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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Tyrell Haberkorn, "In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Description: In the preface to In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) Tyrell Haberkorn asks, echoing Pakavadi Veerapaspong, if and when it might one day be possible to write a book on âmemories of dictatorshipâ in Thailand. Concluding that today a clear end to dictatorship is not in sight, she invokes Howard Zinn to insist that nevertheless, âWe must not accept the memory of states as our own⌠it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus has suggested, not to be on the side of the executionersâ. It is in this spirit that she t...