Citation

Apsel J. Hum. Rights Rev. 2010; 11(4): 581-584.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s12142-009-0154-y

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Do the effects of genocide and other mass violence ever end? How do people day in and day out cope with the presence/absence of such violence, with the loss and physical and mental injuries? In the last decade, more and more literature in genocide studies and related areas has addressed the ongoing challenges and complications of living in societies in the aftermath of genocide and other atrocities when the peak of violence subsides. The factors that lead up and contributed to the escalated violence are complicated, and so too are the aftershocks including how truth, memory, and representation become part of the struggle that follows. The levels of damage to individuals, cultures, and societies continue as the past is re-constructed, re-imagined, or forgotten from official commemorations and state hegemonic narratives to silence, fear, and sometimes terror among survivor populations. The role and reactions of anthropologists in studying these difficult processes become part of the stor...

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