Truth, Silence and Violence in Emerging States: Histories of the Unspoken

ISBN-13: 9780815351610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 222 str.

Aidan Russell

Opis

This book gives a comprehensive view of the ongoing evolutions and multiple faces of silence as a common strand in the struggles of state-building. It explores histories of the composed silences of political violence across the emerging states of the late twentieth century, not solely as a present concern of aftermath or retrospection but as a diachronic social and political dimension of violence itself.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Regimes of Silence [Aidan Russell]  2. Testimony: Silence as the Cornerstone of Impunity in Guatemala [Raúl Molina Mejía]  3. Constructing Silence, Terror and Dread: Operation Condor and State Terror in Latin America [J. Patrice McSherry]  4. Euphemism, Censorship and the Vocabularies of Silence in Burundi [Aidan Russell]  5. "What Made the Elephant Rise Up from the Shade?": Relationships in Transition and Negotiating Silence in Mozambique [Victor Igreja]  6. "A Deafening Silence" and "A Piece of Speech": Regimes of Silence in an African Counter-Insurgency [Luise White]  7. Petitioning Sadaam: Voices from the Iraqi Archives [Alissa Walter]  8. The World Was Silent? Global Communities of Resistance to the 1965 Repression in the Cold War Era [Katharine McGregor]  9. A Selective Silence: Leonid Brezhnev’s Compromise over the Memory of Stalin’s Crimes [Barbara Martin]  10. Censorship, Indifference and Oblivion: The Armenian Genocide and its Denial [Vicken Cheterian]

O autorze

Aidan Russell is an Assistant Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies Geneva, and a former fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His forthcoming monograph is entitled Politics and Violence in Burundi: The Language of Truth at the End of Empire.