Digging for the disappeared : forensic science after atrocity / Adam Rosenblatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenblatt, Adam (Adam Richard), author.

Series:

Stanford studies in human rights.

Stanford Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forensic anthropology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Forensic anthropology.

Dead--Identification.

Dead.

Mass burials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is gathered and the dead are named. Adam Rosenblatt examines the ethical, political, and historical foundations of the rapidly growing field of forensic investigation, from the graves of the "disappeared" in Latin America to genocides in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to post–Saddam Hussein Iraq. In the process, he illustrates how forensic teams strive to balance the needs of war crimes tribunals, transitional governments, and the families of the missing in post-conflict nations. Digging for the Disappeared draws on interviews with key players in the field to present a new way to analyze and value the work forensic experts do at mass graves, shifting the discussion from an exclusive focus on the rights of the living to a rigorous analysis of the care of the dead. Rosenblatt tackles these heady, hard topics in order to extend human rights scholarship into the realm of the dead and the limited but powerful forms of repair available for victims of atrocity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Born at the Graves

Chapter 1. The Stakeholders in International Forensic Investigations

Chapter 2. The Politics of Grief

Chapter 3. Forensics of the Sacred

Chapter 4. Dead to Rights

Chapter Five. Caring for the Dead

Appendix

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804794886

080479488X

OCLC:

904686995