Reconstructing Atrocity
Reconstructing Atrocity
This chapter explains the theoretical and methodological questions associated with the objective of this book to reconstruct social memory about atrocity. It examines whether different styles of human rights record keeping influence social memory about state violence, and whether social and research perception of atrocity workers influence how their violence is written about and remembered. The chapter also investigates whether the moral sensitivity of researchers to writing an ethnography of atrocity shapes what they write and what become the facts of public knowledge.
Keywords: social memory, atrocity, human rights, state violence, atrocity workers, moral sensitivity, researchers, public knowledge
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