Title Archiving the unspeakable : silence, memory, and the photographic record in Cambodia / Michelle Caswell

Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrated Series Critical human rights Critical human rights. Contents Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Silence, Agency, and the Social Life of Records -- 1. The Making of Records -- 2. The Making of Archives -- 3. The Making of Narratives -- 4. The Making of Commodities -- Conclusion: The Archival Performance of Human Rights and the Ethics of Looking -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary 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 rights and injustice as they are deployed at various moments in time and space. From their creation as Khmer Rouge administrative records to their transformation beginning in 1979 into museum displays, archival collections, and databases, the mug shots are key components in an ongoing drama of unimaginable human suffering.-- Provided by Publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Text in English Print version record Subject Tuol Sleng (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Parti communiste du Kampuchea SUBJECT Parti communiste du Kampuchea fast Tuol Sleng (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia) fast Rote Khmer gnd Subject Prisons -- Cambodia -- Archives Political atrocities -- Cambodia -- Archives Genocide -- Cambodia -- Archives Political prisoners -- Cambodia -- Archives Archives -- Cambodia HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia. Archives Genocide Political atrocities Political prisoners Prisons Kollektives Gedächtnis Fotografie Politischer Gefangener Politiska grymheter -- historia. Politiska fångar -- historia. Fängelser. SUBJECT Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979 -- Archives Subject Cambodia Cambodge Genre/Form History Archives Arkiv. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780299297534 0299297535

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