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Though human rights monitors talk of fact-finding missions and reports, human rights facts are, like all social phenomena, not in fact found but made \u2014 through processes by which we come to know and talk about them. But how exactly does that happen? And how, by attending to these processes, might we arrive at a more robust understanding of human rights facts? These are the kinds of questions animating\xa0Ken MacLean\u2019s\xa0new book,\xa0Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production and Myanmar\xa0(University of California Press, 2022). In this episode Ken joins\xa0New Books in Southeast Asian Studies\xa0to explore some of the answers he arrived at after years of research on the complexities of human rights fact production about crimes against humanity in eastern Myanmar, or Burma, and to discuss how it is possible to cast a critical eye over how human rights facts are made and not only remain engaged in causes for human rights, but to make them even stronger at a time that human rights facts are sorely tested, and the truth about facts has never been more contested.\nLike this interview? If so you might also be interested in:\n\nLynette Chua,\xa0The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilisation and Human Rights as a Way of Life\n\n\nTyrell Haberkorn,\xa0In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand\n\n\nKen MacLean,\xa0The Government of Mistrust: Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam\n\n\nNick Cheesman\xa0is Associate Professor, Department of Political & Social Change, Australian National University and Senior Fellow, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo (Fall 2022). He hosts the\xa0New Books in Interpretive Political & Social Science\xa0series on the New Books Network.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies