War crimes Books

Book SynopsisKeith L. Camacho examines the U.S. Navy's war crimes tribunal in Guam between 1944 and 1949 which tried members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro community and Japanese nationals and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property.Trade Review“Sacred Men is a truly singular work of immense importance. It is original, compelling, and fiercely thought-provoking. Through a theoretical engagement with the Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies, Keith L. Camacho has brought the discussion of U.S. empire, law, sovereignty, militarism, and the working of carceral power to an entirely new horizon in ways no other scholar has done. A pathbreaking, field-shifting intervention.” -- Lisa Yoneyama, author of * Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes *“Exceedingly engaging, theoretically accomplished, and incisively researched, Sacred Men unravels the 1944 U.S. military tribunal in Guam, which included the prosecution and torture of Chamorro indigenes. Employing Agamben's homo sacer, Keith L. Camacho provides a razor-sharp analysis of the tribunal as a very real ‘bare life’ event but also as a metaphor for the murder, torture, and foreclosure of political life that has occurred throughout the colonies as ‘states of exception.’” -- Brendan Hokowhitu, coeditor of * The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand *"Provocative and engaging, Camacho’s work not only breaks new ground in postcolonial and transpacific studies, but also calls attention to the role that Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies may play in the decolonization and deimperialization of US-occupied Guam." -- Y. Shu * Choice *“Author Keith Camacho is especially interested in developing an analysis of law, justice, incarceration, and punishment in colonial situations...and in weaving this theoretical apparatus into the longer and larger history of US colonial rule in both North America and abroad.... [P]ath-breaking work...” -- Glenn Petersen * Pacific Affairs *“Camacho’s intricately researched and powerfully theorized book Sacred Men is the first to examine, at close range, the U.S. Navy trials of Japanese and native people in Guam before and after 1945.... [It] should be required reading for all graduate students and scholars of war, justice, and the American empire in the Pacific.” -- Franziska Seraphim * Journal of Military History *“Sacred Men makes crucial theoretical, methodological, and historiographical interventions into carceral studies, Indigenous studies, and studies of U.S. empire and militarism.... Sacred Men is an essential resource for scholars of Indigenous peoples, especially those separated by political regimes and imperial boundaries." -- Kristin Oberiano * Amerasia Journal *“Through uncovering these once buried stories, Camacho illustrates a wide range of human responses to the pressures of war and colonial domination. . . . Sacred Men will prove to be a welcome addition to the cannon of Marianas history.” -- Michael R. Clement Jr. * Small States & Territories *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The State of Exception 1. War Bodies 29 2. War Crimes 60 Part II. The Bird and the Lizard 3. Native Assailants 89 4. Native Murderers 116 Part III. The Military Colony 5. Japanese Traitors 149 6. Japanese Militarists 181 Conclusion 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 269 Index 283

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Book SynopsisA renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by Donald Trump's 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting Blood and Soil and Jews will not replace us! Like Trump, the Charlottesville marchers were dismissed as aberrationscrazed extremists who did not represent the real US. It Can Happen Here demonstrates that, rather than being exceptional, such white power extremism and the violent atrocities linked to it are a part of American history. And, alarmingly, they remain a very real threat to the US today. Alexander Hinton explains how murky politics, structural racism, the promotion of American exceptionalism, and a belief that the US has have achieved a color-blind society have diverted attention from the deep roots of white supremacist violence in the US's brutal past. DTrade Review[Alexander Laban] Hinton offers deep instruction for anyone seeking to better understand the bigotry that permeates American society [...] Hinton is deeply concerned with the idea of why people hate and how that hate plays out publicly [...] [W]ell-researched, readable account. * Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review *With sober analysis and in assiduous detail, Hinton explores the ways the United States is 'simmering at a low boil,' and evinces every risk indicator for widespread mass atrocity crimes...Alarming but never alarmist, Hinton provides a chilling introduction to genocide studies through a chronicle of his travails during the Trump years. * Salon.com *Fortunately Hinton does not leave us with problems, but has a solution too: A Truth Commission on White Supremacy and Its Legacies that would extend beyond the aims of the reparations bill following the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, and open a discussion about the perpetrations of white nationalists and supremacists in a past yet unaccounted for. The understanding Hinton provides to events marking US history is objective, nuanced and noble, and teaches us readers that in seeking to define and judge phenomena and people intelligently, accurately and critically, these must necessarily be placed in the continuum of time and space. * LSE Review of Books *By offering a thorough analysis of Trump’s speeches and alt-right moral economies, It Can Happen Here links America’s history of white supremacy and contemporary struggles over race to perceived threats to America’s future. Hinton clears a new path for critical engagement through the face of public anthropology. Among the best critically engaged writing of our time. A must read! -- Kamari Maxine Clarke, University of California Los AngelesIn chilling detail, It Can Happen Here traces particular racialized patterns that serve as warning and prompt for further examination of the deepest conditions that make genocide possible. -- Alisse Waterston, author of Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for MeaningWith an anthropologist’s eye, Cambodia expert Alexander Laban Hinton analyzes the US white power scene and discerns disturbing parallels with the Khmer Rouge paranoia he has studied so closely. It is the long history of genocide and slavery in this country that provides the historically meaningful framework, he argues, rather than interwar European fascism. Analytically hard-hitting, Hinton’s book is a model of critical reflection. -- A. Dirk Moses, author of The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of TransgressionCould white power advocates’ dreams of racial genocide happen here? Hinton takes on that chilling question by looking at how people think about racial violence, from white supremacists at Charlottesville, to those charged with atrocities in the Cambodian genocide and students in his college classroom. The result is an account that is engaging, informative, and a model of the difficult dialogues in our schools and communities that are needed to begin healing our racially fractured society. -- Kathleen Blee, author of Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and ResearchFor those who have been grappling with ways to bring discussions surrounding authoritarianism in the United States, white supremacist violence, and Donald Trump into college and high school classrooms, this book offers a useful template to follow. * Ethnic & Racial Studies *

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Book SynopsisMichael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand expeiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN''s involvement in Rwanda. Barnett''s new Afterword to this edition includes his reaction to documents released on the twentieth anniversary of the genocide. He reflects on what the passage of time has told us about what provoked the genocide, its course, and the implications of the ghastly events of 1994 and the grossly inadequate international reactions to them.Trade ReviewMichael Barnett offers a chilling exploration of why the UN froze while about 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were hacked to death in Rwanda in 1994. * ECONOMIST *Barnett's book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the role that international institutions play in crafting a more peaceful world order. * VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW *Eyewitness to a Genocide is a searching and nuanced moral analysis. * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *

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Book SynopsisIn Killing Others, Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around the world and insight from a variety of disciplines, Lange provides a simple yet powerful explanation that pinpoints the influential role of modernity in the growing global prevalence of ethnic violence over the past two hundred years. He offers evidence that a modern ethnic mind-set is the ultimate and most influential cause of ethnic violence.Throughout most of human history, people perceived and valued small sets of known acquaintances and did not identify with ethnicities. Through education, state policy, and other means, modernity ultimately created broad ethnic consciousnesses that led to emotional prejudice, whereby people focus negative emotions on entire ethnic categories, and ethnic obligation, which pushes people to attack Others for the sake of their ethnicity. Modern social transformations also provided a vTrade Review"This theoretically rich, well-illustrated, and engagingly written book is based on sound empirical evidence. It is a must-read for anybody interested in the study of violent conflicts and cultural difference." -- Siniša Malešević, University College Dublin, author of The Sociology of War and Violence"Killing Others is a bold and powerful book that restates the modernist approach to ethnicity and violence with renewed clarity and rigor." -- Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University, author of Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction: Killing Others1. The Nature and Nurture of Ethnic Violence2. Modernity and Ethnic Violence3. Teaching Peace or Violence?4. The Origins of Ethnic Consciousness5. The Origins of Ethnic Pluralism6. Emotional Prejudice and Ethnic Obligations: Motives of Ethnic Violence7. States and Ethnic Violence: Containing Violence or Instigating Unrest?8. From Worst to First: Declining Ethnic Violence in Early Modernizers9. Modernity and Ethnic Violence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America10. The Future of Ethnic Violence

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Book SynopsisIn Amoral Communities, Mila Dragojevic examines how conditions conducive to atrocities against civilians are created during wartime in some communities. She identifies the exclusion of moderates and the production of borders as the main processes. In these places, political and ethnic identities become linked and targeted violence against civilians becomes both tolerated and justified by the respective authorities as a necessary sacrifice for a greater political goal.Dragojevic augments the literature on genocide and civil wars by demonstrating how violence can be used as a political strategy, and how communities, as well as individuals, remember episodes of violence against civilians. The communities on which she focuses are Croatia in the 1990s and Uganda and Guatemala in the 1980s. In each case Dragojevic considers how people who have lived peacefully as neighbors for many years are suddenly transformed into enemies, yet intracommunal violence is not ubiquitous throTrade ReviewOne of the book's assets is that it clearly shows the merits of interdisciplinarity and the wealth of questions that can be asked (and answered) when looking beyond the well-trodden paths of single disciplines. What is more, the author's deliberate breaking open of persisting stereotypes about people somehow being inclined to interact with each other in violent and amoral ways is a stimulating contribution to reviving discussion of the human side of the continuously politicized contexts of the dissolution of Yugoslavia. * Suedosteuropa *The book is particularly impressive in that it shows a nuanced understanding of the specific cases, while still having universal relevance. Amoral Communities is an outstanding contribution to the growing field of studies that examine micro-processes of conflicts. * Southeastern Europe *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Civilians in Wars 1. The Making of Amoral Communities 2. Evidence of Amoral Communities 3. The Exclusion of Moderates 4. The Production of Borders 5. Memories and Violence 6. Violence against Civilians as a Political Strategy Conclusion: Preventing Collective Crimes Appendix: An Excerpt from the Field Notes by Helga Paškvan Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSatellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation during World War II. Transnistria was the only occupied Soviet territory administered by a power other than Nazi Germany, a reward for Romanian participation in Operation Barbarossa.Vladimir Solonari''s invaluable contribution to World War II history focuses on three main aspects of Romanian rule of Transnistria: with fascinating insights from recently opened archives, Solonari examines the conquest and delimitation of the region, the Romanian administration of the new territory, and how locals responded to the occupation. What did Romania want from the conquest? The first section of the book analyzes Romanian policy aims and its participation in the invasion of the USSR. Solonari then traces how Romanian administrators attempted, in contradictory and inconsistent ways, to make Transnistria Romanian and civilized while simultanTrade ReviewA Satellite Empire provides the most thorough treatment to date of the administrative structure of Transnistria, the reactions of the local population to the occupation, and the evolution of both over time. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Toponyms Maps Introduction 1. Conquering and Delimiting Transnistria 2. Defining Aims and Experiencing the Limits of Occupation 3. Configuring TransnistrianAdministration 4. Ruling Transnistria 5. Making Transnistria "Romanian" 6. "Civilizing" Transnistria 7. Extracting Economic Resources 8. Accommodating and Collaborating 9. Resisting, Phase I: Disasters 10. Resisting, Phase II: Recovery toResurgence Conclusion Notes Archival Sources Index

