TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hawkes,Martine
TI  - Loss and Genocide in the Archives
SN  - 9781315593005
AV  - HM886 .H38 2018
U1  - 304.663 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Genocide
KW  - Sources
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Archives
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Part, I The archive; Martine Louise Hawkes --; chapter Introduction --; Pouring memory; Martine Louise Hawkes --; chapter 1 Power in the archives; Martine Louise Hawkes --; chapter 2 Expectations in the archive; Martine Louise Hawkes --; chapter 3 Archives and difficult events; Martine Louise Hawkes --; part, II Archive fever; Martine Louise Hawkes --; chapter 4 Counting to discount; Martine Louise Hawkes --; chapter 5 The language and logic of the archive; Martine Louise Hawkes --; part, III Remembering in the archive; Martine Louise Hawkes --; chapter 6 Archival filters; Martine Louise Hawkes --; chapter 7 The archive as a gate opener; Martine Louise Hawkes --; chapter 8 Loss and the archive; Martine Louise Hawkes
N2  - "Current official responses to genocide are largely situated within archives of various descriptions - museums, courts, libraries, memoirs and memorials. Through particular readings of the archive, Martine Hawkes examines genocide as it is understood, represented, and responded to. She asks what is expected of the archive - by curators, users and genocide survivors - and considers what role archives play in informing the ethics of how genocide is approached and remembered. This book argues that the archive is constructed and gathered from outside and after the event. The archive, in attempting to contain, comprehend and conclude the event of genocide, betrays a desire to reduce histories to limits, reason and unifiers. Here, the archive privileges a quantitative and definitional reading, engendering a limited and codified response to genocide. In this reading of genocide, much is lost and unknowable. In framing an ethics of approach, six stories, told initially as stand-alone narratives are presented. These accounts then trail recursive loops within the arguments to provide a reminder of the infinite nature of the approach of genocide. This book thus presents the ashes of the event, naming that which eludes and is elided from the archive and archival practice. It sounds a crisis of response to genocide, calling instead for hesitation and uncertainty to inform our otherwise enclosing, limiting, and reductively certain responses."--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317103332
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UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -