...Bain Attwood Duke University Press 2008 In the Age of Testimony: The Stolen Generations Narrative, “Distance,” and Public History Bain Attwood In the last few decades the nature...

...figure 1. YouTube still from José Luis Hernández, “Testimony of the Migrant Experience.” ...

...” of their photographic evidence and the passionate “subjectivity” of testimony. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 I presented an earlier version of this article at the Visible Evidence Conference (Bochum, Germany, December 2007) and wish to thank the organizers and participants for their feedback...

.... A bitter pill: they endured the containment zone, but their experiences of it rendered the testimonies of their experiences unstable. As they were made mute, the forensic experts were called in to make objects speak. References “ ARO MURI: Evolution of Cultural Norms and Dynamics of Sociopolitical...

... as deeply traumatized, unable or unwilling to speak about their experiences. Taking to the airwaves facilitated a shift in the conditions by which survivors' testimonies could find public articulation. As such, the Eichmann trial provides a compelling case of the significance of media in transforming...

...Meir Wigoder Meir Wigoder's account of photographing the Separation-Wall, in Israel-Palestine, over a period of three years, offers a critique of the very vigilant and testimonial activity of taking on such projects: Is it possible to de-materialize a wall through a political aesthetic activity...

... as an instantiation of the tension between authority, visuality, and pain. Through a detailed analysis of prisoner testimonials, the policy manual Medical Management of Detainees on Hunger Strike , and a video project by human rights organization Reprieve featuring artist Yasiin Bey simulating the “proper” techniques...

... of the gaze allows us to glean signs of becoming, modes of making visible imagined modernities and communities. Despite their disparity, these sets of images organize temporal experiences in specific fashions. In the carte de visite , the testimony of continuity and of succeeding generations attests to a past...

... Bulletin 66 : 36 –42. Marcus, George. 2005 . The anthropologist as witness in contemporary regimes of intervention. Cultural Politics 1 , no. 1 : 31 –49. McLagan, Meg. 2003. Human rights, testimony, and transnational publicity. Scholar and Feminist Online 2, no. 1. www.barnard.edu/sfonline...

... to legitimate the historical evi- dence presented to judges and commissioners. These practices are necessary for constituting out of witness testimony a public record that can then circulate as an authoritative text of legal proceedings...

... microfinance through the universalizing ges­ ture of the unnamed and heroic microentrepreneur, a year later, this image of resilience had come to be replaced by a dramatically different media narrative about microfinance — testimonials of death and despair. Told in the villages of South India...

..., corporately owned, state-regulated witness machine whose visual testimony can only be deciphered on the basis of advanced technological expertise. As such, the founding vocation of human rights advocacy to publicly witness others in pain is now in the process of becoming a public witness of machines...

... demands, and government transitions after civil war. The constitution of courts in postcolonial and postwar societies begets transitional amnesties, reparations, or silent amnesia, and public hearings and mandates inau- gurate forums for testimony that have powerful effects on the way stories...

... faces charges that he assaulted a police officer. After ignoring the Pasha’s testimony, and the testimony of 3Isa, the judge listens to the prosecution and calls the Pasha’s defense: 17. On popular perceptions of the new legal orders, see Khaled Fahmy, “The Police and the People...

... into 22. See the testimony of Bernard Granjon, then in charge of Médecins du monde’s mission in Rwanda, about his discussion with François Mitterrand, “Quatre-vingt minutes avec François Mit- terand” (“Eighty Minutes with François Mitterand in “Le génocide des...

...: “Perhaps the most striking change observed during my journey into the interior was the great reduction observable everywhere in native life.”19 Casement constructs this counternarra- tive through a combination of testimonial evidence (from both...

... of NBS. Parental testimony was carefully orchestrated to highlight the vastly different outcomes for two different children: one who underwent screening, and one who did not. Nathan recounted: And I would get up and tell our story and then end it by saying, “I don’t know where we’d be without...

... system of correction and punishment. Under penal law of the eighteenth century (which Foucault referred to as classical law), psychiatric testimony functioned only to assess the accused’s sanity at the time of the crime. Under modern law...