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Book SynopsisHypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention of complying with their human rights obligations often change course dramatically in response to international pressure. They create toothless commissions, permit but then obstruct international observers'' visits, and pass showpiece legislation while simultaneously bolstering their repressive capacity. Covering debates over transitional justice in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and other countries, Kate Cronin-Furman investigates the diverse ways in which repressive states respond to calls for justice from human rights advocates, UN officials, and Western governments who add their voices to the victims of mass atrocities to demand accountability. She argues that although international pressure cannot elicit compliance in the absence of domestic motivations to comply, the complexity of tTrade ReviewNonetheless, the book is otherwise a concise yet comprehensive account of how states respond to international pressure when creating justice mechanisms. CroninFurman's analysis is an essential read for anyone wanting to understand both how human rights advocacy works and how civil society organizations should engage on the international stage when they seek to pressure governments to restore and preserve human rights. * International Affairs Book Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Politics of Pressure 2. The Obligation to Seek Justice 3. Victims and Perpetrators 4. What Happens after Mass Atrocities 5. Doing Just Enough? 6. Choosing your Audience Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPolitics, Violence, Memory highlights important new social scientific research on the Holocaust and initiates the integration of the Holocaust into mainstream social scientific research in a way that will be useful both for social scientists and historians. Until recently social scientists largely ignored the Holocaust despite the centrality of these tragic events to many of their own concepts and theories. In Politics, Violence, Memory the editors bring together contributions to understanding the Holocaust from a variety of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, and public health. The chapters examine the sources and measurement of antisemitism; explanations for collaboration, rescue, and survival; competing accounts of neighbor-on-neighbor violence; and the legacies of the Holocaust in contemporary Europe. Politics, Violence, Memory brings new data to bear on these important concerns and shows how older data can bTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Response Delayed 1. Can – Or Should – There Be a Political Science of the Holocaust? 2. Histories in Motion: The Holocaust, Social Science Research, and the Historian Part I: Sites of Violence 3. Pogrom Violence and Visibility during the Kristallnacht Pogrom 4. Historical Legacies and Jewish Survival Strategies during the Holocaust 5. A Common History of Violence? The Pogroms of Summer 1941 in Comparative Perspective 6. Mass Violence without Mass Politics: Political Culture and the Holocaust in Lithuania Part II: New Uses for Old Data on Antisemitism and the Holocaust 7. Territorial Loss and Xenophobia in the Weimar Republic: Evidence from Jewish Bogeymen in Children's Stories 8. Defeating Typhus in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Scientific Look at Historical Sources 9. Holocaust Survival among Immigrant Jews in the Netherlands: A Life Course Approach 10. Normalizing Violence: How Catholic Bishops Facilitated Vichy's Violence against Jews 11. Using the Yad Vashem Transport Database to Examine Gender and Selection during the Holocaust 12. Addressing the Missing Voices in Holocaust Testimony Part III: Legacies of the Holocaust 13. Remembering Past Atrocities: Good or Bad for Attitudes toward Minorities? 14. Legitimating Myths and the Holocaust in Postsocialist States 15. The International Relations of Holocaust Memory Conclusion: From the Micro to the Macro

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Book SynopsisIn To Save Heaven and Earth, Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi to try and save those targeted for killing. Many genocide perpetrators were not motivated by political ideology, ethnic hatred, or prejudice. By shifting away from these classic typologies of genocide studies and focusing instead on hundreds of thousands of discrete acts that unfold over time, Burnet highlights the ways that complex decisions and behaviors emerge in the social, political, and economic processes that constitute a genocide.To Save Heaven and Earth explores external factors, such as geography, local power dynamics, and genocide timelines, as well as the internal states of mind and motivations of those who effected rescues. Framed within the interdisciplinary scholarship of genocide studies and rooted in cultural anthropology methodologies, this book presents stories of heroism and of the good done amid theTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Dynamics of Violence in the Gray Zone 2. Agency and Morality in the Gray Zone 3. Muslim Exceptionalism and Genocide 4. Resistance, Rescue, and Religion 5. The Border as Salvation and Snare 6. At the Margins of the State 7. Altruism, Agency, and Martyrdom in the Gray Zone Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn To Save Heaven and Earth, Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi to try and save those targeted for killing. Many genocide perpetrators were not motivated by political ideology, ethnic hatred, or prejudice. By shifting away from these classic typologies of genocide studies and focusing instead on hundreds of thousands of discrete acts that unfold over time, Burnet highlights the ways that complex decisions and behaviors emerge in the social, political, and economic processes that constitute a genocide.To Save Heaven and Earth explores external factors, such as geography, local power dynamics, and genocide timelines, as well as the internal states of mind and motivations of those who effected rescues. Framed within the interdisciplinary scholarship of genocide studies and rooted in cultural anthropology methodologies, this book presents stories of heroism and of the good done amid theTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Dynamics of Violence in the Gray Zone 2. Agency and Morality in the Gray Zone 3. Muslim Exceptionalism and Genocide 4. Resistance, Rescue, and Religion 5. The Border as Salvation and Snare 6. At the Margins of the State 7. Altruism, Agency, and Martyrdom in the Gray Zone Conclusion

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Book SynopsisReconciliation by Stealth advances a novel approach to evaluating the effects of transitional justice in postconflict societies. Through her examination of the Balkan conflicts, Denisa Kostovicova asks what happens when former adversaries discuss legacies of violence and atrocity, and whether it is possible to do so without further deepening animosities. Reconciliation by Stealth shifts our attention from what people say about war crimes, to how they deliberate past wrongs. Bringing together theories of democratic deliberation and peacebuilding, Kostovicova demonstrates how people from opposing ethnic groups reconcile through reasoned, respectful, and empathetic deliberation about a difficult legacy. She finds that expression of ethnic difference plays a role in good-quality deliberation across ethnic lines, while revealed intraethnic divisions help deliberators expand moral horizons previously narrowed by conflict. In the process, people forge bonTrade ReviewIn Reconciliation by Stealth, Kostovicova (London School of Economics, England) introduces readers to another way of dealing with war crimes: conversation. The goal is to allow victims and survivors the chance to speak their truths and expose others to them. One's gender, ethnicity, tribal affiliation, and more affects one's ability to speak the truth. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reconciliation through Public Communication 1. Wars, Crimes, and Justice in the Balkans 2. Bringing Identities into Postconflict Deliberation 3. Quantifying Discourse in Transitional Justice 4. Words of Reason and Talk of Pain 5. Who Agrees and Who Disagrees 6. Discursive Solidarity against Identity Politics Conclusion: Reconciliation and Deliberative Interethnic Contact

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Book SynopsisContemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict. But it hasn't always been this way. Analyzing feminist international legal and political work over the past three decades, Karen Engle argues that it was not inevitable that sexual violence in conflict would become such a prominent issue. Engle reveals that as feminists from around the world began to pay an enormous amount of attention to sexual violence in conflict, they often did so at the cost of attention to other issues, including the anti-militarism of the women's peace movement; critiques of economic maldistribution, imperialism, and cultural essentialism by feminists from the global South; and the sex-positive positions of many feminists involved in debates about sex work and pornography. The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict offers a detailed examination of how these feminist commitments were not merely deprioritized, but undermined, by efforts to address the issue of sexual violence in conflict. Engle's analysis reinvigorates vital debates about feminist goals and priorities, and spurs readers to question much of today's common sense about the causes, effects, and proper responses to sexual violence in conflict. Trade Review"The Grip of Sexual Violence is required reading for understanding how some powerful feminist approaches to international criminal law have produced more problems than solutions. Engle's brilliant and nuanced critique asks us to urgently reconsider the colonial, racial, and cultural assumptions and erasures of such feminism and offers a different path for feminist legal internationalism."—Inderpal Grewal, Yale University"Karen Engle provides a masterful critical account of the politics of 'common sense' that informs feminist interventions in international law. Her incisive analysis of how the discourse on sexual violence in conflict has come to be based on negative images of sex and sexuality and troubling assumptions about gender, war, and peace marks an invaluable and timely contribution to the field."—Ratna Kapur, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law"Engle's brilliant book shows how concern with sexual violence displaced and undermined feminist movements for geopolitical peace and equality, risking a regulatory vision for female bodies instead of a 'sex positive' one. Engle reopens fateful choices and closes with an inspiring vision of a different feminism and a different international law."—Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World"Karen Engle has long been a perceptive critic of the ways in which feminists call on international institutions to support feminist causes. Here, she offers a remarkable case study of how ideas and concepts travel and transform, making a powerful argument for a more nuanced account of gender, sex and conflict, which takes the complexity of human experience into account."—Hilary Charlesworth, Melbourne Law School and The Australian National University"Engle critiques the pattern of focusing on wartime sexual violence in order to call for more violence through military intervention.[This] book is well researched, creative, and provocative. Recommended."—D. P. Forsythe, CHOICE"Karen Engle is one of the most remarkable scholars of human rights movements today. Her work has long questioned what are generally perceived [as] some of the greatest successes of human rights and international law, not least in relation to indigenous rights, feminist advocacy and international criminal law....For its potential to inspire new activism and fresh research, The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict is doubtless a pivotal contribution to critical scholarship on human rights and feminism."—Mattia Pinto, London Review of International Law"Engle's work is an inspiring and groundbreaking analysis that deserves further in-depth discussions... [The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict] is a provocative analysis of the most controversial issues related to feminism, gender, and war that have preoccupied feminist scholars and legal practitioners alike over the past three decades. Engle touches sensitive issues relating to the essence of the book's central argument, and provides convincing answers to many questions, while sometimes leaving the door ajar on issues that were, and still are, under discussion."—Hilmi M. Zawati, Journal of International Criminal Justice

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Book SynopsisA powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories. Survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea of returning to their homeland was unthinkable. But decades later, some children and grandchildren felt compelled to travel back, having heard stories of family wholeness in beloved homes and of cherished ancestral towns and villages once in Ottoman Armenia, today in the Republic of Turkey. Hoping to satisfy spiritual yearnings, this new generation called themselves pilgrims—and their journeys, pilgrimages. Carel Bertram joined scores of these pilgrims on over a dozen pilgrimages, and amassed accounts from hundreds more who made these journeys. In telling their stories, A House in the Homeland documents how pilgrims encountered the ancestral house, village, or town as both real and metaphorical centerpieces of family history. Bertram recounts the moving, restorative connections pilgrims made, and illuminates how the ancestral house, as a spiritual place, offers an opening to a wellspring of humanity in sites that might otherwise be defined solely by tragic loss. As an exploration of the powerful links between memory and place, house and homeland, rupture and continuity, these Armenian stories reflect the resilience of diaspora in the face of the savage reaches of trauma, separation, and exile in ways that each of us, whatever our history, can recognize.Trade Review"Original and engrossing, A House in the Homeland relates individual experiences that resonate with universal themes of family, trauma, and home. Carel Bertram's gifts of empathy and storytelling make for a book that is at once heartbreaking and inspiring. Essential for anyone interested in place, memory, and mass violence."—Heghnar Watenpaugh, author of The Missing Pages"Carel Bertram's engrossing and well-researched story of Armenian pilgrimages is of universal importance, resonating with all of us searching for our own personal history and our place within it. This book is not just important to Armenians, but valuable to anyone interested in understanding where their family comes from."—Esther Safran Foer, author of I Want You to Know We're Still Here"Deeply knowledgeable about memory, trauma, pilgrimage, and the sacred, Carel Bertram offers both scholarly expertise and an eloquent, moving narrative. A House in the Homeland illuminates the mutually transformative links between the lost pre-Genocide homes and current homelands of Armenian pilgrims. A truly wonderful book."—Khachig Tölölyan, founding editor of Diaspora"A House in the Homeland speaks to a pressing concern for many Armenians: How to sustain memory of an event that is difficult to trace on its landscape, and which is officially denied by its perpetrator. Bertram has shown that the gap between historical fact and material evidence can be spanned by memorialization and pilgrimage, by witness and dialogue, and for her interlocutors, by keeping their ancestors alive through their family memory-stories."—Aram G. Sarkisian, Material Religion"A House in the Homeland is a remarkable book that offers a unique insight into the thoughts, feelings and deeds of the Armenian genocide survivors and their descendants – the people who have lived their lives in the shade of tragic events that more than a century ago changed the course of Armenian history. Bertram tells a passionate story that engages a reader emotionally as well as intellectually. Skillfully written, her work is highly informative but, at the same time, leaves a reader wanting more – more precious stories of human courage, perseverance, search for meaning and the power of memory."—Konrad Siekierski, Memory Studies"This moving ethnographic study documents Armenian Americans' pilgrimages to eastern Turkey to visit the sites where their ancestors experienced the traumas of the 1915 genocide by Turkish authorities and the related attempts to erase Armenian identity from Turkish society....Including histories, songs, poetry, literature, and personal memories—many originally in Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish—this enthralling book shares these travelers' stories as they explore their 'Armenian-ness'.... Highly recommended."—V. Clement, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Where Memory Takes Place 1. The Family Mansion 2. An Erased Village and an Inhabited House 3. The House and Its Sacred Geography 4. Music as Sacred Memory and the Intrusion of the Profane 5. The House-Place and Memory-Stories 6. The Emergence of Rituals 7. Relics: Engaging the Spirits 8. Communion: A Unification of Souls 9. Sacred and Profane: A Poetic Encounter 10. Votives: For Reaching Home 11. Votives: For the Restoration of Something Lost 12. Ex-Votos: Gratitude 13. Shrines: Making Visible the Invisible 14. Blessings: At My Father's House 15. Homeland Music Performs the Village 16. Village Music Performs the Homeland 17. The Bus: Traveling Through a Trauma-scape 18. The Bus: Traveling as Wholeness 19. What Remains: "The Last Armenian" 20. What Remains: Armenians "Everywhere" 21. What Remains: A Homeland of Mirrors Conclusion: Conclusion: Ethnography as Methodology; Poetry as an Analytical Framework

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Book SynopsisA powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories. Survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea of returning to their homeland was unthinkable. But decades later, some children and grandchildren felt compelled to travel back, having heard stories of family wholeness in beloved homes and of cherished ancestral towns and villages once in Ottoman Armenia, today in the Republic of Turkey. Hoping to satisfy spiritual yearnings, this new generation called themselves pilgrims—and their journeys, pilgrimages. Carel Bertram joined scores of these pilgrims on over a dozen pilgrimages, and amassed accounts from hundreds more who made these journeys. In telling their stories, A House in the Homeland documents how pilgrims encountered the ancestral house, village, or town as both real and metaphorical centerpieces of family history. Bertram recounts the moving, restorative connections pilgrims made, and illuminates how the ancestral house, as a spiritual place, offers an opening to a wellspring of humanity in sites that might otherwise be defined solely by tragic loss. As an exploration of the powerful links between memory and place, house and homeland, rupture and continuity, these Armenian stories reflect the resilience of diaspora in the face of the savage reaches of trauma, separation, and exile in ways that each of us, whatever our history, can recognize.Trade Review"Original and engrossing, A House in the Homeland relates individual experiences that resonate with universal themes of family, trauma, and home. Carel Bertram's gifts of empathy and storytelling make for a book that is at once heartbreaking and inspiring. Essential for anyone interested in place, memory, and mass violence."—Heghnar Watenpaugh, author of The Missing Pages"Carel Bertram's engrossing and well-researched story of Armenian pilgrimages is of universal importance, resonating with all of us searching for our own personal history and our place within it. This book is not just important to Armenians, but valuable to anyone interested in understanding where their family comes from."—Esther Safran Foer, author of I Want You to Know We're Still Here"Deeply knowledgeable about memory, trauma, pilgrimage, and the sacred, Carel Bertram offers both scholarly expertise and an eloquent, moving narrative. A House in the Homeland illuminates the mutually transformative links between the lost pre-Genocide homes and current homelands of Armenian pilgrims. A truly wonderful book."—Khachig Tölölyan, founding editor of Diaspora"A House in the Homeland speaks to a pressing concern for many Armenians: How to sustain memory of an event that is difficult to trace on its landscape, and which is officially denied by its perpetrator. Bertram has shown that the gap between historical fact and material evidence can be spanned by memorialization and pilgrimage, by witness and dialogue, and for her interlocutors, by keeping their ancestors alive through their family memory-stories."—Aram G. Sarkisian, Material Religion"A House in the Homeland is a remarkable book that offers a unique insight into the thoughts, feelings and deeds of the Armenian genocide survivors and their descendants – the people who have lived their lives in the shade of tragic events that more than a century ago changed the course of Armenian history. Bertram tells a passionate story that engages a reader emotionally as well as intellectually. Skillfully written, her work is highly informative but, at the same time, leaves a reader wanting more – more precious stories of human courage, perseverance, search for meaning and the power of memory."—Konrad Siekierski, Memory Studies"This moving ethnographic study documents Armenian Americans' pilgrimages to eastern Turkey to visit the sites where their ancestors experienced the traumas of the 1915 genocide by Turkish authorities and the related attempts to erase Armenian identity from Turkish society....Including histories, songs, poetry, literature, and personal memories—many originally in Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish—this enthralling book shares these travelers' stories as they explore their 'Armenian-ness'.... Highly recommended."—V. Clement, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Where Memory Takes Place 1. The Family Mansion 2. An Erased Village and an Inhabited House 3. The House and Its Sacred Geography 4. Music as Sacred Memory and the Intrusion of the Profane 5. The House-Place and Memory-Stories 6. The Emergence of Rituals 7. Relics: Engaging the Spirits 8. Communion: A Unification of Souls 9. Sacred and Profane: A Poetic Encounter 10. Votives: For Reaching Home 11. Votives: For the Restoration of Something Lost 12. Ex-Votos: Gratitude 13. Shrines: Making Visible the Invisible 14. Blessings: At My Father's House 15. Homeland Music Performs the Village 16. Village Music Performs the Homeland 17. The Bus: Traveling Through a Trauma-scape 18. The Bus: Traveling as Wholeness 19. What Remains: "The Last Armenian" 20. What Remains: Armenians "Everywhere" 21. What Remains: A Homeland of Mirrors Conclusion: Conclusion: Ethnography as Methodology; Poetry as an Analytical Framework

