{"title":"An atrocity archive: sensory expression of past-present-future","authors":"B. Thorne","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2021.1985251","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\n The violence and related crimes committed during the genocide against the Tutsi, April-July 1994, led to the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This international machinery of justice was located in the neighbouring country of Tanzania. The often complex, draining, meandering, problem-prone legal proceedings, sprawling across 21 years generated a rich and diverse archive containing fragments of pre-genocide, genocide and post-genocide periods. This somewhat side-lined archive is an interplay between plural experiences, memory, dialogue, power, and users. Atrocity archives and their material are sites of stimulation. They stimulate memory, dialogue, and the senses. The senses accompany all those who adventure with archive material. Accompany in both obvious and more subtle ways, which nonetheless can be profound. The stimulation of visual material is compelling, although sound, taste, touch, smell can equally weave, entwine and manifest during archival encounters.","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"15 1","pages":"272 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Law and Humanities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2021.1985251","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The violence and related crimes committed during the genocide against the Tutsi, April-July 1994, led to the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This international machinery of justice was located in the neighbouring country of Tanzania. The often complex, draining, meandering, problem-prone legal proceedings, sprawling across 21 years generated a rich and diverse archive containing fragments of pre-genocide, genocide and post-genocide periods. This somewhat side-lined archive is an interplay between plural experiences, memory, dialogue, power, and users. Atrocity archives and their material are sites of stimulation. They stimulate memory, dialogue, and the senses. The senses accompany all those who adventure with archive material. Accompany in both obvious and more subtle ways, which nonetheless can be profound. The stimulation of visual material is compelling, although sound, taste, touch, smell can equally weave, entwine and manifest during archival encounters.
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Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law. For this purpose, the arts and humanities disciplines are taken to include literature, history (including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics and the whole spectrum of performance and representational arts. The remit of the journal does not extend to consideration of the laws that regulate practical aspects of the arts and humanities (such as the law of intellectual property). Law and Humanities is principally concerned to engage with those aspects of human experience which are not empirically quantifiable or scientifically predictable. Each issue will carry four or five major articles of between 8,000 and 12,000 words each. The journal will also carry shorter papers (up to 4,000 words) sharing good practice in law and humanities education; reports of conferences; reviews of books, exhibitions, plays, concerts and other artistic publications.
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