LEADER 03914cam a2200481Ii 4500001 269823 005 20240621233453.0 008 190221s2017 au a b 000 0 eng d 020 9783700320722 020 3700320728 035 (OCoLC)on1020792639 035 269823 049 LHMA 040 CDN |beng |erda |cCDN |dCDN |dOCLCF |dPLDHI |dHUELT |dEZ9 |dOHX |dTJC 050 4 HV6322.7 |b.M365 2017 050 4 HV6322.8 |b.M377 2017 245 00 Mapping the 'forensic turn' : |bengagements with materialities of mass death in Holocaust studies and beyond / |cZuzanna Dziuban (ed.). 264 1 Vienna : |bnew academic press, |c2017. 300 368 pages : |billustrations (some colour) ; |c23 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Beiträge des VWI zur Holocaustforschung ; |vBand 5 504 Includes bibliographical references. 520 "During recent decades, forensic investigation has become a standard response to the reality of mass graves resulting from genocides and various forms of political violence. From Argentina to Rwanda, from former Yugoslavia to Poland, the search for the sites of mass burial, the application of archaeological and forensic practices, and the use of advanced technologies to collect and analyse evidence have all played a major role in transforming former landscapes of violence into scenes of crime. Yet truth-finding is not the only driving force behind forensic investigations performed at the spaces marked by a difficult past: the issues of politics and justice are at stake, as are the dynamics of memory and mourning and of the future of post-conflict societies, framed through the prism of the relationships between the dead and the living. The diagnoses of the 'forensic turn' therefore open up a complex terrain shaped by the interplay of scientific protocols, political interest, ethical sensitivities, and materialities of mass death--bringing about a proliferation of practices and counter-practices, discourses and counterdiscourses, imageries and counter-imageries. Building upon this recognition, this book asks how the turn towards forensics both as a standardised practice in the search for and identification of bodies, as a paradigm shift in remembrance and as an emergent cultural sensitivity, extends beyond the sites where forensic science operates, and transforms the fields of social and human sciences, political activism, popular imagination, and art. Born out of debates held during the international workshop Forensic Turn in Holocaust Studies? at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute in June 2015, this books [sic] gathers contributions investigating theoretical, methodological, political and practical implications of the 'forensic turn' within and well beyond the (inter)disciplinary realm of Holocaust studies"--Back cover. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 611 07 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 650 0 Genocide. 650 0 Political violence. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 650 0 Mass burials. 650 0 Forensic anthropology. 650 0 Forensic sciences. 650 7 Forensic anthropology. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00931952 650 7 Genocide. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00940208 650 7 Mass burials. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01011211 650 04 Judenvernichtung |xVölkermord |xMassengrab |xGerichtliche Wissenschaften. 650 04 holokauszt |zzsidó |y1939-1945. 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 700 1 Dziuban, Zuzanna, |eeditor. 830 0 Beiträge zur Holocaustforschung des Wiener Wiesenthal Instituts für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) ; |vBd. 5. 856 42 |uhttp://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=55db421e734d49338ff3dd4289fc79ee&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm |zSummary 852 0 |bstacks |hHV6322.8 |i.M377 2017