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  1. De la destructivité humaine
    fragments sur le Béhémoth
    Author: Rabinovitch, Gérard
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Presses Univ. de France, Paris

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    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9782130568292
    Edition: 1. éd.
    Series: <<La>> condition humaine
    Subjects: Genocide; Genocide; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Genocide; Rwanda
    Scope: 161 S., 20 cm
  2. Holocaust images and picturing catastrophe
    the cultural politics of seeing
    Author: Buettner, Angi
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham [u.a]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781409407652; 1409407659
    RVK Categories: MS 7950 ; MS 7960 ; MS 7965
    Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art; Genocide in art; Political violence in art; Art; Genocide; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.; Genocide in mass media.
    Scope: VI, 200 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [177] - 195
  3. Visualizing Atrocity
    Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness
    Author: Hartouni, Valerie
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt’s provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our... more

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    Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt’s provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism’s broader, constitutive, and recurrent features. These myths are inextricably tied to and reinforced viscerally by the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps at the war’s end and played an especially important, evidentiary role in the postwar trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking and seeing were first established with respect to these images that were later reinforced and institutionalized through Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem as simply part of the fabric of historical fact. They have come to constitute a certain visual rhetoric that now circumscribes the moral and political fields and powerfully assists in contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt’s claims about the "banality of evil" work to disrupt this visual rhetoric. More significantly still, they direct our attention well beyond the figure of Eichmann to a world organized now as then by practices and processes that while designed to sustain and even enhance life work as well to efface it

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780814738993
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    Series: Critical Cultural Communication ; 3
    Subjects: LAW / Media & the Law; Genocide; Genocide; Good and evil; Good and evil; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); War crime trials; War crime trials; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Das Böse
    Other subjects: Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975): Eichmann in Jerusalem
    Scope: 1 online resource
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  4. Traces of Trauma
    Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide
    Author: Ly, Boreth
    Published: [2019]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

    How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of... more

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    How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and intellectuals, the erasure of individual and institutional cultural memory all caused great damage to Cambodian arts, culture, and society. Author Boreth Ly explores the "traces" of this haunting past in order to understand how Cambodians at home and in the diasporas deal with trauma on such a vast scale.Ly maintains that the production of visual culture by contemporary Cambodian artists and writers-photographers, filmmakers, court dancers, and poets-embodies traces of trauma, scars leaving an indelible mark on the body and the psyche. His book considers artists of different generations and family experiences: a Cambodian-American woman whose father sent her as a baby to the United States to be adopted; the Cambodian-French film-maker, Rithy Panh, himself a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, whose film The Missing Picture was nominated for an Oscar in 2014; a young Cambodian artist born in 1988-part of the "post-memory" generation. The works discussed include a variety of materials and remnants from the historical past: the broken pieces of a shattered clay pot, the scarred landscape of bomb craters, the traditional symbolism of the checkered scarf called krama, as well as the absence of a visual archive.Boreth Ly's poignant book explores obdurate traces that are fragmented and partial, like the acts of remembering and forgetting. His interdisciplinary approach, combining art history, visual studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, religion, and philosophy, is particularly attuned to the diverse body of material discussed in his book, which includes photographs, video installations, performance art, poetry, and mixed media. By analyzing these works through the lens of trauma, he shows how expressions of a national trauma can contribute to healing and the reclamation of national identity

     
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    Contributor: Chandler, David P. (Publisher); Kipp, Rita Smith (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780824856090
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    Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ; 66
    Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes; Arts, Cambodian; Genocide; Nationalism and the arts; Fotografie; Künste; Völkermord <Motiv>; Kollektives Gedächtnis <Motiv>; Trauma <Motiv>; Nationalbewusstsein <Motiv>; Rezeption; Malerei; Tanz; Installation <Kunst>; Völkermord
    Scope: 1 online resource (190 pages), 29 color, 7 b&w illustrations
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  5. The Holocaust/genocide template in Eastern Europe
    Contributor: Radonić, Ljiljana (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London

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    Contributor: Radonić, Ljiljana (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781032086644
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    (Uk)020162818
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    Subjects: Genocide; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Collective memory; Authoritarianism; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Judenvernichtung <Motiv>
    Scope: viii, 150 Seiten, 25 cm
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    Originally published: 2020

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  6. The rhetoric of genocide
    death as a text
    Author: Voth, Ben
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  Lexington Books, Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780739195321; 9780739182055; 9780739182062
    Series: Lexington studies in political communication
    Subjects: Genocide; Communication; Völkermord; Kommunikation; Rhetorik
    Scope: vii, 163 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
  7. Perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence
    action, motivations and dynamics
    Contributor: Williams, Timothy (Herausgeber); Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; New York

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    Contributor: Williams, Timothy (Herausgeber); Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781351175869; 9781351175852; 9781351175845
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    Series: Routledge studies in genocide and crimes against humanity
    Subjects: Genocide; Mass murder; Violence; Täterschaft; Gewalt; Völkermord; Täter; Motivation; Massenmord
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 213 Seiten), Diagramme
  8. Perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence
    action, motivations and dynamics
    Contributor: Williams, Timothy (Herausgeber); Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; New York

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    Contributor: Williams, Timothy (Herausgeber); Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780815386179
    Series: Routledge studies in genocide and crimes against humanity
    Subjects: Genocide; Mass murder; Violence; Gewalt; Motivation; Massenmord; Täterschaft; Völkermord; Täter
    Scope: xi, 213 Seiten, Diagramme
  9. Heimatkunde
    Aufsätze und Reden
    Author: Walser, Martin
    Published: 1968
    Publisher:  Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main

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    Language: German
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    RVK Categories: GN 9558
    Edition: 1. - 12. Tsd.
    Series: Edition Suhrkamp ; 269.
    Subjects: Genocide; Massamedia; Vietnam-oorlog; Volkskunde; Massenmedien; Medien; Vietnamkrieg; Genocide; Mass media; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    Scope: 125 S.
  10. Heimatkunde
    Aufsätze und Reden
    Author: Walser, Martin
    Published: 1972
    Publisher:  Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: GN 9558
    Edition: 2. Auflage
    Series: Edition Suhrkamp ; 269
    Subjects: Geschichte; Massenmedien; Authors, German; Authors, German; Genocide; Mass media
    Scope: 125 Seiten
  11. Le génocide dans la fiction romanesque
    histoire et représentation
    Author: Ṿardi, Sharloṭ
    Published: 1986
    Publisher:  PUF, Paris

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    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 2130389716
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Edition: 1. éd.
    Series: Ecriture
    Subjects: Genocide; Génocide dans la littérature; Literaire thema's; Roman - Thèmes, motifs; Fiction; Genocide in literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Judenvernichtung; Roman; Völkermord <Motiv>
    Scope: 179 S.
  12. Génocide, l'Arménie oubliée
    Author: Pernin, Muriel
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Syros, Paris

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  13. Literary responses to catastrophe
    a comparison of the Armenian and the Jewish experience
    Author: Peroomian, Rubina
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Scholars Press, Atlanta, Ga.

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  14. De l'indifférence
    essai sur la banalisation du mal
    Author: Delacampagne, Christian
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Jacob, Paris

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  15. Gateway to limbo
    Science Fiction
    Author: Lampton, Chris
    Published: 1980
    Publisher:  Sidgwick & Jackson, London

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0283985941
    RVK Categories: HG 861
    Edition: Neudr. London 1981
    Series: Science fiction special. ; 38.
    Subjects: Fiction in English, 1900- Texts; Genocide; Life on other planets; Revolutionaries
    Scope: 184 S.
  16. Heimatkunde
    Aufsätze und Reden
    Author: Walser, Martin
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 3518133152
    RVK Categories: GN 9558
    Edition: Einmalige Sonderausg.
    Series: Edition Suhrkamp ; 3315
    Subjects: Genocide; Literatur; Massamedia; Vietnam-oorlog; Volkskunde; Geschichte; Medien; Politik; Culture
    Scope: 125 S.
  17. Akikért nem szólt a harang
    Author: Illés, Sándor
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Tevan K., [s.l.]

