10%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
Alexander Laban Hinton
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
Paperback. Alexander Laban Hinton offers a detailed analysis of a former Khmer Rouge security center commandant who was convicted for overseeing the interrogation, torture, and execution of nearly 20,000 Cambodians. Interested in how someone becomes an executioner, Hinton provides numerous ways to consider justice, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity. Num Pages: 360 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMC; 3JJ; HBJF; JHMC; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orders. In Man or Monster? Alexander Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of ... Read more
During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orders. In Man or Monster? Alexander Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
534g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822362739
SKU
V9780822362739
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Alexander Laban Hinton
Alexander Laban Hinton is Founding Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is coeditor of Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America, also published by Duke University Press, and author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide.
Reviews for Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
Compelling. . . . A highly original account.
Rachel Hughes
Law & Society Review
The book is a stunning achievement. . . . Hinton succeeds beautifully in drawing the reader into a confrontation with our own articulations and redactions of the world around us.
Catherine Bolten
American Anthropologist
Hinton's 'ethnodrama' ... Read more
Rachel Hughes
Law & Society Review
The book is a stunning achievement. . . . Hinton succeeds beautifully in drawing the reader into a confrontation with our own articulations and redactions of the world around us.
Catherine Bolten
American Anthropologist
Hinton's 'ethnodrama' ... Read more