Michelle Caswell. Archiving the Unspeakable. Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia

Looking back at the twentieth century one cannot be ignorant of or remain unperturbed by the miscellaneous cases of human suffering in the forms of mass murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing (including the examples of the Holocaust, the Rwanda genocide, mass killings during the South Asian Partitio...

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In:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner,
Main Author: Khan, Sayma
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire 2021
Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:Looking back at the twentieth century one cannot be ignorant of or remain unperturbed by the miscellaneous cases of human suffering in the forms of mass murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing (including the examples of the Holocaust, the Rwanda genocide, mass killings during the South Asian Partition, the Cambodian genocide, and the Armenian genocide, to name but a few). In the aftermath of genocide both collective remembrance and collective amnesia prevailed in different contexts to deal wit...