The abject artefacts of memory: photographs from Cambodia's genocide

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The 1997 exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art of prisoners' photographs from the 1975-1979 Pol Pot era elicited the propensity to memorialize past violence from so-called peripheral states and peoples. Another choice would have been to politicize and specify these crimes, but that is not a path most American museum patrons take.

Legal issues & crime, Political Imprisonment,Detention, Social aspects, Crimes against, Exhibitions, Portrayals, Photographs, Political prisoners, Images, Photographic, Khmer Rouge, Cambodian history, Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York)

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'Art after Auschwitz is barbaric': Cultural ideology of silence through the politics of representation

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Issues concerning the values of agency by focusing on the social and cultural promotion of forms of representation are highlighted. The emergence of an ideology of science is proposed and issues of agency through power locations, manifestations of image control and mystification are examined.

United Kingdom, Evaluation, Criticism and interpretation, War poetry

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At the crossroads of ethnicity, place and identity: representations of northern people and regions in Finnish news discourse

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The author examines how the media representation of the Sami people of Northern Finland has changed since the Sami have become more politically visible. The author examines how greater newspaper coverage of Sami issues has furthered Sami causes.

Finland, Newspapers, Newspaper Publishers, Newspaper publishing, Media coverage, Finns, Samis

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