebrider, Luis,; Kovras, Iosif,; Kwon, Heonik,; Lesley, Elena,; Robben, Antonius C. G. M.,; Rojas-Perez, Isaias,; Stefatos, Katerina,; Torres, Francesc,; Wagner, Sarah,; Wilson, Richard Ashby,
• HerausgeberIn: Ferrándiz, Francisco,; Robben, Antonius C. G. M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Wilson, Richard Ashby.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 20 illus.

The unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict, and unfinished mourning. Like silent testimonies to the wounds of history, these graves continue to inflict harm on communities and families that wish to bury or memor...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: The Ethnography of Exhumations
• PART I: Exhumations as Practice
• Chapter 1 Forensic Anthropology and the Investigation of Political Violence
• Chapter 2: Exhumations, Territoriality, and Necropolitics in Chile and Argentina
• Chapter 3. Korean War Mass Graves
• Chapter 4. Mass Graves, Landscapes of Terror
• Chapter 5. The Quandaries of Partial and Commingled Remains
• Photo Essay: 9/11: Absence, Sediment, and Memory
• Part II: Exhumations as Memory
• Chapter 6. Buried Silences of the Greek Civil War
• Chapter 7. Death in Transition
• Chapter 8. Death on Display
• Epilogue
• Contributors
• Index