Understanding Atrocities : Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

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 th...

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Superior document:Arts in action, no. 1
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Place / Publishing House:Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Arts in action ; 1.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (296 p.)
Notes:MRU author.
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Table of Contents:
  • Atrocity and proto-genocide in Sri Lanka / Christopher Powell and Amarnath Amarasingam
  • Finding global justice locally at sites of atrocity : the case for the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center and Cemetery / Laura Beth Cohen
  • Troubling history, troubling law : the question of indigenous genocide in Canada / Adam Muller
  • The benefits and challenges of genocide education : a case study of the Armenian genocide / Raffi Sarkissian
  • "We charge genocide" : a historical petition all but forgotten and unknown / Steven Leonard Jacobs
  • "A tragedy to be sure" : heteropatriarchy, historical amnesia, and housing crises in Northern Ontario / Travis Kay, Kristin Burnett, and Lori Cambers
  • Remembering them all : including and excluding atrocity crime victims / Andrew R. Basso
  • Helping children understand atrocities : developing and implementing an undergraduate course titled War and genocide in children's literature / Sarah Minslow
  • Thinking about Nazi atrocities without thinking about Nazi atrocities : limited thinking as legacy in Schlink's The reader / Lorraine Markotic
  • Atrocity, banality and jouissance in performance / Donia Mounsef.