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The Act Of Killing - Review, Robert Cribb
The Act Of Killing - Review, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Critically reviews Joshua Oppenheimer's celebrated film The Act of Killing. Suggests that the film appears to have been staged in sigificant places and that it gives a misleading impression of the character of the 1965-66 killings, especially by downplaying the role of the military in order to emphasise the psychopathic character of Anwar Congo and his friends.
The Use Of Technology For The Alzheimer's Patient: A Literature Review, Mary Willis
The Use Of Technology For The Alzheimer's Patient: A Literature Review, Mary Willis
Mary Willis
Technology has long been used to assist in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD); but not until recently has it been used in the treatment of symptoms of this debilitating disease. The current focus of technology use is assistance with activities of daily living (ADL’s) and patient safety. Research and experimentation have been conducted with devices to assist with memory loss in the Alzheimer’s patient. To better understand the need for technological assistance, it is necessary to first take a look at the current technology used and its effectiveness, the ethical issues involved with any medical technology, and to examine …
Heritage, Records & Trust: Understanding SocietyʼS Past Through Social Media?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Lisa P. Nathan
Heritage, Records & Trust: Understanding SocietyʼS Past Through Social Media?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Lisa P. Nathan
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
The relationship between the archival concept of the record requires examination and analysis in a social media context. If there is a desire to systematically collect and preserve accounts of daily life, archival theory must account for changing information systems, both the tools and the practices through which we engage them. At the same time system designers need to draw upon contemporary archival theory. The field of human computer interaction is uniquely positioned to work with archivists to both inform archival theory and to be informed by archival theory in recognition of the longer-term, multi-lifespan functions information systems play in …
Seeking Digital Redemption: The Future Of Forgiveness In The Internet Age, Meg Leta Ambrose
Seeking Digital Redemption: The Future Of Forgiveness In The Internet Age, Meg Leta Ambrose
Meg Leta Ambrose
The Right to be Forgotten, a controversial privacy right that allows users to make information about themselves less accessible after a period of time, is hailed as a pillar of information privacy in some countries while condemned as censorship in others. Psychological and behavioral research indicates that one’s capacity to forget features of the past - or remember them in a different way - is deeply connected to his or her power to forgive others and move on, which in turn, has dramatic impacts on well-being. Second chances and the reinvention of self are deeply intertwined with American history and …
Reading Ruins Against The Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality, Rebecca Gould
Reading Ruins Against The Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory, Rebecca Gould
Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Persuasive Visions: Film And Memory, Jessica M. Silbey
Persuasive Visions: Film And Memory, Jessica M. Silbey
Jessica Silbey
This commentary takes a new look at law and film studies through the lens of film as memory. Instead of describing film as evidence and foreordaining its role in truth-seeking processes, it thinks instead of film as individual, institutional and cultural memory, placing it squarely within the realm of contestability. Paralleling film genres, the commentary imagines four forms of memory that film could embody: memorabilia (cinema verite), memoirs (autobiographical and biographical film), ceremonial memorials (narrative film monuments of a life, person or institution), and mythic memory (dramatic fictional film). Imagining film as memory resituates film’s role in law (procedural, substantive …
Legal Storytelling: The Theory And The Practice - Reflective Writing Across The Curriculum, Nancy Levit
Legal Storytelling: The Theory And The Practice - Reflective Writing Across The Curriculum, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
This article concentrates on the theory of narrative or storytelling and addresses the reasons it is vital to encourage in law schools in non-clinical or primarily doctrinal courses. Section I traces the advent of storytelling in legal theory and practice: while lawyers have long recognized that part of their job is to tell their clients' stories, the legal academy was, for many years, resistant to narrative methodologies. Section II examines the current applications of Writing Across the Curriculum in law schools. Most exploratory writing tasks in law school come in clinical courses, although a few adventurous professors are adding reflective …
