Resource and Reading List

General:

Accessing Campscapes: Inclusive Strategies for European Conflicted Pasts: https://www.campscapes.org.

Anstett, Élisabeth, and Jean-Marc Dreyfus, eds (2015), Human remains and identification: mass violence, genocide and the “forensic turn.” Manchester: Manchester University Press.

The Bournemouth Protocol on Mass Grave Protection and Investigation (published 09/12/2020): https://issuu.com/bournemouthuniversity/docs/the_bournemouth_protocol_on_mass_grave_protection_

Appendix 1 of this protocol (p. 19) lists a number of relevant guidelines, handbooks, good practice manuals and protocols.

Bor, Güley, Working Against the Clock: Documenting Mass Graves of the Yazidis Killed by the Islamic State (2018): https://www.yazda.org/publications/documenting-mass-graves-of-the-yazidis-killed-by-the-islamic-state 

Crossland, Zoë (2013), Evidential Regimes of Forensic Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 42, 121-137.

Crossland, Zoë, & Rosemary A. Joyce, eds (2015), Disturbing bodies: perspectives on forensic anthropology (Santa Fe, NM: SAR).

Dreyfus, Jean-Marc, & Élisabeth Anstett, ads (2018), Human remains in society: Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence (Manchester University Press Open Access Content)

Etkind, Alexander (2013), Warped mourning: stories of the undead in the land of the unburied (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press).

Ferrándiz, Francisco, & Antonius C. G. M. Robben (2015), Necropolitics : Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights (Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania University Press).

Luckhurst, R. (2015) Digging Up Memories: Forensic Archaeology, Cultural Trauma and the Contemporary Mass Grave, in Coelsch-Foisner (ed.) Memorialisation (Heidelberg: Heidelberg University).

Mbembe, Achille (2019), Necropolitics (Durham, NC, Duke University Press).

Parish, Nina & Daniele Rugo, eds (2021), Memories from the margins: violence and counter-narratives, Journal of the British Academy, 9 (Supplement 3).

Rosenblatt, Adam (2015), Digging for the disappeared: forensic science after atrocity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press).

UN Manual: https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/files/UN_Manual_on_the_Effective_Prevention_and_Investigation[1].pdf

Verdery, Katherine (1999), The political lives of death bodies (New York: Columbia University Press).

Winter, Jay (1995), Sites of memory, sites of mourning: the Great War in European cultural history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Argentina:

Crossland, Zoë. 2002. Violent spaces: conflict over the reappearance of Argentina’s disappeared. In Matériel culture: the archaeology of twentieth-century conflict. John Schofield, William Gray Johnson, and Colleen M. Beck, eds. Pp. 114–131. London: Routledge.

Gatti, G. (2014), Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay: Identity and Meaning (New York, Baskingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan).

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Bačić, Nikola (2020), ‘Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Grabovica Massacre: The Soldiers Who Couldn’t Forget’, Balkan Transitional Justice, 9 September 2020. https://balkaninsight.com/2020/09/09/ bosnia-and-herzegovinas-grabovica-massacre-the-soldiers-who-couldnt-forget/

Centre for Nonviolent Action (2016), War of Memories: Places of Suffering and Remembrance of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Belgrade, Centre for Nonviolent Action). https://nenasilje.org/en/reports/

Funk, Julianne, Berry, Mary & Good, Nancy (eds) (2020), Healing and Peacebuilding After War: Transforming Trauma in Bosnia & Herzegovina (Oxford, Routledge).

Kostadinova, Tonka (2014), The Politics of Memory and the Post-conflict Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sofia, Centre for Advanced Study).

Palmberger, Monika (2016), How Generations Remember: Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina (London, Palgrave Macmillan).

Tokača, Mirsad et al. (2013), The Bosnian Book of the Dead (Sarajevo, Belgrade, Research and Documentation Center / Humanitarian Law Center).

Wagner, Sarah (2008), To know where he lies: DNA technology and the search for Srebrenica’s missing (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Chile:

Robben, Antonius C. G. M. 2015. Exhumations, territoriality and necropower in Chile and Argentina. In Necropolitics: mass graves and exhumations in the age of human rights. Francisco Ferrándiz and Antonius C. G. M. Robben, eds (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), pp.53-75.

Stern, Steve (2010), Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile (Durham, NC, Duke University Press)

Croatia:

Jansen, S. (2002), ‘The Violence of Memories: Local Narratives of the Past after Ethnic Cleansing in Croatia’, Rethinking History, 6(2): 77–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642520110112128

Colombia:

CNMH (Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica) (2013a), ¡Basta Ya! Colombia: Memorias de Guerra y Dignidad (Bogota, Colombia, Imprenta Nacional).

CNMH (Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica) (2013b), Huellas y rostros de la desparición forzada (1970–2010), Vol. II (Bogota, Colombia, CNMH).

CNMH (Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica) (2016), Hasta Encontrarlos. El Drama de La Desaparición Forzada En Colombia (Bogota, Colombia, CNMH).

