Alexander Laban Hinton

Hidden Genocides

Power, Knowledge, Memory

Edited by Alexander Laban Hinton, Thomas La Pointe, and Douglas Irvin-Erickson

Rutgers University Press

Why are some cases of genocide prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? In this collection, contributors approach the question from a variety of perspectives and case studies, including the suppression of discussion about indigenous populations in the Americas and Australia, the reasons why the genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks long remained out of sight, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Copyright year: 2014

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Transitional Justice

Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence

Edited by Alexander Laban Hinton; Introduction by Alexander Laban Hinton

Rutgers University Press

How do societies come to terms with the aftermath of genocide and mass violence, and how might the international community contribute to this process? Recently, transitional justice mechanisms such as tribunals and truth commissions have emerged as a favored means of redress. Transitional Justice, the first edited collection in anthropology focused directly on this issue, argues that, however well-intentioned, transitional justice needs to more deeply grapple with the complexities of global and transnational involvements and the local on-the-ground realities with which they intersect.

Copyright year: 2011

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Genocide as Social Practice

Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas

By Daniel Feierstein; Translated by Douglas Andrew Town; Foreword by Alexander Laban Hinton

Rutgers University Press

Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, Argentinean social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political opponents between 1976 and 1983 and those pursued by the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945. He finds similarities, not in the extent of the horror but in terms of the goals of the perpetrators.

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Hidden Genocides

Power, Knowledge, Memory

Edited by Alexander Laban Hinton, Thomas La Pointe, and Douglas Irvin-Erickson

Rutgers University Press

Why are some cases of genocide prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? In this collection, contributors approach the question from a variety of perspectives and case studies, including the suppression of discussion about indigenous populations in the Americas and Australia, the reasons why the genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks long remained out of sight, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

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