General Information

Author/Creator

Caswell, Michelle, author.

Language

English.

Published

Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

Physical Description

xii, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series

Critical human rights.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"While in power, the Khmer Rouge established a network of detention facilities in which they brought suspected "enemies" for interrogation, torture, and in most cases murder. The mos famous of these is Tuol Sleng in the capital, Phnom Penh, where prison officials took mug shots of detainees. Years later, the resulting photographs emerged as iconic images of the terror that the Khmer Rouge inflicted on Cambodia. Michelle Caswell places those haunting images at the center of her account and the aftermath of the visual archive. In so doing, she brings human rights scholarship into a revealing conversation with archival studies - and vice versa."

Subjects

Subject

Tuol Sleng (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

Parti communiste du Kampuchea.

Prisons > Cambodia > Archives.

Political atrocities > Cambodia > Archives.

Genocide > Cambodia > Archives.

Political prisoners > Cambodia > Archives.

Archives > Cambodia.

Cambodia > History > 1975-1979 > Archives.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Michelle Caswell.

Series

Critical human rights

ISBN

9780299297541

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	959.604/2 CAS		Reference	-

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