Memory, Traditionalism And Constitutionalism: Overcoming The Problem Of Nation Formation In Kenya., Charles M. Ngugi
Memory, Traditionalism And Constitutionalism: Overcoming The Problem Of Nation Formation In Kenya., Charles M. Ngugi
Charles Muiru Ngugi
Abstract: Since the dawn of the second liberation in Kenya in the early 1990s, Kenyans have been trying to write a new constitution to replace the independence constitution which was not a product of popular negotiation. Owing to numerous factors, this process has, as of December 2006, stalled. However, this exercise has revealed the difficulties and pitfalls inherent in forging a nation out of disparate ethnic groups. In this chapter, I argue that the on-going attempt at constitution making in Kenya is beset by many problems, not least of which are memory and traditionalism, and the conflation of the individual …
Unearthing The Truth: The Politics Of Exhumations In Cyprus And Spain, Iosif Kovras
Unearthing The Truth: The Politics Of Exhumations In Cyprus And Spain, Iosif Kovras
Iosif Kovras
Contrary to the experience of other countries with memories of clandestine violence and “missing persons”, where the mobilisation of the (civil) society towards “truth recovery” was immediate and pivotal, the societies of Cyprus and Spain remained silent for a remarkably long period of time. This article aspires to explain the reasons why both Cypriot communities and the Spanish society did not manage, until recently, to comprehensively address—not to mention resolve—the problem of “missing persons”. The recent emergence of the “politics of exhumations” in these two countries, which highlight issues related to truth recovery and collective memory, renders the attempt to …
Depicting The Dead: Commemoration Through Cists, Cairns And Symbols In Early Medieval Britain, Howard M. R. Williams
Depicting The Dead: Commemoration Through Cists, Cairns And Symbols In Early Medieval Britain, Howard M. R. Williams
Howard M. R. Williams
This article develops recent interpretations of mortuary practices as contexts for producing social memory and personhood to argue that early medieval cairns and mounds served to commemorate concepts of gender and genealogy. Commemorative strategies are identified in the composite character, shape and location of cairns and in their relationship with other commemorative monuments, namely Class I symbol-stones. The argument is developed through a consideration of the excavations of early medieval cists and cairns at Lundin Links in Fife.
Landscapes & Memories, Cornelius Holtorf, Howard M. R. Williams
Landscapes & Memories, Cornelius Holtorf, Howard M. R. Williams
Howard M. R. Williams
No abstract provided.
Keeping The Dead At Arm's Length, Howard M. R. Williams
Keeping The Dead At Arm's Length, Howard M. R. Williams
Howard M. R. Williams
Archaeologists have identified two kinds of furnished graves dating to the late fifth and sixth centuries AD from southern and eastern England: inhumation and cremation. While the ‘weapon burial rite’ is a frequent occurrence for inhumation graves, weapons are rarely found in cinerary urns. This article argues that this divergence may relate to the contrasting roles of cremation and inhumation as mortuary technologies of remembrance linked to alternative strategies for managing the powerful mnemonic agency of weapons.
Death Warmed Up: The Agency Of Bodies And Bones In Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Rites, Howard M. R. Williams
Death Warmed Up: The Agency Of Bodies And Bones In Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Rites, Howard M. R. Williams
Howard M. R. Williams
It is argued that recent archaeological theories of death and burial have tended to overlook the social and mnemonic agency of the dead body. Drawing upon anthropological, ethnographic and forensic analogies for the effects of fire on the human body, together with Gell’s theory of the agency of inanimate objects, the article explores the cremation rites of early Anglo-Saxon England. As a case study in the archaeological study of the mnemonic agency of bodies and bones it is suggested that cremation and postcremation rites in the 5th and 6th centuries AD in eastern England operated as technologies of remembrance. Cremation …
Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie
Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie
Robert Cribb
No abstract provided.
Context Dependent Memory: The Role Of Environmental Cues, Mitchell M. Metzger
Context Dependent Memory: The Role Of Environmental Cues, Mitchell M. Metzger
Mitchell Metzger, PhD
No abstract provided.