{"product_id":"man-or-monster-the-trial-of-a-khmer-rouge-torturer-9780822362739","title":"Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer","description":"During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orders. In \u003ci\u003eMan or Monster?\u003c\/i\u003e Alexander Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of Cambodia's genocide. Interested in how a person becomes a torturer and executioner as well as the law's ability to grapple with crimes against humanity, Hinton adapts Hannah Arendt's notion of the \"banality of evil\" to consider how the potential for violence is embedded in the everyday ways people articulate meaning and comprehend the world. \u003ci\u003eMan or Monster?\u003c\/i\u003e provides novel ways to consider justice, terror, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Laban Hinton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822362739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Laban Hinton is Founding Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eColonial Genocide in Indigenous North America\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, and author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eWhy Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198631227507,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_802321b9-103d-4264-bd4e-4f5b4ad927ca.jpg?v=1656079604","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/man-or-monster-the-trial-of-a-khmer-rouge-torturer-9780822362739","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}