Truth, Silence and Violence in Emerging States [electronic resource] : Histories of the Unspoken / edited by Aidan Russell.
Around the world in the twentieth century, political violence in emerging states gave rise to different kinds of silence within their societies. This book explores the histories of these silences, how they were made, maintained, evaded, and transformed. This book gives a comprehensive view of the on...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Regimes of silence; 2. Testimony: Silence as the cornerstone of impunity in Guatemala; 3. Constructing silence, terror, and dread: Operation Condor and state terror in Latin America; 4. Euphemism, censorship, and the vocabularies of silence in Burundi; 5. "What made the elephant rise up from the shade?" Relationships in transition and negotiating silence in Mozambique.
- 6. "A deafening silence" and "A piece of speech": Regimes of silence in an African Counter-Insurgency7. Petitioning Saddam: Voices from the Iraqi archives; 8. The world was silent? Global communities of resistance to the 1965 repression in the Cold War era; 9. A selective silence: Leonid Brezhnev's compromise over the memory of Stalin's crimes; 10. Censorship, indifference, oblivion: The Armenian genocide and its denial; Index.