[lbo-talk] Michael Turner picks apart Cooper's "Rorschach" analogy

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 11:31:03 PDT 2006


Oh really?! Do you really want to revisit, Lance Murdoch? http://www.google.com/search?q=michael+vickery+lance+murdoch

http://search.lbo-talk.org/search/swish.cgi?query=pugliese+lance+murdoch&submit=Search%21&metaname=swishdefault&sort=unixdate

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-July/015202.html http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-October/022543.html

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-July/015209.html

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-July/015203.html

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-August/016762.html

Turner read any of these?

A side note, Serge Thion, below, as those who have read Finkelkraut on French ultra-left Holocaust Denial and Cambodian-American Sophal Ear on Chomsky, Herman, Lacouture, Laura Summers, Kiernan, Chandler, Gareth Porter, and Malcolm Caldwell (killed by the KR), reads him w/caution.

Kiernan's book on Pol Pot and KR, was published by Verso.

http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/cambear2.htm The Khmer Rouge Canon 1975-1979: The Standard Total Academic View on Cambodia

http://www.preventgenocide.org/edu/pastgenocides/khmerrouge/resources/ Resources on the Khmer Rouge Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide in Cambodia

Resources on this website |Books and Articles | Reports | Survivor testimonies | Commemoration Film and Video | Websites (Last revised Oct. 28, 2005)

Other resources pages: Past Genocides 1901-1950: Hereros 1904 | Armenian 1915 | Holodomor 1933 | Shoah 1941 | Parajmos 1941 Past Genocides 1951-2000: East Bengal 1971 | Burundi 1972 | Cambodia 1975 | Guatemala 1982 | Iraqi Kurds 1988 | Bosnia 1992 | Rwanda 1994

Resources on this website

Resources on Genocide and related topics in Khmer

Books on Genocide and related topics in Vietnamese

Books and Articles [See the Resources page from Yale University's Cambodian Genocide Program , with extensive links to articles]

Elizabeth Becker, When the War Was Over: Cambodia's Revolution and the Voices of its People, 2nd Edition (New York: Simon and Schuster), 1998.

David P. Chandler, A History of Cambodia. 2nd Edition (Boulder, Colarado: Westview Press, 1996).

David P. Chandler and Ben Kiernan, editors, Revolution and Its Aftermath in Kampuchea: Eight Essays. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1983.

Includes Kiernan's importnant essay, "Wild Chickens, Farm Chickens and Cormorants: Kampuchea's Eastern Zone Under Pol Pot." Pages 136-211. and Serge Thion's "Chronology of Khmer Communism, 1940-82." Pages 291-319.

David P. Chandler, Ben Kiernan and Chanthou Boua,, Pol Pot plans the future : confidential leadership documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976-1977 (New Haven, Conn. : Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1988). 346 pp.

David P. Chandler, Voices from F-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison, Berkeley, University of California Press. 1

David P. Chandler, Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot. (Boulder:Westview Press, 1999).

Susan E. Cook, editor, Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives Preface by Ben Kiernan Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Genocide Studies Program Monograph Series no. 1, 2004.

Craig Etcheson, After the killing fields : lessons from the Cambodian genocide (Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005)

Chapters: 1. The Thirty Years War 2. A Desperate Time 3. After the Peace 4. Documenting Mass Murder 5. Centralized Terror 6. Terror in the East 7. Digging in the Killing Fields 8. The Persistence of Impunity 9. The Politics of Genocide Justice 10. Challenging the Culture of Impunity

Craig Etcheson, The Rise and Demise of Democratic Kampuchea (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984), 284pp

David Hawk, "International Human Rights Law and Democratic Kampuchea," International Journal of Politics, 16, No. 3, Fall 1986, 3-38.

Stephen R. Heder, Cambodian communism and the Vietnamese model (Bangkok, Thailand : White Lotus Press, 2004).

Alexander Laban Hinton, Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (University of California Press, 2005), 382 pp.

Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies. Alexander Laban Hinton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the editor of Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (California, 2002), Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (2002), and Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (1999). www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10221.html

Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996) 477 pp.

The first definitive account of the four-year reign of terror known as "Democratic Kampuchea." Working very closely with Cambodian sources, including interviews with hundreds of survivors and the archived "confessions" extracted by the Khmer Rouge from political prisoners just before their execution, Kiernan depicts the horrific nature of the Pol Pot regime with chilling specificity. His historical analysis makes a valuable contribution to understanding how they were able to come to power in the wake of the Vietnam War. Interview with Ben Kiernan

Ben Kiernan, How Pol Pot came to power : colonialism, nationalism, and communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975, 2nd ed. (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004) 430 pp.

Ben Kiernan and Chanthou Boua, editors, Peasants and Politics in Kampuchea, 1942-81. London: Zed Press, 1982.

Includes "The 1970 Peasant Uprisings Against Lon Nol." pages 206-223 and "The Samlaut Rebellion, 1967-68." Pages 166-205

Edward Kissi, "Genocide in Cambodia and Ethiopia"" in Ben Kiernan and Robert Gellately, editors, The specter of genocide : mass murder in historical perspective (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Gregory H. Stanton, "Blue Scarves and Yellow Stars: Classification and Symbolization in the Cambodian Genocide," Occasional Paper of the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies, April 1989 www.genocidewatch.org/bluescarves.htm

Michael Vickery, Cambodia, 1975-82 (Boston: South End Press, 1984).

Michael Vickery, Kampuchea: Politics, Economics, and Society (London: Frances Pinter, 1986).

Survivor Memoirs (see below)

Older Titles from 1980 and before:

Samphan Khieu, Cambodia's Economy and Industrial Development. (Trans., Laura Summers.) Ithaca, New York: Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1979.

François Ponchaud, Cambodia: Year Zero. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.

William Shawcross, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

Comparative Study :

Martin Shaw, War and genocide : organized killing in modern society, Malden, MA : Polity Press, June 2003.

A historical sociologist of war and global politics, with theoretical, empirical and political interests, Martin Shaw is the Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex. His previous book is Theory of the Global State: Globality as Unfinished Revolution (Cambridge University Press 2000). War and genocide includes the following chapters: War and slaughter; Genocide as a form of war(availbale online on Shaw's website); Organizing violence; Producing destruction; Thinking war; Killing spaces; Combatants and participants; Victims; Movements; Just peace Episodes The trenches; The Armenian genocide; Stalinism's mass murders; Nazism, war and the Holocaust; Japan's genocidal wars; Allied strategic bombing; Nuclear war-preparation; The Cambodian genocide; Genocidal war in Yugoslavia; War and genocide in Rwanda; The new Western way of war.

Benjamin A. Valentino (b. 1971), Final solutions : mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century, (Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004).

Eric D. Weitz, A century of genocide : utopias of race and nation, Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2003.

Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth century's major eruptions of genocide: the Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia. Drawing on historical sources as well as trial records, memoirs, novels, and poems, Weitz explains the prevalence of genocide in the twentieth century--and shows how and why it became so systematic and deadly. Weitz depicts the searing brutality of each genocide and traces its origins back to those most powerful categories of the modern world: race and nation. He demonstrates how, in each of the cases, a strong state pursuing utopia promoted a particular mix of extreme national and racial ideologies. Read the introduction ( http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/i7491.html)

Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide New York : Basic Books, 2002, 384 pp.

Chapter 6 of this book (p. 87-154) discusses Cambodia.

Book in Vietnamese

Tôi a´c diêt ch?ung c?ua bon Pôn P´ôt-Iêng Xa-Ry. Published/Created: Hà Nôi : Su´ thât, 1980. Description: 214 p. Subjects: Pol Pot. Ieng Sary. Parti communiste du Kampuchea. Political atrocities--Cambodia. Cambodia--Politics and government--1975-1979



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