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    Language: Hungarian
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9637900209
    RVK Categories: EK 2800
    Edition: 2. kiad.
    Subjects: Geschichte; Genocide; Hungarians; Magyaren; Massaker
    Scope: 208 S.
  18. Weoogo
    poèmes d'exil
    Author: Sissao, Alain Joseph
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Harmattan, Paris [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 2747583643; 9782747583640
    RVK Categories: IJ 99999
    Subjects: African poetry; Alienation (Social psychology); Despair; Genocide; Loneliness
    Scope: 77 S.
  19. Confronting evils
    terrorism, torture, genocide
    Author: Card, Claudia
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780521899611; 9780521728362
    RVK Categories: CC 7200
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Terrorismus; Good and evil; Terrorism; Torture; Genocide; Folter; Völkermord; Philosophie; Ethik; Terrorismus; Das Böse
    Scope: XIX, 329 S.
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    "In this new contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on the inexcusability - rather than the culpability - of atrocities, Card examines the tension between responding to evils and preserving humanitarian values. This stimulating and often provocative book contends that understanding the evils in terrorism, torture and genocide enables us to recognise similar evils in everyday life: daily life under oppressive regimes and in racist environments; violence against women, including in the home; violence and executions in prisons; hate crimes; and violence against animals. Card analyses torture, terrorism and genocide in the light of recent atrocities, considering whether there can be moral justifications for terrorism and torture, and providing conceptual tools to distinguish genocide from non-genocidal mass slaughter"-- Provided by publisher.

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  20. La stratégie des antilopes
    récits
    Author: Hatzfeld, Jean
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Seuil, Paris

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    Language: French
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    ISBN: 9782020962292
    RVK Categories: MI 55094 ; IH 91900
    Series: Fiction & Cie
    Subjects: Geschichte; Gesellschaft; Genocide; Hutu (African people); Reconciliation; Tutsi (African people); Täter; Verbrechensopfer; Begegnung; Völkermord in Ruanda; Bewältigung
    Scope: 302 S., Kt.
  21. The psychology of good and evil
    why children, adults, and groups help and harm others
    Author: Staub, Ervin
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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  22. Moisson de crânes
    textes pour le Rwanda
    Author: Waberi, Abdourahman A.
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  <<Le>> Serpent à Plumes, Paris

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  23. Un génocide sans importance
    la Françafrique au Rwanda
    Author: Gouteux, Jean-Paul
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Éd. Tahin Party, Lyon

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    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 2912631041
    RVK Categories: MI 55094
    Edition: 2. éd.
    Subjects: Außenpolitik; Geschichte; Politik; Genocide; Hutu (African people); Tutsi (African people); Völkermord in Ruanda; Postkolonialismus
    Scope: 157 S.
  24. God, Gulliver and genocide
    barbarism and the European imagination, 1492 - 1945
    Author: Rawson, Claude
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    "When we say certain people 'ought to be shot', or exterminated from 'the face of the earth', we usually do so in the knowledge that we will not be thought to mean it literally. It is a figure of speech, partially sanitized by the conventions of... more

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    "When we say certain people 'ought to be shot', or exterminated from 'the face of the earth', we usually do so in the knowledge that we will not be thought to mean it literally. It is a figure of speech, partially sanitized by the conventions of social usage. We also create myths, stories, histories of which the same might be said. The victims in these stories may be whole peoples or groups of people, or even the whole of humanity, as when God said He would 'destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth'. The phrasing reverberates throughout scripture and human history. It has been applied to the people to Israel and to their enemies, to conquered savages, the Irish, the poor, and the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Its usage has ranged from the deadliest genocidal intentions, to satirical threats, fictional fantasies and colloquial expressions of undeadly irritation. We 'mean' it, don't mean it, and don't not mean it, and the demarcations are often unclear." "God, Gulliver, and Genocide explores the range of aggressions which inhabit the space between such figures of speech and their implementation, from the book of Genesis to the present day, but more especially in the period between the conquest to the Americas and the end of World War II. It examines a wide variety of authors and voices, chiefly Montaigne and Swift, but also Bartolome de las Casas and Jean de Lery, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, and travel-writers and ethnographers from Columbus and Vespucci to Bougainville and Cook. Behind all these stand those mass-catastrophes in Genesis, the Deluge and the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, with their grim and quizzical relation to the mass-slaughters of human history, culminating in the Second World War."--BOOK JACKET.

     
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  25. The oldest orphan
    L'aîné des orphelins
    Author: Monénembo, Tierno
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0803232241; 0803282850
    RVK Categories: IJ 99999
    Subjects: Völkermord; Geschichte; Genocide; Political atrocities
    Scope: xiii, 96 p., 24 cm
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