Necropolitics
Subtitle: mass graves and exhumations in the age of human rights
By: edited by Francisco Ferrándiz and Antonius C.G.M. Robben ; foreword by Richard Ashby Wilson
Edition: First edition.
Series: Pennsylvania studies in human rights; Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780812247206; 9780812223972
Subjects: Forensic anthropology; Case studies; Exhumation; Identification; Mass burials; War victims
Other titles: Necropolitics (2015)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: The ethnography of exhumations  -- Francisco Ferrándiz and Antonius C.G.M. Robben; title: Forensic anthropology and the investigation of political violence : lessons learned from Latin America and the Balkans  -- Luis Fondebrider; title: Exhumations, territoriality, and necropolitics in Chile and Argentina  -- Antonius C.G.M. Robben; title: Korean War mass graves  -- Heonik Kwon; title: Mass graves, landscapes of terror : a Spanish tale  -- Francisco Ferrándiz; title: The quandaries of partial and commingled remains : Srebrenica's missing and Korean War casualties compared  -- Sarah Wagner -- Photo essay:; title: 9/11 : absence, sediment, and memory  -- Francesc Torres; title: Buried silences of the Greek Civil War  -- Katerina Stefatos and Iosif Kovras; title: Death in transition : the Truth Commission and the politics of reburial in postconflict Peru  -- Isaias Rojas-Perez; title: Death on display : bones and bodies in Cambodia and Rwanda -- Elena Lesley-- Epilogue /-- Zoë Crossland.