Mark A. Wolfgram, Antigone’s Ghosts: The Long Legacy of War and Genocide in Five Countries. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2019. This ambitious interdisciplinary study analyzes five modern-day European and Asian countries whose populaces continue to contend with histories marked by deep civil strife. Analyzing post-WWII Germany and Japan, Francoist …
Carolyn J. Dean, The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. “By the end of the twentieth century,” Carolyn Dean writes as her opening sentence, “the ‘witness to genocide’ had become a pervasive icon of suffering humanity” (1). Such witnessing has been imbued with …
Alexander Laban Hinton, The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition …
Crystal Parikh. Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. What constitutes “the good life” …
Jess Melvin. The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder. Routledge, 2018. Jess Melvin has written a remarkable book. Based …
Addressing the history of racial injustices towards African Americans has been the litmus test of U.S. reconciliation efforts (Campbell, 2009). However, over …
Vincent Drulilolle and Roddy Brett, eds. The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies: Comparative and Analytical Perspectives. Palgrave, 2018. This volume seeks …
Norman Saadi Nikro and Sonja Hegasy, eds. The Social Life of Memory. Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco. Palgrave, 2017. …
The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America. Rachel Hatcher. Australia: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. A couple of years ago, as I …
Timothy Williams and Susanne Buckley-Zistel, eds. Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. …