CNMH (Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica) (2017), Memoria de La Infamia. Desaparición Forzada En El Magdalena Medio (Bogota, Colombia, CNMH).

CNMH (Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica) (2018), ‘Infografías – Observatorio de Memoria y Conflicto’. http://centrodememoriahistorica.gov.co/observatorio/infografias.

Dewhirst, P. & Kapur, A. (2015), ‘The Disappeared and Invisible. Revealing the Enduring Impact of Enforced Disappearance on Women’ (New York, International Center for Transitional Justice). https://www.ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Global-Gender-Disappearances-2015.pdf

Fiscalía General de la Nación (2018), ‘Día Internacional de las Víctimas de Desaparición Forzada’, Bogotá Boletín 23990 (Bogota, Colombia, Fiscalía General de la Nación). https://www.fiscalia. gov.co/colombia/derechos-humanos/dia-internacional-de-las-victimas-de-desaparicion-forzada.

Gómez López, A.M. & Patiño Umaña, A. (2007), ‘Who Is Missing? The Application of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology in Colombia’s Conflict’, in Roxana Ferllini (ed.) Forensic Archaeology and Human Rights Violations (Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas), 170–204.

Gómez-Sepúlveda, C.L. & Figueroa-Salamanca, H.H. (2019), ‘ “No olvidemos a los Muertos”: Animero y violencia en Puerto Berrío, Antioquia (Colombia)’, Revista CS, 28: 125–51.

Humphrey, M. (2018), ‘The Political Lives of the “Disappeared” in the Transition from Conflict to Peace in Colombia’, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 19(4): 452–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2018.1538671

Jelin, E. (1998), ‘The Minefields of Memory’, NACLA Report on the Americas, 32(2): 23–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.1998.11725654

Kaplan, O. (2017), Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316671887

Ministro de Salud y Protección Social, Fiscal General de la Nación, & Unidad para la Atención y Reparación Integral (2016), ‘Procedimiento de Entrega Digna de Cadáveres de Víctimas de Desaparición Forzada y Homicidio en el Marco del Conflicto Armado Interno’. https://www. minsalud.gov.co/sites/rid/Lists/BibliotecaDigital/RIDE/DE/PS/Procedimiento-entrega-digna- cadaveres.pdf.

Mingorance, F. & Arellana Bautista, E. (2019), Cartografía de la desaparición forzada en Colombia relato (siempre) incompleto de lo invisibilizado (Bogota, Colombia, Human Rights Everywhere).

Muñoz, M. & Pérez, M. (2005), ‘Reconstrucción de La Identidad de Los Desaparecidos (Archivo Biográfico Familiar de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo)’, in Alicia Lo Giúdice (ed.) Psicoanálisis: Restitución, Apropiación, Filiación (Buenos Aires, Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo), 219–31.
Ramírez Zapata, I. (2020), ‘La Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Dadas Por Desaparecidas a Razón y En Contexto Del Conflicto Armado En Colombia: Búsqueda Humanitaria y Autonomía Burocrática’, MA in Political Science, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.

Rodríguez Camacho, D. J. (2015), ‘Puerto Berrío: Entre Un Cementerio de Agua y Una Creciente de Lágrimas. Dimensiones Sociales, Políticas y Culturales de Las Prácticas Funerarias En El Conflicto Armado’, MA Cultural Studies, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/55701

Rudling, Adriana & Lorena Vega Dueñas (2021), ‘Liquid graves and meaning activism in the Colombian armed conflict: the “bottom-up” recovery and memorialisation of victims of forced disappearance’, Journal of the British Academy, 9(s3): 121–137.

Rutas del Conflicto (2019a), ‘Más de Mil Cuerpos Recuperados En 190 Ríos’. http://rutasdelconflicto.com/rios-vida-muerte/especial/mil-cuerpos.html.

Rutas del Conflicto (2019b), ‘El Silencio Del Río Grande’. http://rutasdelconflicto.com/rios-vida-muerte/ especial/rio-magdalena/el-silencio-rio.html.

Rutas del Conflicto (2020), ‘Ningún Nombre’. http://rutasdelconflicto.com/rios-vida-muerte/especial/ rio-magdalena/ningun-nombre.html.

Tate, W. (2007), Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press).

UBPD (2021), ‘La búsqueda en el cementerio de Puerto Berrío, Antioquia, avanza junto con la comunidad’. https://www.ubpdbusquedadesaparecidos.co/actualidad/los-cuerpos-del-cementerio-de- puerto-berrio-que-quieren-volver-con-sus-familias.

Unidad para las Víctimas (2017), ‘Registro Único de Víctimas (RUV)’. https://www.unidadvictimas.gov.co/es/registro-unico-de-victimas-ruv/37394.

Uribe, M.V. (2013), ‘Liquid Tombs for Colombia’s Disappeared’, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, 13(1): 18–20.

Cyprus:

Sant Cassia, P. (2005), Bodies of Evidence. Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus (Oxford, Berghahn Books).

