Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- UOA26-92
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- ISBN
- 9781784534097
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output consists of the following elements: the single-authored chapter ‘Haneke and the Camps’ (pp. 187-202) and the joint design and editing (50% each, Pollock and Silverman) of the volume as a whole. The book is the published outcome of a conference entitled ‘Concentrationary Imaginaries/Imaginaries of Violence’ organised by Pollock and Silverman at the University of Leeds in April 2011. It is the third major outcome of an AHRC-funded project entitled ‘Concentrationary Memories and the Politics of Representation’ (Pollock and Silverman 2007-2011). The aim of the project as a whole was a) to return to the first two decades after the Second World War to look again at cultural and theoretical responses to the camps and the ‘concentrationary universe’ before the event became known as the Holocaust, and b) to establish the existence of what we call a ‘concentrationary imaginary’ by which contemporary culture has become saturated with the devices and strategies of the concentrationary universe but whose presence goes largely undetected. This volume is the major outcome of the second strand of this project. Silverman and Pollock were jointly responsible (50% each) for the overall project design and management, the organisation of the conferences, and the editing process for all four books that were the outcomes of the project.
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- Non-English
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