Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia by Caswell, Michelle
Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia by Caswell, Michelle

Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia

Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge...
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Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia by Caswell, Michelle

Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia

$90.48
Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia by Caswell, Michelle

Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia

$90.48
Author: Michelle Caswell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Winner, Waldo Gifford Leland Award, Society of American Archivists

Longlist, ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars

Author: Michelle Caswell
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.30w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780299297541

About the Author
Michelle Caswell is an assistant professor of archival studies in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is also an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
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