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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Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Milton Routledge c2019
Series:	Routledge Studies in Human Rights Routledge studies in human rights
Subjects:	Political violence / Developing countries / History / 20th century State-sponsored terrorism / Developing countries / History / 20th century Collective memory / Social aspects / Developing countries
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	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 ongoing evolutions and multiple faces of silence as a common strand in the struggles of state-building. It begins with chapters that examine the construction of "regimes of silence" as an act of power, and it continues through explorations of the ambiguous limits of speech within communities marked by this violence. It highlights national and transnational attempts to combat state silences, before concluding with a series of considerations of how these regimes of silence continue to be extrapolated in the gaps of records and written history. This volume explores histories of the composed silences of political violence across the emerging states of the late twentieth century, not solely as a present concern of aftermath or retrospection but as a diachronic social and political dimension of violence itself. This book makes a major original contribution to international history, as well as to the study of political terror, human rights violations, social recovery, and historical memory
Physical Description:	1 online resource (233 pages)
ISBN:	9781351141116 1351141112 9781351141109 1351141104 9781351141123 1351141120 9781351141093 1351141090