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Book SynopsisNever before has such damning evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity been revealed in the midst of a conflict. As civil war raged in Syria, we owe the disclosure of this evidence to one man. He goes under the codename of Caesar. This military police photographer was required to document the murder and torture of thousands of Syrian civilians in the custody of the Assad regime. Over the course of two years he used a police computer to copy the photos, and in 2013 he risked his life to smuggle out 53,000 photos and documents that show prisoners tortured, starved and burned to death. In January 2015, in the American magazine Foreign Affairs, President Bashar al-Assad claimed that this military photographer didn’t exist. “Who took the pictures? Who is he? Nobody knows. There is no verification of any of this evidence, so it’s all allegations without evidence.” Caesar exists. The author of this book has spent dozens of hours with him. His testimony is extraordinary, his photos shocking. The uncovering of the workings of the Syrian death machine that underpins his account is a descent into the unspeakable. In 2014 Caesar testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his testimony provided crucial evidence for a bipartisan bill, the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, that was presented to Congress in 2016. Caesar’s photos have also been shown in the United Nations Headquarters in New York and at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. For the first time, this book tells Caesar’s story.Trade ReviewThe winner of the Geschwister Scholl Prize'The images conjure memories of some of history's worst atrocities.'The New York Times'The Syrian defector known as 'Caesar'… helped expose some of the worst war crimes of our generation.'The Washington Post'Shocking evidence of torture out of Assad's dungeons'The GuardianTable of Contents Prologue Locations where the witnesses of this book were detained List of Syrians who bear witness in this book Foreword – Steven Heydeman Preface 1. Revelation. Testimony. Accusation 2. Profession Corpse Photographer 3. The Routine Turns to Horror 4. The Archives of Death 5. Communities and Religions 6. Caught in the Crossfire 7. With the Families of the Disappeared 8. A Duty to Get Out Alive 9. The Failure of Gradual Diplomacy 10. Testimony in Washington Appendices Acknowledgements Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTerrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide investigates interconnections between space and violence throughout the twentieth century, and how such connections informed collective memory. The interdisciplinary volume shows how entangled notions of time and space amplified by memory narratives led to continuities of violence across different conflicts creating "terrortimes" and "terrorscapes" in their wake. The volume examines such continuities of violence with the help of an analytical framework built around different themes. Its first part, spatial and temporal continuities of violence, looks at contested spaces and ideas of national, ethnic, or religious homogeneity that are often at the heart of prolonged conflicts. The second part, on states and actors, addresses the role of states as enablers of violence, asymmetric power dynamics, and the connection between imperialism and genocide in Africa. Imagination and emotion—the focus of the third part—explores utopian visions and their limits that instigate or hinder, and the mobilization of emotion through propaganda. Finally, the fourth part shows how the recollection of the past sometimes triggers new terrortimes. Departing from an understanding of violence limited to certain areas and time frames, this volume describes continuities of violence as overlapping fabrics woven together from notions of space, time, and memory.Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction. Terrortimes and Terrorscapes? Rethinking Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory, by Volker Benkert and Michael Mayer Part 1. Spatial and Temporal Continuities 1. Contested Spaces: Criminalization of Marginalized Communities in Former Habsburg Lands in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Case Study of Austrian Zigeuner ("Gypsies"), by Ursula K. Mindler-Steiner 2. Space and Ideas of National, Ethnic, or Religious Homogeneity: Polish and German Jewish Survivors in the Recovered Territories in Post – World War II Poland, by Anna Cichopek-Gajraj Part 2. States and Actors 3. States as Contributors to or Enablers of Violence: Colonial Thinking Is Still with Us: Investigating the Colonial Record on the Occupation of Jambi and Rengat (1948 – 49) in the Indonesian War of Independence, by Bart Luttikhuis 4. Asymmetric Power Relations: Jihad Made in Germany? Creating Terrorscapes through German Undercover Intelligence Operations against Britain and Russia in Afghanistan, India, and Persia during the First World War: An Entangled History of Violence, by Michael Mayer 5. Third-Party Actors and the Question of Genocide: Imperialism and the Question of Genocide in Colonial-Era Africa, by Jason Bruner Part 3. Imagination and Emotions 6. Utopian Ideologies and Their Limits: Private Lives in Wartime France: Desertion, Divorce, and Deprivation, by Rachel G. Fuchs 7. Emotion, Hope, Fear, and Belonging : Soviet Wartime Jazz: Propaganda and Popular Culture on the Eastern Front, by Benjamin Beresford Part 4. Memory Continuities 8. Crafting the History of Terrortimes 1: Manufactured Memory: Crafting the Cult of the Great Patriotic War, by Yan Mann 9. Crafting the History of Terrortimes 2: Compartmentalized Memory: Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past and the Discourse on German Sufferings at the Turn of the Millennium, by Volker Benkert 10. Terrortimes in Transnational Perspective 1: Between National and European Memory? About Temporal and Spatial (Dis)Continuities in Post-1989 Dutch Memory Culture, by Ilse Raaijmakers 11. Terrortimes in Transnational Perspective 2: Remembering the Holocaust: Opportunities and Challenges, by Georgi Verbeeck Epilogue. The Yardstick of History and the Measure of Redemption: Difficult Pasts in the United States and Germany Today, by Volker Benkert About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisTerrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide investigates interconnections between space and violence throughout the twentieth century, and how such connections informed collective memory. The interdisciplinary volume shows how entangled notions of time and space amplified by memory narratives led to continuities of violence across different conflicts creating "terrortimes" and "terrorscapes" in their wake. The volume examines such continuities of violence with the help of an analytical framework built around different themes. Its first part, spatial and temporal continuities of violence, looks at contested spaces and ideas of national, ethnic, or religious homogeneity that are often at the heart of prolonged conflicts. The second part, on states and actors, addresses the role of states as enablers of violence, asymmetric power dynamics, and the connection between imperialism and genocide in Africa. Imagination and emotion—the focus of the third part—explores utopian visions and their limits that instigate or hinder, and the mobilization of emotion through propaganda. Finally, the fourth part shows how the recollection of the past sometimes triggers new terrortimes. Departing from an understanding of violence limited to certain areas and time frames, this volume describes continuities of violence as overlapping fabrics woven together from notions of space, time, and memory.Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction. Terrortimes and Terrorscapes? Rethinking Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory, by Volker Benkert and Michael Mayer Part 1. Spatial and Temporal Continuities 1. Contested Spaces: Criminalization of Marginalized Communities in Former Habsburg Lands in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Case Study of Austrian Zigeuner ("Gypsies"), by Ursula K. Mindler-Steiner 2. Space and Ideas of National, Ethnic, or Religious Homogeneity: Polish and German Jewish Survivors in the Recovered Territories in Post – World War II Poland, by Anna Cichopek-Gajraj Part 2. States and Actors 3. States as Contributors to or Enablers of Violence: Colonial Thinking Is Still with Us: Investigating the Colonial Record on the Occupation of Jambi and Rengat (1948 – 49) in the Indonesian War of Independence, by Bart Luttikhuis 4. Asymmetric Power Relations: Jihad Made in Germany? Creating Terrorscapes through German Undercover Intelligence Operations against Britain and Russia in Afghanistan, India, and Persia during the First World War: An Entangled History of Violence, by Michael Mayer 5. Third-Party Actors and the Question of Genocide: Imperialism and the Question of Genocide in Colonial-Era Africa, by Jason Bruner Part 3. Imagination and Emotions 6. Utopian Ideologies and Their Limits: Private Lives in Wartime France: Desertion, Divorce, and Deprivation, by Rachel G. Fuchs 7. Emotion, Hope, Fear, and Belonging : Soviet Wartime Jazz: Propaganda and Popular Culture on the Eastern Front, by Benjamin Beresford Part 4. Memory Continuities 8. Crafting the History of Terrortimes 1: Manufactured Memory: Crafting the Cult of the Great Patriotic War, by Yan Mann 9. Crafting the History of Terrortimes 2: Compartmentalized Memory: Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past and the Discourse on German Sufferings at the Turn of the Millennium, by Volker Benkert 10. Terrortimes in Transnational Perspective 1: Between National and European Memory? About Temporal and Spatial (Dis)Continuities in Post-1989 Dutch Memory Culture, by Ilse Raaijmakers 11. Terrortimes in Transnational Perspective 2: Remembering the Holocaust: Opportunities and Challenges, by Georgi Verbeeck Epilogue. The Yardstick of History and the Measure of Redemption: Difficult Pasts in the United States and Germany Today, by Volker Benkert About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central questions of our age: How is mass atrocity possible, and What should be done in its wake? From 1976 to 1983 thousands of people were the victims of state terrorism during Argentina’s so-called Dirty War. Ferguson recounts a twenty-two-month trial of the most notorious perpetrators of this atrocity, who ran a secret prison from the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires. The navy executed as many as five thousand political “subversives,” most of whom were sedated and thrown alive out of airplanes into the South Atlantic. The victims of these secret death flights and others who went missing during the regime are known as los desaparecidos—“the disappeared.” Ferguson explores Argentina’s novel response to mass atrocity: the country’s remarkable and controversial decisions in 2003 to repeal a series of amnesty laws passed in the 1980s and to prosecute anew the perpetrators of the Dirty War a generation after the collapse of the country's last dictatorship. As of 2022 more than one thousand aging military officers have been indicted for their involvement in the Dirty War and hundreds of trials have commenced in the country’s civilian courts. Among the many facets of the book, Ferguson takes an in-depth look at allegations that Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, was involved in the disappearance of two Jesuit priests under his supervision in 1976. Bergoglio was called to testify in a closed-chambers session. Ferguson reviewed those secret proceedings and uses them as a springboard to explore the Argentine Catholic Church and its broader role in the Dirty War. The lingering but acute trauma of the victims who testified at the trial underscores the moral urgency of accountability. When a state strips its citizens of all their rights, the only response that approximates reparation is to restore the rule of law and punish the perpetrators. Yet the trial also revealed the limits of using criminal law to respond to mass atrocity. Justice demands a laser-like focus on evidence relevant to a crime, but atrocity begs for social understanding. Can the law ever bring full justice? Trade Review“With the eye of a novelist and the brilliance of a lawyer, Sam Ferguson has given us a gripping and world-illuminating account of Argentina’s relentless and almost heroic attempt to confront the horrors of its past.”—Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School“Sam Ferguson’s book tells the remarkable saga of this twenty-two-month trial and the larger story of how and why Argentina is prosecuting its aging Dirty Warriors. It wrestles with the deepest questions of whether law can do justice for the past. This is an important and timely book that should be read by all of those who are interested in fostering international human rights and promoting democracy—and a reminder that societies never really turn the page on the past.”—Tina Rosenberg, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Haunted: Facing Europe’s Ghosts after Communism“In The Disappeared Sam Ferguson asks an urgent moral question: what does justice look like in the aftermath of atrocity? If that question remains an abstraction in too many places around the world, Ferguson addresses it concretely—and unforgettably—in this riveting new account. . . . In Ferguson’s hands you’ll feel as if you, too, are sitting in the repurposed movie theater with the faded pink drapes in 2009, watching an important political spectacle commence. But The Disappeared also offers a clear-eyed assessment of the limits of the law and the kinds of collective heartbreak it is not equipped to heal.”—Sarah Stillman, staff writer for the New Yorker“The true birth of the contemporary human rights movement can be traced not to Nuremberg or even to Auschwitz but to the dark recesses of the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires. . . . [The Disappeared] is a gripping narrative; Sam Ferguson has written a fascinating, painstaking, and necessary book. Anyone who cares about human rights—or indeed the human condition—must read it.”—Mark Danner, author of The Massacre at El Mozote“Can there ever be justice for Latin America’s disappeared? This remarkable book analyzes the question through the prism of Argentina’s contemporary crimes against humanity trials for atrocities committed during its so-called ‘Dirty War’ of the 1970s and the possibility of delayed justice. As a lawyer and observer, Ferguson presents a keen understanding in this nuanced and highly readable account. . . . Through [Ferguson’s] interviews, comprehensive research, and first-hand observations, a lucid narrative emerges here: Argentina has imagined and created a better future through the trials by opening up its dark past. Argentina has achieved a level of self-reflection and judgment that tragically remains largely exceptional among nations. Given the rise of authoritarianism around the world, this is hugely necessary and riveting reading for students, academics, and political analysts alike.”—Ruti G. Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School and author of Globalizing Transitional JusticeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction One: A Beginning of Sorts Two: The Argentine Enigma Three: The Prosecution's Case Four: Opening Silence Five: Trials Before the Trial Six: The Brutality of the ESMA Seven: Rodolfo Walsh Eight: The Santa Cruz Raid Nine: Between Memory, Truth and Justice Ten: The Jesuits Eleven: Closing Arguments and Verdict Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe thirst for post-World War II justice transcended the Cold War and mobilized diverse social groups. This is a story of their multilayered and at times conflictual interactions. In this edited collection, sixteen historians develop a new approach to the trials against persons accused of war crimes and mass murder in Europe during the ascendancy of Nazism and the Second World War (1933-1945). Focusing on the social aspects of the demand for justice and making use of previously underexploited local and international sources, contributors put to the test the notion of "show trials" and explore a range of judicial and political cultures from Germany to the Soviet Union. Essays uncover the expectations around accountability and forms of mobilization on the part of a range of citizens involved in the trials: survivors, witnesses, perpetrators, Nazi hunters, and civic activists. In addition to the perspective of these citizens, contributors invoke the expertise of reporters, filmmakers, historians, investigators, and prosecutors who shaped public representations of justice. These shaping efforts, the authors show, often supported the desire of political authorities to benefit from the publicity of the trials and to contain the spontaneous dissemination of information. The book's close examination of interactions between citizens and authorities thus demonstrates the extent and limits of what might be called a "coproduction" of justice, in the process shedding light on the interdependence between historical knowledge and legal prosecution of mass crimes.Table of ContentsTable of Figures Introduction V. Voisin, E. Le Bourhis, and I. Tcherneva List of Abbreviations Part I - Justice and visibility Shaping the Spectacle: Politics and Professional Practices Chapter 1. Justice in Mantle Coats: Shooting the Bulgarian People's Courts in Revolutionary Times, 1944-1945 Nadège Ragaru Chapter 2. The Nuremberg Trials - To Stage or Not to Stage: Conflicting Visions and Creative Differences Sylvie Lindeperg/Camille Noûs Chapter 3. Evidence and Soviet Rhetorical Devices: Staging Justice at the Nuremberg Trial Victor Barbat Disclosing Data: Doubt and Uncertainty Chapter 4. Tensions Between Secrecy and Publicity: Internment, Investigation, Extradition, and Convictions in the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1950 Enrico Heitzer and Julia Landau Chapter 5. Concentration Camp Crimes on Trial, on TV, and in Civic Education. Bonn 1958-1959 Götz Lachwitz Chapter 6. Law and Accountability, Secrecy and Guilt: Soviet Trawniki Defendants' Trials, 1960-1970 David Alan Rich Part II - Justice and social mobilization From Rumor to Testimony: Challenges in Voluntary Social Involvement Chapter 7. Rehabilitation of individuals suspected of collaboration: The Jewish Civic Court by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, 1946-1950 Katarzyna Person Chapter 8. Risks and Results of Citizens' Commitments: The Kačerovski Case in Riga, 1958-1963 Eric Le Bourhis and Irina Tcherneva Chapter 9. Mediators behind the Scenes: The World Jewish Congress and the International Auschwitz Committee during the Preparations for the First Auschwitz Trial in Frankfurt Katharina Stengel Individual and Collective Advocacy Chapter 10. Accusing Hans Globke, 1960-1963: Agency and the Iron Curtain Jasmin Söhner and Máté Zombory Chapter 11. The Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France and the Lischka Trial in Cologne, 1971-1980 Anne Klein and Birte Klarzyk List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Brereton report — the findings of a long-running inquiry into war crimes allegations involving members of the Australian Special Operations Task Group during their 2005–13 deployment to Afghanistan — was publicly released on 23 November 2020.Veiled Valour, from one of Australia's most respected military affairs analysts, explores the background to these allegations — the gradual demise of the Afghan state and society, the decision to deploy Special Forces personnel to Central Asia after 2001, the inquiries into apparent mistakes and alleged misconduct, and the shocking hearsay and rumours that led to a formal inquiry.Ending the day before the Brereton report's public release, Veiled Valour sheds light on why the inquiry was necessary, how its investigations were conducted, where the media influenced its direction and what the public expected to be told about its military elite.

