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Paperback / softback. New. 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…
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- Title Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide
- Author Scott W. Murray (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Calgary Press, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Date 2017-02-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781552388853 / 1552388859
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.78 x 6.07 x 0.7 in (22.30 x 15.42 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Genocide, Atrocities
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017479251
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.663
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