Lebanon:

Beyhum, A. (2020), ‘Neither Dead nor Alive: Lebanon’s Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons’, Senior Projects Spring 2020, 65. https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2020/65/

Comaty, Lyna (2019), Post-conflict Transition in Lebanon: The Disappeared of the Civil War (London, Routledge)

Haugbolle, Sune (2010), War and Memory in Lebanon (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press)

Haugbolle, Sune (2019), ‘Memory Studies in the Middle East: Where Are We Coming From and Where Are We Going?’, Middle East Critique, 28(3): 279–88.

Haugbolle, Sune & Hastrup, Andres (2008), ‘Introduction: Outlines of a New Politics of Memory in the Middle East’, Mediterranean Politics, 13(2): 133–49.

Hermez, Sami (2017), War Is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon (Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania University Press)

ICTJ (International Center for Transitional Justice) (2013), Lebanon’s Legacy of Political Violence. A Mapping of Serious Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lebanon (1975–2008). https://www.ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Report-Lebanon-Mapping-2013-EN_0.pdf

ICTJ (International Center for Transitional Justice) (2014), How People Talk About the Lebanon Wars. A Study of the Perceptions and Expectations of Residents in Greater Beirut. https://www.ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Lebanon-FocusGroup-Report-2014.pdf

Kanafani-Zahar, Aïda (2011), Liban, la guerre et la mémoire (Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes).

Khalaf, Samir (2012), Lebanon Adrift: From Battleground to Playground (London, Saqi Books)

Launchbury, C., Tamraz, N., Célestin, R. & DalMolin, E. (eds) (2014), ‘War, Memory, Amnesia: Postwar Lebanon’, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 18(5).

Shahid, L. (2002), ‘The Sabra and Shatila Massacres: Eye-witness Reports’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 32(1): 36–58

Peru:

Rojas-Perez, Isaías (2017), Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes (Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press).

Rwanda:

Guyer, Sara (2009), ‘Rwanda's Bones’, boundary 2, 36(2): 155–175.

Jamar, Astrid & Laura Major (2022), ‘Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi: Vernacular of the Right to Truth’, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, 30(3): 56-78.

Major, Laura (2015), ‘Unearthing, untangling and re-articulating genocide corpses in Rwanda’, Critical African Studies, 7(2): 164-181.

Spain:

Aguilar, Paloma, and Francisco Ferrándiz (2015), Memory, media and spectacle: Interviú’s portrayal of Civil War exhumations in the early years of Spanish democracy. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 17(1):1–25.

Aragüete-Toribio, Zahira (2017), Producing history in Spanish Civil War exhumations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Baer, A. & N. Sznaider (2015), Ghosts of the Holocaust in Franco’s Mass Graves: Cosmopolitan Memories and the Politics of ‘Never Again’. Memory Studies 8(3): 1-17.

Bevernage, Berber, and Lore Colaert (2014), History from the grave? politics of time in Spain mass grave exhumations. Memory Studies 7(4):440–456.

de Kerangat, Zoé, (2017). Beyond local memories: exhumations of Francoism’s victims as counter-discourse during the Spanish transition to democracy. In The twentieth century in European memory: transcultural mediation and reception. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Tea Sindbaek, eds (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill), pp. 104-21.

Ferrándiz, Francisco (2008), Cries and whispers: exhuming and narrating defeat in Spain today. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 9(2):177–192.

Ferrándiz, Francisco (2013), Exhuming the defeated: Civil War mass graves in 21st-century Spain. American Ethnologist 40(1):38–54.

Ferrándiz, Francisco (2014), El pasado bajo tierra: exhumaciones contemporáneas de la Guerra Civil. Barcelona: Anthropos.

Ferrándiz, Francisco (2016), From tear to pixel: political correctness and digital emotions in the exhumation of mass graves from the Civil War. In Engaging the emotions in Spanish culture and history. Luisa Elena Delgado, Pura Fernández, and Jo Labanyi, eds (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press), pp. 242-61.

Ferrándiz, Francisco (2018), Death on the move: pantheons and reburials in Spanish Civil War exhumations. In A companion to the anthropology of death. Antonius C. G. M. Robben, ed (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley), pp. 189–204.

Ferrándiz, Francisco, and Alejandro Baer. 2008. Digital memory: the visual recording of mass grave exhumations in contemporary Spain. Forum: Qualitative Social Research 9(3):35. http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1152.

Ferrándiz, Francisco, and Marije Hristova. 2018. Literature review report on Spain. Research report for H2020 UNREST Project. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

Renshaw, Layla (2011), Exhuming loss: memory, materiality and mass graves of the Spanish Civil War (London: Routledge).

Silva, Emilio, and Santiago Macías (2003), Las fosas de Franco (Madrid: Temas de Hoy).

Solé i Barjau, Queralt (2008), Els morts clandestins: les fosses comunes de la Guerra Civil a Catalunya (1936–1939) (Barcelona: Afers).

The Valley of Cuelgamuros, history and context: A new memorial framework for Francis’s main monument - https://elvalledecuelgamuros.gob.es/en [The international section of this website is particularly useful for comparative work.]