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Elizabeth F. Drexler analyzes how the Indonesian state has sustained itself amid anxieties and insecurities generated by historical and human rights accounts of episodes of earlier violence. In her examination of the Aceh conflict, Drexler demonstrates the falsity of the reigning assumption of international human rights organizations that the exposure of past violence promotes accountability and reconciliation rather than the repetition of abuses. She stresses that failed human rights interventions can be more dangerous than unreconciled conflicts, since the international stage amplifies grievances and provides access for combatants to resources from outside the region. Violent conflict itself, as well as historical narratives of past violence, become critical economic and political capital, deepening the problem. The book concludes with a consideration of the improved prospects for peace in Aceh following the devastating 2004 tsunami. (University of Pennsylvania Press)

Through an analysis of violent conflict in Aceh, Indonesia, this article develops a series of principles for analyzing conflicts that appear to be intractable, noting how certain conflict narratives and interventions based on them participate in extending conflict. The claim that the separatist rebels called "GAM" exist is treated not as historical fact but as an inscrutable assertion that retrojects and projects the group's continuous existence, allowing political violence to be repeatedly reconstructed through convoluted collusions between antagonists whose own power is each predicated on the existence of the other.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Genocide, Truth, Memory, and Representation: An Introduction -- Part 1. TRUTH/MEMORY/REPRESENTATION -- 1. What Is an Anthropology of Genocide? Reflections on Field Research with Maya Survivors in Guatemala -- 2. Perilous Outcomes: International Monitoring and the Perpetuation of Violence in Sudan -- 3. Whose Genocide? Whose Truth? Representations of Victim and Perpetrator in Rwanda -- Part 2. TRUTH/MEMORY/REPRESENTATION -- 4. A Politics of Silences: Violence, Memory, and Treacherous Speech in Post-1965 Bali -- 5. The Limits of Empathy: Emotional Anesthesia and the Museum of Corpses in Post-Holocaust Germany -- 6. Forgotten Guatemala: Genocide, Truth, and Denial in Guatemala's Oriente -- Part 3. TRUTH/MEMORY/REPRESENTATION -- 7. Addressing the Legacies of Mass Violence and Genocide in Indonesia and East Timor -- 8. Mediated Hostility: Media, Affective Citizenship, and Genocide in Northern Nigeria -- 9. Cleansed of Experience? Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Challenges of Anthropological Representation -- Epilogue: The Imagination of Genocide -- Contributors -- Index