Exhuming Violent Histories - Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spains Past

Summary

Nicole Iturriaga offers an ethnographic examination of how Spanish human rights activists use forensic methods to challenge dominant histories, reshape collective memory, and create new forms of transitional justice. Exhuming Violent Histories sheds new light on how science and technology intersect with human rights and collective memory.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Iturriaga
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2022
• EAN: 9780231201124
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20112-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Spain, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Sociology & anthropology, Human rights, civil rights, Sociology and anthropology, HISTORY / Europe / Spain