Truth, silence and violence in emerging states : histories of the unspoken
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Truth, silence and violence in emerging states : histories of the unspoken
(Routledge studies in human rights / series editors, Mark Gibney, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Bonny Obhawoh)
Routledge, 2019
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Around the world in the twentieth century, political violence in emerging states gave rise to different kinds of silence within their societies. This book explores the histories of these silences, how they were made, maintained, evaded, and transformed.
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 begins with chapters that examine the construction of "regimes of silence" as an act of power, and it continues through explorations of the ambiguous limits of speech within communities marked by this violence. It highlights national and transnational attempts to combat state silences, before concluding with a series of considerations of how these regimes of silence continue to be extrapolated in the gaps of records and written history. This volume 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.
This book makes a major original contribution to international history, as well as to the study of political terror, human rights violations, social recovery, and historical memory.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Regimes of Silence [Aidan Russell] 2. Testimony: Silence as the Cornerstone of Impunity in Guatemala [Raul Molina Mejia] 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]
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