Overview
- Address some of the key episodes of violent repression that have taken place in recent historyDemonstrates how state-of-the-art archaeological techniques can recover detailed scientific evidence to identify victims and to substantiate historical claims of murder and brutality
- Enhances public awareness and understandings of the crimes of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and demonstrates that state oppression has not been eradicated but has merely shifted geographical focus, and is ongoing in the second decade of the 21st century
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)
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This book offers new insights into the mechanisms of state control, systematic repression and mass violence focused on ethnic, political, class, and religious minorities in the recent past. The geographical and temporal scope of the volume breaks new ground as international scholars foreground how contemporary archaeology can be used to enhance the documentation and interpretation of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, to advance theoretical approaches to atrocities, and to broaden public understandings of how such regimes use violence and repression to hold on to power.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
James Symonds is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests focus on global historical and contemporary archaeology, and his recent projects have included work on urban archaeology; conflict archaeology; the archaeology of Diasporic communities; and archaeologies of poverty and inequality.
Pavel Vařeka is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His recent work has focused on later medieval, post-medieval, and modern settlement archaeology; building archaeology; ‘campscape’ archaeology; and archaeologies of communism. He has also led archaeological expeditions to the North Caucasus and Kyrgyzstan.
Pavel Vařeka is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His recent work has focused on later medieval, post-medieval, and modern settlement archaeology; building archaeology; ‘campscape’ archaeology; and archaeologies of communism. He has also led archaeological expeditions to the North Caucasus and Kyrgyzstan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression
Book Subtitle: Dark Modernities
Editors: James Symonds, Pavel Vařeka
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46683-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46682-4Published: 20 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46685-5Published: 20 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46683-1Published: 19 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 241
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Memory Studies, Cultural Theory