Interrogating the Perpetrator: Violation, Culpability, and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780367028244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 136 str.

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials; Samuel Martinez

Opis

Interrogating the Perpetrator reverses the dominant human rights perspectives on violation and culpability, framed around the testimony of survivors, witnesses and protectors, to explore what insights emerge from perpetrator testimony and assess the possibility for more complex media and literary figurations of the perpetrator.

Spis treści

1. Interrogating the perpetrator: violation, culpability and human rights 2. ‘Victim/volunteer’: heroes versus perpetrators and the weight of US service-members’ pasts in Iraq and Afghanistan 3. War propaganda, war crimes, and post-conflict justice in Serbia: an ethnographic account 4. Refiguring the perpetrator: culpability, history and international criminal law’s impunity gap 5. False promise and new hope: dead perpetrators, imagined documents and emergent archival evidence 6. The space of sorrow: a historic video dialogue between survivors and perpetrators of the Cambodian killing fields 7. Perpetrating ourselves: reading human rights and responsibility otherwise 8. Victims, perpetrators, and the limits of human rights discourse in post-Palermo fiction about sex trafficking