The politics of lists
Subtitle: bureaucracy and genocide under the Khmer Rouge
By: James A. Tyner
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781946684400; 9781946684417
Subjects: Politics and government; Government information; Genocide; National security; Bureaucracy; History
Description: "The Politics of Lists analyzes thousands of newly available Cambodian documents both as sources of information and as objects worthy of study in and of themselves. How, Tyner asks, is recordkeeping implicated in the creation of political authority? What is the relationship between violence and bureaucracy? How can documents, as an anonymous technology capable of conveying great force, be understood in relation to newer technologies like drones? What does data create and what does it destroy? Through a theoretically informed, empirically grounded study of the Khmer Rouge security apparatus, Tyner shows that lists and telegrams have often proved as deadly as bullet and bombs"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Emerging from the shadows; title: A tale of two lists; title: Into the darkness; title: Mortal accountings.