Description
Book SynopsisInvestigates what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed
Table of ContentsPart I
1. ‘As if nothing ever happened’: massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community – Max Bergholz
2. A specialist: the daily work of Erich Muhsfeldt, Chief of the crematorium at Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp (1942–44) – Elissa Mailänder
3. Lands of Unkultur: mass violence, corpses and the Nazi imagination of the East – Michael McConnell
Part II
4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian corpses disappear – Raymond H Kévorkian
5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of mass incineration in fact, fiction and forensics – Robert Jan van Pelt
6. When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses of ‘disappeared detainees’ in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 – Mario Rannalletti (with the collaboration of Esteban Pontoriero)
Part III
7. State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran – Chowra Makaremi
8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary warfare in apartheid South Africa – Nicky Rousseau
9. The tutsi body in the 1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction and memory – Remi Korman
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