Necropolitics : mass graves and exhumations in the age of human rights / edited by Francisco Ferrándiz and Antonius C.G.M. Robben ; foreword by Richard Ashby Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferrándiz, Francisco, editor.

Robben, Antonius C. G. M., editor.

Wilson, Richard, 1964- writer of added text.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Standardized Title:

Necropolitics (2015)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Repatriation of war dead--Case studies.

Repatriation of war dead.

War victims--Identification--Case studies.

War victims.

Exhumation--Case studies.

Exhumation.

Mass burials--Case studies.

Mass burials.

Forensic anthropology--Case studies.

Forensic anthropology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Field guides.

Physical Description:

ix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Contents:

The ethnography of exhumations / Francisco Ferrándiz and Antonius C.G.M. Robben

Exhumations as practice. Forensic anthropology and the investigation of political violence : lessons learned from Latin America and the Balkans / Luis Fondebrider

Exhumations, territoriality, and necropolitics in Chile and Argentina / Antonius C.G.M. Robben

Korean War mass graves / Heonik Kwon

Mass graves, landscapes of terror : a Spanish tale / Francisco Ferrándiz

The quandaries of partial and commingled remains : Srebrenica's missing and Korean War casualties compared / Sarah Wagner

9/11 : absence, sediment, and memory : a photo essay / Francesc Torres

Exhumations as memory. Buried silences of the Greek Civil War / Katerina Stefatos and Iosif Kovras

Death in transition : the Truth Commission and the politics of reburial in postconflict Peru / Isaias Rojas-Perez

Death on display : bones and bodies in Cambodia and Rwanda / Elena Lesley Rozen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812247206

0812247205

OCLC:

893455592