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Book SynopsisBerlin, 1933: as Hitler rises to power, the law - designed to protect and serve - becomes twisted to the will of those who dream of a pure Aryan race. SS Officer Walter Gunther is intensely loyal to the Third Reich. His readiness to kill without question or remorse would seem to make him the ideal candidate to lead the T4 euthanasia programme. SS Officer Karl Muller, a trainee doctor and engineer, is also brought into the programme, and assured that his work is consistent with the Hippocratic oath he's due to take. Their mandate: to kill the "unworthies" - not just the Jews, but crippled children, the mentally ill, homosexuals. Hedda, Walter's wife and old acquaintance of Karl, has no idea of what their work entails. Until, that is, the fate of their families is at stake, and each must confront afresh the choices they have made. This dark, tense novel is a compelling story of human tragedy, and man's potential to revel in, or fight against, the evil actions of a corrupted nation.

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Book SynopsisThe permanent five (P5) members of the United Nations Security Council ? China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA - have a firm duty to prevent genocide in light of the due diligence standard under conventional, customary, and peremptory international law. This perceptive book explores the positive obligations of these states to act both within and without the Security Council context to prevent or suppress imminent or on-going genocide.John Heieck successfully argues why the duty to prevent genocide is not only a customary, but also an absolute norm of international law, and analyses the scope of the due diligence standard regarding the duty to prevent genocide. In doing so, he considers the ramifications of this on the actions of the P5 members of the Security Council, both within and outside of this eminent body. Significantly, Heieck proposes a legal test for identifying jus cogens norms, and explores the effect of these on the actions and omissions of specifically identified members of the United Nations (UN).Topical and insightful, A Duty to Prevent Genocide will be an important read for both academics and students of international law and politics who wish to further understand the legal nature of the duty of the P5 members to prevent genocide. It will also provide valuable insights for policymakers of the P5 member states.Trade Review'This is a closely argued and well-written book, which combines a firm grasp of controversial issues in international law, with a genuine and enthusiastic originality. Heieck's focus is the duty to prevent genocide. He asks the question how this duty affects the bedrock principle of the current international order - the prohibition of the use of force. Highly recommended for students and scholars of international law.' --Bill Bowring, University of London, UK'John Heieck wades into one of the murkiest and most politically fraught issues of our time - what the duty to prevent genocide requires of states, particularly the members of the P5 - and does so with aplomb. Future scholarship on genocide will ignore this brave and intelligent book at its peril.' --Kevin Jon Heller, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The P5’s Duty to Prevent Genocide under the Genocide Convention 2. The P5’s Duty to Prevent Genocide under Customary International Law 3. The Conflict between the P5’s Duty to Prevent Genocide and the P5’s Rights and Duties under Conventional and Customary International Law 4. Resolving the Conflict between the P5’s Duty to Prevent Genocide and the P5’s Rights and Duties under Conventional and Customary Law Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi was the signature moral horror of the late 20th century. Andrew Wallis reveals, for the first time, the personal lives and crimes of the family group (`Akazu’) that destroyed their country and left one million dead. Wallis’ meticulous research uncovers a broad landscape of terror, looking back to the `forgotten’ Rwandan genocide of the early 1960s and the failure by the international community, to learn lessons of prevention and punishment, a failure that would be repeated thirty years later. Taking the rise and fall of Akazu personalities and their mafia-like network as its central strand, Stepp'd in Blood reveals how they were aided and abetted by western governments and the churches for decades. And how post-1994, many successfully evaded international justice to enjoy comfortable retirements in the same countries that supported them when they were in power. Stepp'd in Blood publishes in the year of the 25th commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide.

