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- Title
- Containing testimony: archiving loss after genocide
- Author(s)
- Hawkes, Martine
- Abstract
- This article examines how representations of genocide are contained within an archive. In considering those archives that follow and attempt to approach, record and respond to acts of genocide, I will focus on testimonial archives and the modes by which certain testimonies fail to be held or 'admitted' within the archive. Drawing on examples from the ICTY, as well as from the Domestic Court in Belgrade, I call for a rethinking of the aims and expectations of those archives that are charged with collecting testimony. I suggest that is that which is unrepresented in and excluded from testimonies presented in a legal setting, which disrupts the notion that archives might contain, conclude and comprehend an event of trauma. I argue that the very inaccuracy and the subjectivity of relevance within an archive is highlighted by that which is absent or elided.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. The Swinburne Institute for Social Research
- Source
- Continuum, Vol. 26, no. 6 (Dec 2012), pp. 935-945
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media; 2001 Communication and Media Studies; 2002 Cultural Studies
- Keyword(s)
- Archives; Genocide; Historical records; Testimonies
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISSN
- 1030-4312
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.734600
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 Taylor & Francis.
- Peer reviewed
