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The Aftermath of Mass Violence: A Negative Methodology

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Abstract

Recent anthropological works on the aftermath of mass violence can be studied as having generated a negative methodology. New work has addressed the gaps, voids, and hollows of knowledge production in and about sites of mass atrocity and is developing novel research practices within these schisms. While considering the (im)possibility of research as the condition of possibility (as well as the question) for anthropological (and historical) work on the long durée of mass violence, this review highlights some adverse ethnographic methods that have emerged (and have been conceptualized) in the interstices. A critical positionality vis-à-vis anthropology's positive outlook for evidentiary presences in the field has moved scholars of mass atrocity and its aftermath toward methods that would tarry in and through the negative.

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Keywords

mass violence, genocide, knowledge, methods

Journal Title

Annual Review of Anthropology

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0084-6570
1545-4290

Volume Title

49

Publisher

Annual Reviews Inc.

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European Research Council (284094)
European Research Council