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Book SynopsisProviding a novel multi-disciplinary theorization of memory politics, this insightful Handbook brings varied literatures into a focused dialogue on the ways in which the past is remembered and how these influence transnational, interstate, and global politics in the present. With case studies from Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States, the Handbook focuses on the political features of historical memory in international relations. Chapters examine key concepts of memory politics, including accountability, commemoration and memorialization, the Europeanization of memory, and the politics of trauma and victimhood, as well as analyzing different sites of memory, from the human body and memorial sites to media, film, and television. It also answers essential questions such as who and what determines the relevance of the past in the present; how does memory become a political question; and what are the political effects and ethical implications of its mobilization? Exploring the links between the politics of memory, international ethics, law, and diplomacy, this stimulating Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of politics and international relations, cultural studies, history, and transitional justice. Its discussion of notable agents and practices of memory politics will also be beneficial for practitioners working in human rights, politics, and public policy.Trade Review‘Whether in the Russian invasion of Ukraine or in endless conflicts about monuments and school curricula, never before have the politics of memory so dramatically shaped international and domestic politics. This landmark collection of multidisciplinary essays represents the cutting edge of memory studies for scholars and practitioners.’ -- A. Dirk Moses, The City College of New York, US‘The Handbook is a long-awaited, excellent collective discussion on the critical question of memory politics, bringing many different disciplinary perspectives and regional focuses into dialogue. A must-read for all interested in how histories are reinterpreted in light of our present world.’ -- Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University, US‘This is a superb survey of the politics of memory. Thematically wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated, it will be of great value to both students and established scholars looking to explore the complex and endlessly contested relationship between past and present.’ -- Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Politics of memory: a conceptual introduction 1 Maria Mälksoo PART I CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES 2 Memory, identity and its politics 18 Felix Berenskötter 3 Ontological security and the politics of memory in international relations 31 Filip Ejdus 4 (Inter)national ethics and the politics of memory 46 Brent J. Steele and Luke B. Campbell 5 Law and the politics of memory 65 Uladzislau Belavusau 6 Europeanising memory: the European Union’s politics of memory 81 Aline Sierp 7 Provincializing European memory: transregional heritage politics and memory ethics across China’s Belt(s) and Road(s) Initiative(s) 95 John Njenga Karugia PART II ACTORS AND PRACTICES 8 Agents of memory politics 116 Laure Neumayer 9 The politics of commemoration and memorialization 130 Ljiljana Radonić 10 The politics of trauma and victimhood 147 Adam B. Lerner 11 Regretful memory politics: the way forward or a dead end? 163 Mano Toth 12 The politics of accountability 176 Victor Igreja 13 The politics of reconciliation and memory 191 Johanna Mannergren Selimovic PART III TOOLS AND SITES 14 The human body as site of memory politics 204 Jessica Auchter 15 Memorial sites: siting and sighting memory 216 Charlotte Heath-Kelly 16 Hunting down monuments: the CAF model—characteristics, actors, and functions 228 Ana Milošević 17 Memory in international diplomacy 246 Kathrin Bachleitner 18 (New) media memory 258 Nicole Maurantonio 19 Film, television, and the politics of memory in post-postracial America 272 Alison Landsberg 20 History education 285 Kazuya Fukuoka PART IV CONTEMPORARY CASES 21 World War II in global historical memory 304 Patrick Finney 22 Holocaust and global politics of memory 321 Jelena Subotić 23 ‘Culture war’: the contradictions of conservative representations in the mnemonic battle over the British Empire 334 Tom Bentley 24 Beyond bilateral conflict in the international politics of memory in East Asia: anxiety and reconciliation 349 Karl Gustafsson 25 Remembering the war, forgetting Stalin’s repressions: appeals to family memory in contemporary Russia 362 Ekaterina Haskins 26 From the ‘victim societies’ to the ‘societies of victimisation’: the memory of military atrocities in South America 377 Henrique Tavares Furtado Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an intellectual biography of the challenging concept of genocide from inception to present day, this topical Handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to shed new light on the events, processes, and legacies in the field.Reaching beyond the traditional study of canonical genocides and related pathologies of behaviour, this Handbook strives to spell out the multiple dimensions of genocide studies as an academic realm. In doing so, it incorporates a vast range of methods and disciplines, including historiography, archival research, listening to testimony, philosophical inquiry, film studies, and art criticism. Contributors address a broad array of episodes, including genocides of indigenous populations in the Americas and Africa, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, twentieth-century genocides in Indonesia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and twenty-first-century genocides in Iraq, Myanmar, and China. By developing a cross-disciplinary framework, this Handbook showcases the diversity that comprises the field and creates a rich understanding of the origin, effects, and legacy of genocide.With a wide variety of perspectives, this Handbook will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars of international and human rights, public policy, and political geography and geopolitics, particularly those interested in genocide studies and the UN Genocide Convention.Trade Review‘Reflecting the multi-disciplinary nature of genocide studies, this is an advanced Handbook of Genocide Studies, which engages with challenges in the field of genocide studies by examining how particular genocides and aspects of the genocide process impact the study of genocide. Taking the reader through key concepts, such as the birth of the term “genocide”, specific genocides, particular aspects of genocide, and important practical aspects of genocide such as genocide prevention, this is a valuable text for students and scholars of any discipline seeking to explore how we research this challenging field of study.’ -- Melanie O’Brien, University of Western Australia and International Association of Genocide ScholarsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Genocide Studies 1 David J. Simon PART I THE BIRTH OF A CONCEPT 1 The history of Raphaël Lemkin and the UN Genocide Convention 7 Douglas Irvin-Erickson PART II GENOCIDE STUDIES: HISTORY AND IDEAS 2 Genocide of Indigenous peoples in North America 28 David MacDonald 3 Destroying to replace: reflections on motive forces behind civilian-driven violence in settler genocides of Indigenous peoples 42 Mohamed Adhikari 4 The historiography of the Armenian genocide 54 Suren Manukyan 5 Holocaust research and genocide studies: facing the problem of integration 72 Charlotte Kiechel PART III GENOCIDE STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 6 The interpretation and (non-)application of the Genocide Convention during the Cold War 85 Anton Weiss-Wendt 7 Mass murder and genocide in Indonesia and Cambodia, 1965–79: Cold War, state, and region 95 Ben Kiernan 8 The impact of genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia on genocide policy and genocide studies 106 David J. Simon PART IV GENOCIDE STUDIES AS SOCIAL SCIENCE 9 State strategies to implement (and hide) genocide in China and Myanmar since 2017 123 Magnus Fiskesjö 10 Genocide prevention: perspectives from psychological and social economic choice models 142 Charles H. Anderton 11 The potential of – and problems with – perpetrator research 158 Christian Gudehus 12 Making choices: the roles of rescuers in Rwanda and Bosnia 172 Leora Kahn 13 Trauma, grief, and bereavement after genocide: the Rwandan case 181 Amélie Faucheux 14 Religion and genocide studies 198 Kate E. Temoney 15 Gender and sexual violence in genocide 214 Anna Di Lellio PART V GENOCIDE STUDIES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITES 16 Reframing the moment of first contact: lessons from the cinematic genre of science fiction 227 Daniel Conway 17 Music and genocide 238 Stéphanie Khoury 18 A network of witnesses: photography and genocide 249 Paul Lowe 19 Historical burden: art after genocide 263 Elmedin Žunić 20 Museums and the memory of genocide 277 Amy Sodaro PART VI GENOCIDE IN DISCOURSE 21 Questionable practices in genocide discourse 290 Aleksandar Jokic Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish Civil War: the massacre of 2,500 political prisoners by Republican security forces in the villages of Paracuellos and Torrejâon de Ardoz near Madrid in November/December 1936. The atrocity took place while Santiago Carrillo -- later Communist Party leader in the 1970s -- was responsible for public order. Although Carrillo played a key role in the transition to democracy after Franco's death in 1975, he passed away at the age of 97 in 2012 still denying any involvement in 'Paracuellos' (the generic term for the massacres). The issue of Carrillo's responsibility has been the focus of much historical research. Julius Ruiz places Paracuellos in the wider context of the 'Red Terror' in Madrid, where a minimum of 8,000 'fascists' were murdered after the failure of military rebellion in July 1936. He rejects both 'revisionist' right-wing writers such as Cesar Vidal who cite Paracuellos as evidence that the Republic committed Soviet-style genocide and left-wing historians such as Paul Preston, who in his Spanish Holocaust argues that the massacres were primarily the responsibility of the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. The book argues that Republican actions influenced the Soviets, not the other way round: Paracuellos intensified Stalin's fears of a 'Fifth Column' within the USSR that facilitated the Great Terror of 1937-38. It concludes that the perpetrators were primarily members of the Provincial Committee of Public Investigation (CPIP), a murderous all-leftist revolutionary tribunal created in August 1936, and that its work of eliminating the 'Fifth Column' (an imaginary clandestine Francoist organisation) was supported not just by Carrillo, but also by the Republican government. In Autumn 2015 the book was serialised in El Mundo, Spain's second largest selling daily, to great acclaim.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish Civil War: the massacre of 2,500 political prisoners by Republican security forces in the villages of Paracuellos and Torrejâon de Ardoz near Madrid in November/December 1936. The atrocity took place while Santiago Carrillo -- later Communist Party leader in the 1970s -- was responsible for public order. Although Carrillo played a key role in the transition to democracy after Franco's death in 1975, he passed away at the age of 97 in 2012 still denying any involvement in 'Paracuellos' (the generic term for the massacres). The issue of Carrillo's responsibility has been the focus of much historical research. Julius Ruiz places Paracuellos in the wider context of the 'Red Terror' in Madrid, where a minimum of 8,000 'fascists' were murdered after the failure of military rebellion in July 1936. He rejects both 'revisionist' right-wing writers such as Cesar Vidal who cite Paracuellos as evidence that the Republic committed Soviet-style genocide and left-wing historians such as Paul Preston, who in his Spanish Holocaust argues that the massacres were primarily the responsibility of the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. The book argues that Republican actions influenced the Soviets, not the other way round: Paracuellos intensified Stalin's fears of a 'Fifth Column' within the USSR that facilitated the Great Terror of 1937-38. It concludes that the perpetrators were primarily members of the Provincial Committee of Public Investigation (CPIP), a murderous all-leftist revolutionary tribunal created in August 1936, and that its work of eliminating the 'Fifth Column' (an imaginary clandestine Francoist organisation) was supported not just by Carrillo, but also by the Republican government. In Autumn 2015 the book was serialised in El Mundo, Spain's second largest selling daily, to great acclaim.

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Book SynopsisThis study recounts the reasons why the order for the Herero genocide was very likely issued by the Kaiser himself, and why proof of this has not emerged before now. In 1904, the indigenous Herero people of German South West Africa (now Namibia) rebelled against their German occupiers. In the following four years, the German army retaliated, killing between 60,000 and 100,000 Herero people, one of the worst atrocities ever. The history of the Herero genocide remains a key issue for many around the world partly because the German policy not to pay reparations for the Namibian genocide contrasts with its long-standing Holocaust reparations policy. The Herero case bears not only on transitional justice issues throughout Africa, but also on legal issues elsewhere in the world where reparations for colonial injustices have been called for. This book explores the events within the context of German South West Africa (GSWA) as the only German colony where settlement was actually attempted. The study contends that the genocide was not the work of one rogue general or the practices of the military, but that it was inexorably propelled by Germany's national goals at the time. The book argues that the Herero genocide was linked to Germany's late entry into the colonial race, which led it frenetically and ruthlessly to acquire multiple colonies all over the world within a very short period, using any means available. Jeremy Sarkin is Chairperson-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, and is at present Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. He is also an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and of the State of New York. A graduate of theUniversity of the Western Cape and of Harvard Law School he has been visiting professor at several US universities where he has taught Comparative Law, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia and Zimbabwe): University of Cape Town Press/JutaTrade Review[A] fine book. * WASHINGTON MONTHLY *Underscores the many issues that are still unresolved and will hopefully inspire further historical research. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY *Brings to light another dark chapter in Germany's history, a scholarly addition to any world history collection. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Aetiology of a genocide Annihilating 'the African tribes with streams of blood & streams of gold': implementing the genocide Did the Kaiser order the genocide? Conclusion

