RT Book
T1 Perpetrators: encountering humanity's dark side
T2 Stanford studies in human rights
A1 Robben, Antonius C. G. M. 1953-
A2 Hinton, Alexander Laban 1963-
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/181995403X
AB "Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, this thought-provoking book conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important piece of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6322.7
SN 9781503630673
SN 9781503634275
K1 Crimes against humanity : Case studies
K1 Political atrocities : Case studies
K1 Crimes against humanity : Cambodia
K1 Crimes against humanity : Argentina
K1 Political atrocities : Cambodia
K1 Political atrocities : Argentina
K1 Genocide : Cambodia
K1 Argentina : History : Dirty War, 1976-1983
K1 Argentinien : Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit
K1 Kambodscha : Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit