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The politics of lists : bureaucracy and genocide under the Khmer Rouge /
"The Politics of Lists analyzes thousands of newly available Cambodian documents both as sources of information and as objects worthy of study in and of themselves. How, Tyner asks, is recordkeeping implicated in the creation of political authority? What is the relationship between violence and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Politics of Lists analyzes thousands of newly available Cambodian documents both as sources of information and as objects worthy of study in and of themselves. How, Tyner asks, is recordkeeping implicated in the creation of political authority? What is the relationship between violence and bureaucracy? How can documents, as an anonymous technology capable of conveying great force, be understood in relation to newer technologies like drones? What does data create and what does it destroy? Through a theoretically informed, empirically grounded study of the Khmer Rouge security apparatus, Tyner shows that lists and telegrams have often proved as deadly as bullet and bombs"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1946684422 9781946684424 |