Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice

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Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice

In the context of the 2009 atrocities in Lanka, in this paper I attempt to think through a set of questions about visibility, witness, suffering, accountability and disposability as they are played out in the relations between the necro-geo-politics of global institutions and the patchworks of local...

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Main Author:	Perera, Suvendrini
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2015
Online Access:	http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol14no1_2015/perera_visibility.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30050

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