Forensic Architecture (eBook)

Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

Eyal Weizman (Autor)

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2017
368 Seiten
Zone Books (Verlag)
978-1-935408-17-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN.Beyond shedding new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, Forensic Architecture has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media, remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd-sourcing.In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group's founder, provides, for the first time, an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. The book includes an extensive array of images, maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work the group has performed.Included in this volume are case studies that traverse multiple scales and durations, ranging from the analysis of the shrapnel fragments in a room struck by drones in Pakistan, the reconstruction of a contested shooting in the West Bank, the architectural recreation of a secret Syrian detention center from the memory of its survivors, a blow-by-blow account of a day-long battle in Gaza, and an investigation of environmental violence and climate change in the Guatemalan highlands and elsewhere.Weizman's Forensic Architecture, stunning and shocking in its critical narrative, powerful images, and daring investigations, presents a new form of public truth, technologically, architecturally, and aesthetically produced. Their practice calls for a transformative politics in which architecture as a field of knowledge and a mode of interpretation exposes and confronts ever-new forms of state violence and secrecy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 266 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: 1982 Lebanon War • 2003 Invasion of Iraq • 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict • Adolf Eichmann • Agent Orange • Amnesty International • amnesty law • Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry • arab spring • assassination • Bedouin • Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions • Breaking the Silence (non-governmental organization) • B'Tselem • Caroline Sturdy Colls • catastrophism • Cesare Lombroso • Chetniks • collateral damage • Coroner • Crime • culture and society • Deborah Lipstadt • Decolonization • Denis Cosgrove • Desertification • Dirty War • Disenchantment • Drone strikes in Pakistan • Drought • Edward Said • euthanasia • Forensic Architecture • Forensic Science • Francoist Spain • Fred A. Leuchter • gas chamber • Gaza War (2008–09) • Gilad Shalit • habeas corpus • HAMAS • Hannibal Directive • Hitler Diaries • Holocaust denial • House demolition • Human Rights Watch • imperialism • Institute for National Security Studies (Israel) • Insurgency • International Criminal Court • International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia • International Humanitarian Law • internment • Irin • Israel Land Authority • Jameel Jaffer • Jonathan Simon • Lawfare • law of war • Marc Garlasco • Meron Benvenisti • Michael Oren • Michael Sfard • Mold • Mordechai Vanunu • Naomi Klein • Negev • Neve Gordon • Nuremberg Trials • Of Human Action • Palestine Liberation Organization • palestinians • Pallywood • Phrenology • Physical Evidence • Prisoner of War • Rafah • redlining • Regavim (NGO) • Reprieve (organisation) • Reprisal • Robert Jan van Pelt • Rodney King • Ruins • squatting • suicide attack • Syrian Desert • Taliban • The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine • The Other Hand • Threads • Transitional Justice • United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification • United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict • V. • war • War Crime • warfare • wiping • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-935408-17-8 / 1935408178
• ISBN-13: 978-1-935408-17-8 / 9781935408178