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Archiving the Unspeakable
Michelle Caswell
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Paperback. A series of photographic mug shots taken by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia are agents in an ongoing drama of unimaginable human suffering. Series: Critical Human Rights. Num Pages: 246 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMC; HBJF; HBLW; JHMC; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years in the late 1970s. The regime’s brutality has come to be symbolized by the multitude of black-and-white mug shots of prisoners taken at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands of “enemies of the state” were tortured before being sent to the Killing Fields. In Archiving the Unspeakable, Michelle Caswell traces the social life of these photographic records through the lens of archival studies and elucidates how, paradoxically, they have become agents of silence and witnessing, human ... Read more
Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years in the late 1970s. The regime’s brutality has come to be symbolized by the multitude of black-and-white mug shots of prisoners taken at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands of “enemies of the state” were tortured before being sent to the Killing Fields. In Archiving the Unspeakable, Michelle Caswell traces the social life of these photographic records through the lens of archival studies and elucidates how, paradoxically, they have become agents of silence and witnessing, human ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Series
Critical Human Rights
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299297541
SKU
V9780299297541
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About Michelle Caswell
Michelle Caswell is an assistant professor of archival studies in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, where she is also an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
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