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Book SynopsisReassessing the Cambodian genocide through the lens of global capitalist development.James Tyner reinterprets the place of agriculture under the Khmer Rouge, positioning it in new ways relative to Marxism, capitalism, and genocide. The Cambodian revolutionaries' agricultural management is widely viewed by critics as irrational and dangerous, and it is invoked as part of wider efforts to discredit leftist movements. Researching the specific functioning of Cambodia's transition from farms to agriculture within the context of the global economy, Tyner comes to a different conclusion. He finds that analysis of "actually existing political economy"—as opposed to the Marxist identification the Khmer Rouge claimed—points to overlap between Cambodian practice and agrarian capitalism.Tyner argues that dissolution of the traditional Khmer family farm under the aegis of state capitalism is central to any understanding of the mass violence unleashed by the Khmer Rouge. Seen less as a radical outlier than as part of a global shift in farming and food politics, the Cambodian tragedy imparts new lessons to our understanding of the political economy of genocide.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. "Revolution Is the People's War" 2. "Be Masters of Your Own Destiny!" 3. "We Are Building Socialism in the Cooperatives" 4. "Currency Is a Most Poisonous Tool" Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic TitleFeatured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Why do we allow our governments to get away with “bystanding” to genocide? How can we, when alerted to the mass slaughter of innocents, still not take a stand? Reluctant Interveners provides the most comprehensive answers yet to these confronting questions, focusing on the complex relationships between the citizenry, the media, the political elites, and institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America. Eyal Mayroz offers a sobering account of the interactions between the governing and the governed, and the dynamics which transformed moral concerns for the lives of faraway “others” into cold political calculations. Exposed are the processes that turned the promise of “never again” to a recurring reality of ever again, the role of the office of the presidency in their advancement, and the resultant image of America as seen by the rest of the world. In a time of ubiquitous social media and populist revival, a greater role for the U.S. citizenry in decision-making on responses to genocide may be in the cards. The question is, in which directions will these trends take American foreign policy?Trade Review"This serious, balanced, and compelling account of American ambivalence is sober but important reading. It could not be more timely." -- Edward C. Luck * School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University *"Genocide will not happen again if societies and governments respond properly. Sober and strong, this book focuses on the USA and its citizens and is an invitation to all to do what is possible and right." -- Andrea Bartoli * Dean, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University *"A powerful and well-researched reality check thoughtfully reminding us of the enormous amount of research on domestic politics and foreign policy that remains to be done before genocide prevention can become a functioning international norm." -- Frank Chalk * Professor of History and Research Director, MIGS, Concordia University *“Mayroz’s book helps all of us, governmental or not, American or not, to look inward to see whether we are doing the right thing, and enough of it." * World Nutrition *"“[S]tudents and scholars interested in human rights would be well advised to seek out this book. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“[A] significant contribution to the study of the United States’ relationship with genocide…methodical and comprehensive…tightly filled with significant research and findings…contributes to bridging the gap between academic scholarship and policy. [E]ssential reading for scholars, students, activists, civil society actors, elected officials, and members of nongovernmental and intergovernmental institutions." * Genocide Studies & Prevention *Interview with the book Author: Eyal Mayroz, “Reluctant Interveners: America’s Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur,” at: https://podcasts.apple.com/gh/podcast/eyal-mayroz-reluctant-interveners-americas-failed-responses/id426479249?i=1000456774261 * New Books in World Affairs podcast *Radio Adelaide interview with Eyal Mayroz * Radio Adelaide *2SER Radio interview with Eyal Mayroz * 2SER Radio *"Outstanding Academic Titles 2020: International Relations: Five International Relations titles selected from the Choice Reviews 2020 Outstanding Academic Titles list" * Choice *Table of ContentsAmerica's relationship with genocide A policy-opinion nexus: legitimating inaction on genocide? Words versus deeds in America's relationship with genocide Domestic responses to genocide: public opinion versus public behaviour America and the first genocide of the twenty-first century Determining factors in the making of the US Darfur policy conclusions

