Interrogating the Perpetrator (eBook, PDF)

Violation, Culpability, and Human Rights
Redaktion: Schlund-Vials, Cathy J; Martínez, Samuel

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Produktbeschreibung

Interrogating the Perpetrator reverses the dominant human rights perspectives on violation and culpability, framed around the testimony of survivors, witnesses and protectors, to explore what insights emerge from perpetrator testimony and assess the possibility for more complex media and literary figurations of the perpetrator.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134976522
• Artikelnr.: 54036887

Autorenporträt

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Associate Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, USA) is author of two monographs: Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work. Her research interests include human rights, critical refugee studies, comparative ethnic studies, Asian American studies, and memory studies. Samuel Martínez (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut, USA) studies the rights mobilizations of Haitian immigrants and Haitian descendants in the Dominican Republic, north-south human rights knowledge exchange, and contemporary anti-slavery reporting.

Inhaltsangabe

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Refiguring the perpetrator: culpability, history and international criminal
law's impunity gap 5. False promise and new hope: dead perpetrators,
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historic video dialogue between survivors and perpetrators of the Cambodian
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