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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Mass murder"”.
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Mass murder and motivation : the Rwandan genocide
This project is about mass murderers and the motivation for becoming perpetrators of mass murder. The Rwandan genocide is chosen as a case study. The project strives to explain what seems inexplicable; why tens of thousands of Rwandan men and women turned into killers during the hundred days of …
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Realms of Remembered Violence: The Emergence of Mass Murder Memorials in the United States, 1986-2012
… research explores the new tradition of creating mass murder memorials in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century. Using written and oral history sources in combination with memorial designs, I explore the planning processes undertaken by five different communities: Virginia …
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Compulsory Death: A Historiographic Study of the Eugenics and Euthanasia Movements in Nazi Germany.
… and the argument as to wither or not the mass murder of European Jewry was a well planned event or a trial and error process that lead to mass murder.</p>
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The female family annihilator, restructuring traditional typologies: an exploratory study
Although both female and male mass murderers have been studied, less attention has been paid to women who commit mass murder. Current literature suggests mass murders committed by women, regardless of offender choice, are well planned, predisposing factors and precipitating events prior to the …
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Terror in the Ostland: The Genesis of Nazi Collaboration, 1941-42
… against the Soviet Union in 1941, entailing the mass murder of Eastern European and Soviet Jews with the mobile killing units of the Einsatzgruppen, in which Baltic citizens were highly represented. Specific battalions, most notably the Arājs Commando in Latvia, are used as examples to prove that …
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Singularity Deferred
… a near-victim of an unknown group's act of mass murder, and is forced to lead a mutiny against a ship's captain. In the course of events, he learns the necessity of taking control of his situation instead of being victimized by it. He sees the promise of a working anarchist society in …
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A space between : contemplating the post-Holocaust subject
… target of this policy. Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, but they were not the only victims. Approximately one and a half million Gypsies, at least 250 000 physically or mentally disabled people, three million Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Social …
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The experience of mesothelioma in Northern England
… and present the deaths due to mesothelioma as ‘mass murder’. State benefits and civil compensation procedures, and the Coroner’s investigation, create additional distress. Severe bereavement reactions have features of ‘tragic grief’. In spite of the severe symptom burden, less than half of the …
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Rethinking The Responsibility To Protect: Libya As A Case Study [before doctoral defense]
… and often controversial nature of addressing mass violence and human rights abuses. The world watched in horror as countless lives were lost to mass atrocities and other crimes. History is abundant with examples of the international community standing by and doing nothing as innocent people …
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In the absence of memory?: Jewish fate and dramatic representation; production and critical reception of Holocaust drama on the London stage 1945-1989
… might transcend the meaningless facticity of mass murder and the impulse to annihilation, and are drawn into those same dynamics of annihilation, evidenced by the erasure of Jewish identity and fate. This phenomenon remains largely, but not entirely, unremarked in the immediate critical …
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The emergence of incitement to genocide within the Nuremberg trial process: The case of Julius Streicher
… Hitler's extermination policy, leading to the mass murder of approximately six million Jews. On October I, 1946, the Tribunal held that Streicher's actions of 'incitement to murder and extermination' were classified as 'persecution' and found him guilty of crimes against humanity. This thesis …
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Re-presenting historical trauma: art-making and the affective imagination
… from 1941 taken amidst one of Nazi Germany's mass murder operations in Liepāja, Latvia, I encounter a young girl who looks to the ground and hides her face. Due to this visual obfuscation I direct a plea for her to look up and meet my gaze. The question as to why this photograph was taken …
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Unintelligible: A Memoir of Unassumable Inheritance
… that enabled the deportation, ghettoization and mass murder of the Budapest Jews. The intent of the memoir is not only to confess this legacy, but to meditate on its influence on the rest of the family – Captain Szörényi-Reischl’s loving wife, his son born during the war, and his granddaughter, …
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Narratives of Hostility and Survivance in Multiethnic American Literature, 1850-1903
… nineteenth century to its close, the majority of mass print media written by and controlled by the Anglo American population reveals an excess of discussion and debate regarding non-Anglo races, their places in Anglo society, and how to answer the race 'question' of each non-Anglo group. Yet, …
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An examination of media ethics and journalism pedagogy for news communicators: Theory and practice implications of a framing analysis of The Mercury (Tasmania)’s coverage of the Dunblane (March 1996) and Port Arthur (April 1996) mass shootings
Mass shootings have a birthday. After the murder of 16 people at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966, scholars from a range of disciplines have noted that the crime of random mass shootings went from an oddity, a rarity, to widespread. Inherent in the identification of a starting point is the …
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Show of Force: film, ghosts and genres of historical performance in the Indonesian genocide
… into naming names and revealing routines of mass murder hitherto obscene to official histories, and they do so through dramatisations and re-enactments manifestly conditioned by the codes of film and television genres. This latter point reveals the complex ways in which remembrance is always …
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The holocaust and apartheid: similarities and differences: a comparative study
… especially for the purpose of speeding up mass murder and body disposal. Apartheid killings in South Africa were carried out by traditional means on an individual basis and not by large-scale extermination techniques. The killings in South Africa were directed only at opponents of the …