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Book SynopsisHow can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deeply personal work, acclaimed art historian Dora Apel examines how memorials, photographs, artworks, and autobiographical stories can be used to fuel a process of “unforgetting”—reinterpreting the past by recalling the events, people, perspectives, and feelings that get excluded from conventional histories. The ten essays in Calling Memory into Place feature explorations of the controversy over a painting of Emmett Till in the Whitney Biennial and the debates about a national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. They also include personal accounts of Apel’s return to the Polish town where her Holocaust survivor parents grew up, as well as the ways she found strength in her inherited trauma while enduring treatment for breast cancer. These essays shift between the scholarly, the personal, and the visual as different modes of knowing, and explore the intersections between racism, antisemitism, and sexism, while suggesting how awareness of historical trauma is deeply inscribed on the body. By investigating the relations among place, memory, and identity, this study shines a light on the dynamic nature of memory as it crosses geography and generations.Trade Review"Calling Memory into Place is written out of a deep conviction in the emancipatory and reparative potentials of memory. Building on the trauma and the resilience inherited from her mother’s survival of the Holocaust, Dora Apel powerfully explores how memorials, visual artworks, and personal narratives of illness and recovery can mobilize us in the struggle for social justice." -- Marianne Hirsch * co-author of School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference *"In this deeply personal and thoughtful book, Dora Apel explores what it means to recall terrible events and what is at stake in forgetting them. She shows us that artworks, memorials and monuments, however fixed they may be in their form, are also malleable in their meaning when they are mobilized by individuals, communities and governments. Whether she is writing about recent attempts to reckon with America’s legacy of racial violence, the dilemmas that arise from efforts to memorialize the Holocaust, or her own struggle with cancer, Apel’s approach is always lucid, empathic and moving." -- Coco Fusco * Cooper Union School of Arts *"An inherently fascinating, thoughtful and thought-provoking series of insightfully informative essays on the role of memory in processing personal, social, cultural and political histories, Calling Memory into Place is an impressive and original work that is nicely illustrated throughout in full color." * Midwest Book Review *"Apel brings it all to bear in this extraordinary book." * PopMatters *"The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction" * PopMatters, The Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction *The Library Café interview with Dora Apel * The Library Cafe *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Passages and Streets 1. A Memorial for Walter Benjamin 2. “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” Part II: Memorials and Museums 3. Why We Need a National Lynching Memorial 4. “Let the World See What I Have Seen” Part III: Hometowns and Homelands 5. Seeing What Can No Longer Be Seen 6. Borders and Walls Part IV: Hospitals and Cemeteries 7. Sprung from the Head 8. Parallel Universes Part V: Body and Mind 9. Reclaiming the Self 10. The Care of Others Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDiaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses. In this work, scholars from the United States, Israel, and across Europe bring a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to their study of the Holocaust and its aftermath from the family perspective. Drawing on research from Belarus to Great Britain, and examining both Jewish and Romani families, they demonstrate the importance of recognizing how people continued to function within family units—broadly defined—throughout the war and afterward.Trade Review"Charting how both Jewish and Romani families dealt with Nazi persecution, this volume offers a long-overdue and innovative attempt to integrate the histories of these two racially persecuted groups." -- Ari Joskowicz * author of The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France *In an innovatively comparative and integrated framework, the diverse contributions to this groundbreaking volume examine the variety of intimate ties that Jews and Roma built and broke in their efforts to survive the onslaught of the Holocaust. This outstanding book should top the reading list of anyone interested in the effects of genocide on the most fundamental of human relationships. -- Benjamin Frommer * co-editor of Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extreme *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Why the Family? Kateřina Čapková and Eliyana R. Adler Part 1 - Family in Times of Genocide The Romani Family before and during the Holocaust - How Much do We Know? An Ethnographic-Historical Study in the Belarusian-Lithuanian Border Region Volha Bartash Separation and Divorce in the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettos Michal Unger Narrating Daily Family Life in Ghettos under Nazi Occupation: Concepts and Dilemmas Dalia Ofer Uneasy Bonds: On Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families Natalia Aleksiun Part II - Intervention of Institutions Siblings in the Holocaust and its Aftermath in France and the United States: Rethinking the “Holocaust Orphan”? Laura Hobson Faure The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945–49 Viktória Bányai ‘For Your Benefit’: Military Marriage Policies, European Jewish War Brides, and the Centrality of Family, 1944–1950 Robin Judd Part III - Rebuilding the Family after the Holocaust ‘Returning to Normality?’: The Struggle of Sinti and Roma Survivors to Rebuild a Life in Postwar Germany Anja Reuss ‘I Could Never Forget What They’d Done to My Father’: The Absence and Presence of Holocaust Memory in a Family’s Letter Collection Joachim Schlör ‘Looking for a Nice Jewish girl ...’: Personal Ads and the Creation of Jewish Families in Germany before and after the Holocaust Sarah E. Wobick-Segev The Postwar Migration of Romani Families from Slovakia to the Bohemian Lands: A Complex Legacy of War and Genocide in Czechoslovakia Helena Sadílková Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisFrom the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.Trade Review"This theoretically sophisticated yet accessible book marks an important advance for research. It breaks from mainstream approaches and introduces a novel set of explorations around the idea of 'resonant violence,' going well beyond the concept of trauma as normally understood. It should be widely read." -- Ernesto Verdeja * University of Notre Dame *"Kerry Whigham's great intelligence and sensibility are on display throughout this book. In addition to introducing the notion of 'resonant violence,' he not only integrates memory studies, affect theory, performance studies, and transitional justice eruditely to the study of the topic, but also shows the importance of embodied practices for addressing and preventing genocidal violence." -- Pablo de Greiff * Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU and First UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence *"This authoritative, informative and resourceful book contributes to new knowledge on forms of genocidal violence, oppression, discrimination and structural institutional power in context specific ways with a blend of astounding clarity, conciseness and sharp analysis. Kerry Whigham emphasizes that oppression of any kind is not the natural order of society and explains, using examples, how groups of people come together to understand how violence is constructed, perpetuated and structurally advanced. These people offer crucial lessons for consideration of a possible post-discriminatory world as not only possible, but necessary. This book is an essential resource for anyone in the field of genocide studies and the prevention of violent conflict." -- Alice Wairimu Nderitu * Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide *"This theoretically sophisticated yet accessible book marks an important advance for research. It breaks from mainstream approaches and introduces a novel set of explorations around the idea of 'resonant violence,' going well beyond the concept of trauma as normally understood. It should be widely read." -- Ernesto Verdeja * University of Notre Dame *"Kerry Whigham's great intelligence and sensibility are on display throughout this book. In addition to introducing the notion of 'resonant violence,' he not only integrates memory studies, affect theory, performance studies, and transitional justice eruditely to the study of the topic, but also shows the importance of embodied practices for addressing and preventing genocidal violence." -- Pablo de Greiff * Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU and First UN Special Rapporteur for t *"This authoritative, informative and resourceful book contributes to new knowledge on forms of genocidal violence, oppression, discrimination and structural institutional power in context specific ways with a blend of astounding clarity, conciseness and sharp analysis. Kerry Whigham emphasizes that oppression of any kind is not the natural order of society and explains, using examples, how groups of people come together to understand how violence is constructed, perpetuated and structurally advanced. These people offer crucial lessons for consideration of a possible post-discriminatory world as not only possible, but necessary. This book is an essential resource for anyone in the field of genocide studies and the prevention of violent conflict." -- Alice Wairimu Nderitu * Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “The Abuse Lives in our Blood” 1. Resonant Violence: The Felt Unfelt of Genocide and Its Aftermath 2. Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin 3. Filling the Absence: Embodied Engagements with Former Sites of Atrocity 4. Embodied Justice: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-Action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina 5. Occupying Space, Amplifying Affect: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island 6. Conclusion: Out of the Desert Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.Trade Review"This theoretically sophisticated yet accessible book marks an important advance for research. It breaks from mainstream approaches and introduces a novel set of explorations around the idea of 'resonant violence,' going well beyond the concept of trauma as normally understood. It should be widely read." -- Ernesto Verdeja * University of Notre Dame *"Kerry Whigham's great intelligence and sensibility are on display throughout this book. In addition to introducing the notion of 'resonant violence,' he not only integrates memory studies, affect theory, performance studies, and transitional justice eruditely to the study of the topic, but also shows the importance of embodied practices for addressing and preventing genocidal violence." -- Pablo de Greiff * Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU and First UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence *"This authoritative, informative and resourceful book contributes to new knowledge on forms of genocidal violence, oppression, discrimination and structural institutional power in context specific ways with a blend of astounding clarity, conciseness and sharp analysis. Kerry Whigham emphasizes that oppression of any kind is not the natural order of society and explains, using examples, how groups of people come together to understand how violence is constructed, perpetuated and structurally advanced. These people offer crucial lessons for consideration of a possible post-discriminatory world as not only possible, but necessary. This book is an essential resource for anyone in the field of genocide studies and the prevention of violent conflict." -- Alice Wairimu Nderitu * Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide *"This theoretically sophisticated yet accessible book marks an important advance for research. It breaks from mainstream approaches and introduces a novel set of explorations around the idea of 'resonant violence,' going well beyond the concept of trauma as normally understood. It should be widely read." -- Ernesto Verdeja * University of Notre Dame *"Kerry Whigham's great intelligence and sensibility are on display throughout this book. In addition to introducing the notion of 'resonant violence,' he not only integrates memory studies, affect theory, performance studies, and transitional justice eruditely to the study of the topic, but also shows the importance of embodied practices for addressing and preventing genocidal violence." -- Pablo de Greiff * Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU and First UN Special Rapporteur for t *"This authoritative, informative and resourceful book contributes to new knowledge on forms of genocidal violence, oppression, discrimination and structural institutional power in context specific ways with a blend of astounding clarity, conciseness and sharp analysis. Kerry Whigham emphasizes that oppression of any kind is not the natural order of society and explains, using examples, how groups of people come together to understand how violence is constructed, perpetuated and structurally advanced. These people offer crucial lessons for consideration of a possible post-discriminatory world as not only possible, but necessary. This book is an essential resource for anyone in the field of genocide studies and the prevention of violent conflict." -- Alice Wairimu Nderitu * Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “The Abuse Lives in our Blood” 1. Resonant Violence: The Felt Unfelt of Genocide and Its Aftermath 2. Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin 3. Filling the Absence: Embodied Engagements with Former Sites of Atrocity 4. Embodied Justice: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-Action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina 5. Occupying Space, Amplifying Affect: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island 6. Conclusion: Out of the Desert Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHuman Rights at Risk brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars to analyze the policy challenges of human rights protection in the twenty-first century. The volume is organized based on three overarching themes that highlight the challenges and risks in international human rights: international institutions and global governance of human rights; thematic blind spots in human rights protection; and the human rights challenges of the United States as a global and domestic actor amidst the contemporary global shifts to authoritarianism and illiberal populism. One of the very few books that offer new perspectives that envision the future of transnational human rights norms and human dignity from a multidisciplinary perspective, Human Rights at Risk comprehensively examines the causes and consequences of the challenges faced by international human rights. Scholars, students, and policy practitioners who are interested in the challenges and reform prospects of the international human rights regime, United States foreign policy, and international institutions will find this multidisciplinary volume an invaluable guide to the state of global politics in the twenty-first century. Trade Review"Human Rights at Risk provides a much-needed, thoughtful, and forward-looking assessment of human rights at a critical moment. The authors are realistic about challenges from super powers and authoritarians alike. Yet they also see hope in grassroots movements far from power centers in Geneva and New York that use human rights to work for transformational change." -- Robin Kirk * author of Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World *"A tour de force of the challenges and contradictions facing the current human rights movement. By problematizing the universal acceptance of individual human rights norms, the authors have allowed for a major leap in our understanding of global abuses. The diversity of author backgrounds, disciplines, and approaches adds to the validity of their argument and should be the gold standard for all human rights and international relations scholarship." -- Amanda Murdie * editor in chief of International Studies Review *"Human Rights at Risk is also a set of essays on humanity at risk. Contributors demonstrate both how the application of human rights, as well as their repression, are central to the state we are in. Whether providing theoretical or empirical accounts, there are gems in this volume that should grab the attention of international lawyers." -- Margot E. Salomon * co-author of The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy *"This volume highlights how the concept of human rights is broadened, how this issue is recognized across the world, but also how vulnerable the regime is to threats from populism and US isolationism. By addressing human rights from the different viewpoints of international institutions, states, and victims, it provides a unique compelling, informative, and though-provoking resource for readers interested in international relations and current affairs." -- Joakim Kreutz * co-editor of Debating the East Asian Peace: What it is. How it Came About. Will it Last? *"Human Rights at Risk provides a much-needed, thoughtful, and forward-looking assessment of human rights at a critical moment. The authors are realistic about challenges from super powers and authoritarians alike. Yet they also see hope in grassroots movements far from power centers in Geneva and New York that use human rights to work for transformational change." -- Robin Kirk * author of Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World *"A tour de force of the challenges and contradictions facing the current human rights movement. By problematizing the universal acceptance of individual human rights norms, the authors have allowed for a major leap in our understanding of global abuses. The diversity of author backgrounds, disciplines, and approaches adds to the validity of their argument and should be the gold standard for all human rights and international relations scholarship." -- Amanda Murdie * editor in chief of International Studies Review *"Human Rights at Risk is also a set of essays on humanity at risk. Contributors demonstrate both how the application of human rights, as well as their repression, are central to the state we are in. Whether providing theoretical or empirical accounts, there are gems in this volume that should grab the attention of international lawyers." -- Margot E. Salomon * co-author of The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy *"This volume highlights how the concept of human rights is broadened, how this issue is recognized across the world, but also how vulnerable the regime is to threats from populism and US isolationism. By addressing human rights from the different viewpoints of international institutions, states, and victims, it provides a unique compelling, informative, and though-provoking resource for readers interested in international relations and current affairs." -- Joakim Kreutz * co-editor of Debating the East Asian Peace: What it is. How it Came About. Will it Last? *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Global Human Rights Regime: Risks and Contestations Chapter 2: Transparency, Accountability, and Legitimacy within the UN Universal Periodic Review Chapter 3: After Obama: The African Group at the UN Human Rights Council Chapter 4: Consensus and Human Rights Politics: The Case of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Chapter 5: Skewed Vision: Human Rights in War through the Eyes in Peace Chapter 6: Who Are the Victims of Crimes Against Cultural Heritage? Chapter 7: Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Genocide: The War on Drugs in the Philippines Chapter 8: Human Rights at Risk in the Era of Trump and American Decline Chapter 9: The Tyranny of Exceptionalism: How the United States Rejects Universal Human Rights Chapter 10: Natural Law and the Future of Human Rights Chapter 11: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Thoughts on Global Human Rights in the 21st Century Chapter 12: Risks and Emancipatory Rights Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical analysis of how the “war on terror” affected the civilian population in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This “forgotten war,” which started in 2001 with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, has seen more than 212,000 people killed in war-related incidents. Whilst most of the news media shifted their attention to other conflict zones, this war rages on. Badalič has amassed a vast amount of data on the civilian victims of war from both sides of the Durand line, the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He conducted interviews in Peshawar, Quetta, Islamabad, Kabul, Jalalabad, and many other cities and villages from 2008 to 2017. His data is mostly drawn from those extensive conversations held with civilian victims of war, Afghan and Pakistani officials, human-rights activists and members of the insurgency. The book is divided into three parts. The first examines the impact the US-led coalition, Afghan security forces and paramilitary groups had on civilians, with methods of combat such as drone strikes and kill-or-capture missions. The second part focuses on civilian victims of abuses of power by Pakistani security forces, including arbitrary detentions and forced disappearances. In the final part, Badalič explores the impact of unlawful practices used by the armed insurgency – the Afghan Taliban. Overall, the book seeks to tell the story of the civilian victims of the “War on Terror".Table of Contents1. Introduction: Creating A Reign Of Terror.- 2. Inherently Imprecise Killings: Civilian Victims In U.S. Drone Strikes In Afghanistan And Pakistan.- 3. Death Comes At Night: Civilian Victims In U.S. Kill-Or-Capture Missions In Afghanistan.- 4. The War On Due Process: Civilian Victims Of The U.S. Arbitrary Detention Program In Afghanistan.- 5. Systemic Torture, The New Normal: Civilian Victims Of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” In Afghan Detention Facilities. - 6. In Militias We Trust: Civilian Victims Of Targeted Killings By Pro-Government Armed Groups In Afghanistan.- 7. The “White Detainees”: Civilian Victims Of Arbitrary Detentions In Pakistan.- 8. The “Disappeared”: Civilian Victims Of Enforced Disappearances In Pakistan.- 9. Death Sentences On Twitter: Civilian Victims Of Secret Military Courts In Pakistan.- 10. The Reverse Exodus: The Forced Repatriation Of Afghan Refugees In Pakistan.- 11. Eliminating “Pernicious Individuals”: Civilian Victims Of The Afghan Taliban’s Targeted Killing Program.- 12. Executions, Amputations, And Lashings: Civilian Victims Of The Afghan Taliban’s Parallel Justice System.- 13. Taking “Civilian Criminals” As Hostages: Civilian Victims Of Abductions By The Afghan Taliban.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drápal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Hermann Frank, who would go on to be executed for his role in organizing the massacres of the Czech villages Lidice and Ležáky in 1942. Celebrating Resler’s lifelong commitment to justice—to honoring even the most nefarious criminals’ right to a defense—Drápal highlights events that influenced Resler’s outlook and legal career, important cases that preceded Frank’s trial, Resler’s subsequent defenses of other Nazi criminals, and the final years of Resler’s life under the communist regime.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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