Human remains and identification: Mass violence, genocide, and the ‘forensic turn’ (Human Remains and Violence)

Synopsis

Introduction - Elisabeth Anstett And Jean-marc Dreyfus Part I: Agents 1. Bitter Legacies: A War Of Extermination, Grave Looting, And Culture Wars In The American West - Tony Platt 2. Final Chapter: Portraying The Exhumation And Reburial Of Polish Jewish Holocaust Victims In The Pages Of Yizkor Books - Gabriel Finder 3. Bykivnia: How Grave Robbers, Activists, And Foreigners Ended Official Silence About Stalin's Mass Graves Near Kiev - Karel Berkhoff 4. The Concealment Of Bodies During The Military Dictatorship In Uruguay (1973-84) - Jose Lopez Mazz Part Ii: Methods 5. State Secrets And Concealed Bodies: Exhumations Of Soviet-era Victims In Contemporary Russia - Viacheslav Bituitcki 6. A Mere Technical Exercise? Challenges And Technological Solutions To The Identification Of Individuals In Mass Grave Scenarios In The Modern Context - Tim Thompson And Gillian Fowler 7. Disassembling The Pieces, Reassembling The Social: The Forensic And Political Lives Of Mass Graves In Bosnia And Herzegovina - Sari Wastell And Admir Jugo Part Iii: Stakes 8. 'the Political Lives Of Dead Bodies' And 'the Disciplines Of The Dead': A View From South Africa - Nicky Rousseau 9. Bury Or Display? The Politics Of Exhumation In Post Genocide Rwanda - Remi Korman 10. Remembering The Japanese Occupation Massacres: Mass Graves In Post-war Malaysia - Frances Tay. Edited By Élisabeth Anstett And Jean-marc Dreyfus.