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Book Review: Perpetrator Cinema—Confronting Genocide In Cambodian Documentary, Sabah Carrim
Book Review: Perpetrator Cinema—Confronting Genocide In Cambodian Documentary, Sabah Carrim
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
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Arts & Literature: The Grey Zone, Sabah Carrim
Arts & Literature: The Grey Zone, Sabah Carrim
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
A manifesto of the grey areas in scenarios of mass killings.
S-21 As A Liminal Power Regime: Violently Othering Khmer Bodies Into Vietnamese Minds, Daniel Bultmann
S-21 As A Liminal Power Regime: Violently Othering Khmer Bodies Into Vietnamese Minds, Daniel Bultmann
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
The article analyzes the structure, scripts, and procedural logics behind the violent practices in S-21, the central prison of the Khmer Rouge, as a liminal power regime. The institution’s violent practices and operations served to reveal a “Vietnameseness” and/or otherness within the victims and to prove not only their guilt regarding a singular crime but also a long history of treason and collaboration with the Vietnamese, as well as a moral shortcoming that put them outside their own imagined Khmer moral universe and made them part of a larger scheme. The initial and—for the ideology of the revolution—problematic sameness of …
Film Review: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers, Timothy Williams
Film Review: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers, Timothy Williams
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
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Working With The Remains In Cambodia: Skeletal Analysis And Human Rights After Atrocity, Julie M. Fleischman
Working With The Remains In Cambodia: Skeletal Analysis And Human Rights After Atrocity, Julie M. Fleischman
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
This essay will discuss the research being conducted on Khmer Rouge-era human skeletal remains in Cambodia, and the implications of this work. First, the Cambodian project to conserve and analyze the remains at the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center (Choeung Ek) will be briefly discussed. This exceptional undertaking was the first complete scientific analysis of human remains from a Cambodian mass gravesite. Second, the author’s independent research at Choeung Ek and a collaborative project at another mass gravesite will be reviewed. The author’s research focuses on the traumatic injuries and demographics of the remains at Choeung Ek, while also incorporating cultural …