Zheng Mengxu. Huang Tianhui. Wang Jianxun. Ask a group of experts on China’s Cultural Revolution the significance of these names, and you’re likely to draw blank stares. Yang Su’s book aims to change that. Local officials and militia members including Zheng, Huang, and Wang were responsible for organizing and carrying out massacres of “class enemies” during 1967 and 1968. In parts of rural Chin...

This paper investigates how the exposure to violent conflicts in utero and in early and late childhood affect human capital formation. I focus on a wide range of child development outcomes, including novel cognitive and non-cognitive indicators. Using monthly and municipality-level variation in the timing and severity of massacres in Colombia from 1999 to 2007, I show that children exposed to t...

A total of 3030 children age 8-19 years from Rwanda was interviewed about their war experiences and reactions approximately 13 months after the genocide that started in April 1994. Rwandan children had been exposed to extreme levels of violence in the form of witnessing the death of close family members and others in massacres, as well as other violent acts. A majority of these children (90%) b...

This study examines the effect of exposure to violent conflicts in-utero and in childhood on child’s physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. The study exploits the exogenous variation in Colombia’s armed conflict across municipalities and months as a natural experiment, and measures violence using massacre shocks. Results indicate that exposure to massacres during pregnancy reduce...

This paper presents an analysis of video-recordings and other micro-level data of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina. It focuses on the sequential unfolding of micro-interactions and emotional dynamics before, and over the course of the atrocity. The paper argues that massacres have a pattern of situational emergence: local emotional dynamics are crucial to explain where and...

Abstract This special forum section of Emotions: History, Culture, Society moves forward scholarship on the history relationship between architecture and emotions. It specifically shows that while, face it, talking about emotions appears anything but new, we still have a long way to go. In this introduction, I shall first provide brief overview critique works such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phe...