The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Mass burial: War and atrocity
Anstett, É. 2022
‘Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina’, Death Studies, 47:6, 666-678.
Azevedo, V. 2016
‘Restoring the dignity of the war’s disappeared? Exhumations of mass graves, restorative justice and compassion policies in Peru’, Human Remains and Violence, 2:2, 39-55.
Eltringham, N. 2015
‘Display, concealment and “culture”: the disposal of bodies in the 1994 Rwandan genocide’, in J-M. Dreyfus & É. Anstett (eds) Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 161-180.
Ferllini, R. & Croft, A. 2009
‘The Case of an Armenian mass grave’, Journal of Human Rights, 8:3.
Fontein, J. 2014
‘Remaking the dead: uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe’ in F. Stepputat (ed.) Governing the Dead: Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 114-140.
Hanson, I. 2023
‘Mass graves: the forensic investigation of the deaths, destruction and deletion of communities and their heritage’, The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice, 14:3, 359-401.
Keywords
Korb, A. 2017
‘The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war: Croatia, 1941-45′, in J-M Dreyfus. & É. Anstett (eds) Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 106-128.
Kwon, H. 2015
‘Korean War mass graves’, in F. Ferrándiz, & A. Robben (eds) Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 76-91.
Keywords
Pohlman, A. 2020
‘No place to remember: haunting and the search for mass graves in Indonesia’, in A. Hubbell, N. Akagawa, S. Rojas-Lizana, S. & A. Pohlman (eds) Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context, Springer International Publishing, 61-82.
Pollack, C. 2003
‘Intentions of burial: mourning, politics and memorials following the massacre at Srebrenica’, Death Studies, 27:2, 125-42.
Pollack, C. 2003
‘Burial at Srebrenica: linking place and trauma’, Social Science and Medicine, 56:4, 793-801.
Pressac, J. & Pelt, R. 1994
‘The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz’ in I. Gutman & M. Berenboum (eds) Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, Bloomington In.: Indiana University Press, 183-245.
Renshaw, L. 2011
Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War, Walnut Creek: West Coast.
