Understanding Atrocities Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate th...

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Other Authors: Murray, Scott W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Calgary University of Calgary Press 2017
Series:Arts in Action
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