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Human Remains and Identification: Mass Violence, Genocide, and the 'Forensic Turn'

Human Remains and Identification: Mass Violence, Genocide, and the 'Forensic Turn'

Anstett, Élisabeth
Dreyfus, Jean-Marc

Paperback

Series: Human Remains and Violence

CriminologyDeath & DyingGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1526116758
ISBN13: 9781526116758
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jun 1 2017
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Human remains and identification presents a pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. Previously absent from forensic debate, social scientists and historians here confront historical and contemporary exhumations with the application of social context to create an innovative and interdisciplinary dialogue, enlightening the political, social and legal aspects of mass crime and its aftermaths.

Through a ground-breaking selection of international case studies, Human remains and identification argues that the emergence of new technologies to facilitate the identification of dead bodies has led to a forensic turn, normalising exhumations as a method of dealing with human remains en masse. However, are these exhumations always made for legitimate reasons?

Multidisciplinary in scope, this book will appeal to readers interested in understanding this crucial phase of mass violence's aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, forensic science, law, politics and modern warfare.

The research program leading to this publication has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n 283-617.

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