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Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations book cover

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Conceptualizing Mass Violence Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations

Edited By Navras J. Aafreedi, Priya Singh Copyright 2021
288 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia. The essays explore and deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely... Read more

    Introduction

    1. Reading Mass Violence

    Navras J. Aafreedi and Priya Singh

    Part 1: Narratives

    2. Violence and Violations: Betrayal Narratives in Atrocity Accounts

    Dennis B. Klein

    3. Holocaust survivors in Mexico: Intersecting and Conflicting Narratives of Open Doors, Welcoming Society and Personal Hardships

    Daniela Gleizer and Yael Siman

    4. Historical Narratives, the Perpetuation of Trauma, and the Work of Vamık Volkan

    Reuven Firestone

    Part 2: Revisionism & Reconstruction

    5. Holocaust, Propaganda, and the Distortion of History in the Former Soviet Space

    Charles E. Ehrlich

    6. The Genocide of 1971 in Bangladesh: Lessons from History

    Srimanti Sarkar

    7. Holocaust Denial and Minimization in the Indian Urdu Press

    Md. Muddassir Quamar

    Part 3: Education

    8. Holocaust Studies in Australia: Moving from family and community remembrance to human rights and prevention of mass violence

    Suzanne D. Rutland and Suzanne Hampel

    9. New Developments in Holocaust & Genocide Education in South Africa: : The case study of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre

    Tali Nates

    10. A Case of Naive Normalization? India's Misbeliefs about Hitler and Schooling on the Holocaust

    Anubhav Roy

    11. Holocaust Education in India and its Challenges

    Navras J. Aafreedi

    Part 4: Reflections

    12. Sonderkommando Photo 4 and the Portrayal of the Invisible

    David Patterson

    13. Overcoming "Intimate Hatreds:" Reflections on Violence against Yazidis

    Güneş Murat Tezcür and Tutku Ayhan

    14. The State and its Margins: Changing Notions of Marginality in Turkey

    Anita Sengupta

    Part 5: Trauma

    15. Pinochet's Dictatorship and Reflections on Trauma in Chile: How much have we learned in terms of human rights?

    Nancy Nicholls Lopeandía

    Part 6: Memorialization

    16. ‘Grassroots’ Holocaust Museums: Revealing Untold Stories

    Stephanie Shosh Rotem

    17. Fabric, Food, Song: The Quiet Continuities in Bengali Life Seventy Years After Partition

    Rituparna Roy

    Part 7: Literature

    18. The Failure of Secular Publics and the Rise of the Jewish Religious Public in Nathan Englander’s For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

    Fuzail Asar Siddiqi

    Part 8: Dialogue & Reconciliation

    19. The 2002 Alexandria Summit and Its Follow Up

    David Rosen

    Biography

    Navras J. Aafreedi is Assistant Professor of History at Presidency University, Kolkata, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, New York. His publications include his monograph Jews, Judaizing Movements and the Traditions of Israelite Descent in South Asia.

    Priya Singh is Associate Director at Asia in Global Affairs (www.asiaingloblaffairs.in). Priya is a political scientist with an interest in issues pertaining to geo-politics, nationalism, post-nationalism, identity, state formation and gender. She has authored, edited and co-edited books on Israel and the Middle East.

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