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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Politics of Memory
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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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Genocide Studies
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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Berghahn Books The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht: Nazi
Book Synopsis Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals during the Second World War. This in-depth study demonstrates that a key factor in the criminalization of the Wehrmacht was the intense political indoctrination imposed on its members. At the instigation of senior leadership, many ordinary German soldiers and officers became ideological warriors who viewed their enemies in racial and political terms—a project that was but one piece of the broader effort to socialize young men during the Nazi era.Trade Review “Sait's work is an exciting read that makes it plausible that political indoctrination within the Wehrmacht had an important influence on the actions of soldiers during the war.” • H-Soz-Kult “[This book] does significantly further our understanding of the mechanisms and extent of indoctrination within the Wehrmacht. Scholarly and engaging, it deserves the attention of both students and specialists in this area.” • American Historical Review “Sait has produced an excellent, bounded study of the Nazi apparatus of indoctrination of the German military. His clear focus on the means and intent of the authorities makes this a balanced approach to peeling the onion of perpetrator motivation, both individually and at the organizational level. He addresses elements of the process that seem to be taken for granted by other scholars and, as a result, produces a book that will be appreciated by scholars and advanced students alike.” • Journal of Modern History “Sait’s examination of the military intentionally feeding Nazi propaganda to its troops during the 1930s and the pre-Barbarossa period addresses a significant gap in the literature…[The author] has pointed the way forward for further research with this volume.” • German History “…a valuable addition because it explores how military education interacted with National Socialist ideology in and outside of the barracks.” • Holocaust & Genocide Studies “This is an important book, one that provides a clear and compelling narrative for readers interested in how the Wehrmacht evolved into a willing tool of the Führer. While it relies heavily on the findings of previous research, Sait’s approach effectively situates these findings within the context of the Wehrmacht’s institutional culture dating back to the beginnings of the Nazi regime.” • Europe Now “The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht is a well-written piece of work centering on an important topic that has not yet been adequately covered.” • Raffael Scheck, Colby College “Both Sait’s theoretical framework and methodological approach are convincing and close a research gap that has emerged in the field over the last decade. This book is intellectually fascinating and makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the topic.” • Walter Manoschek, University of ViennaTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. A Political Military? Chapter 2. The Goals and Effects of Indoctrination Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Nazi Ideological Education in the Wehrmacht Chapter 4. The Lead-Up to War and the Poland Campaign Chapter 5. The Hitler Youth and the Reich Labour Service Chapter 6. Christianity and the Military Chaplaincy: A Competing Influence in the Wehrmacht? Chapter 7. The Serbian Campaign and the Eastern Front Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books Repressed, Remitted, Rejected: German Reparations
Book Synopsis Since unification, the Federal Republic of Germany has made vaunted efforts to make amends for the crimes of the Third Reich. Yet it remains the case that the demands for restitution by many countries that were occupied during the Second World War are unresolved, and recent demands from Greece and Poland have only reignited old debates. This book reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and gives a thorough accounting of these debates. Working from the perspective of international law, it deepens the scholarly discourse around the issue, clarifying the ‘never-ending story’ of German reparations policy and making a principled call for further action. A compilation of primary sources comprising 125 annotated key texts (512 pages) on the complexity of reparations discussions covering the period between 1941 and the end of 2017 is available for free on the Berghahn Books website, doi: 10.3167/9781800732575.dd.Table of Contents List of tables Preface to the English Edition Acknowledgements Introduction: Methodological and Historical Aspects of the Reparations Problem Part I: The Price of Plunder Chapter 1. Exploitation and Destruction: The Occupation of Poland (1939–1945) Chapter 2. The Occupation and Plundering of Greece (1941–1944) Chapter 3. Testing Grounds of Occupation Policy: Poland and Greece in Comparison with the Rest of Nazi-Occupied Europe Part II: The Failure of the Allies Chapter 4. Allied Reparation Policies: From Joint Plans to the Cold War Chapter 5. Poland as Part of the Eastern Reparations Zone (1945–1953) Chapter 6. Developments in the Western Reparations Zone (1945–1951): The Conceptual Guidelines of Britain and the United States Part III: Divide et Impera Chapter 7. The Reparations Policy of the West German Power Elites through to the End of the 1980s Chapter 8. Greece on the Sidelines Once Again Chapter 9. Interim Conclusions Chapter 10. The Two-Plus-Four Treaty and The Exclusion of the Reparations Question Chapter 11. Developments since the 1990s Chater 12. Greece Comes Away Empty-Handed Chapter 13. New Conflicts: The Controversy Surrounding German Reparations Debt since 2015, and the Problem of ‘Remembrance Culture’ Chapter 14. Guilt and Debt: The Extent of Germany's Reparations Debt and What Has Been Paid So Far Chapter 15. Arguments in Favour of a Final Reparations Amendment to the Two-Plus-Four Treaty Appendix: Notes and Links for Digital Documentation with Lists of Documents Abbreviations Sources and bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945: Crimes,
Book Synopsis The Vienna Gestapo headquarters was the largest of its kind in the German Reich and the most important instrument of Nazi terror in Austria, responsible for the persecution of Jews, suppression of resistance and policing of forced labourers. Of the more than fifty thousand people arrested by the Vienna Gestapo, many were subjected to torturous interrogation before being either sent to concentration camps or handed over to the Nazi judiciary for prosecution. This comprehensive survey by three expert historians focuses on these victims of repression and persecution as well as the structure of the Vienna Gestapo and the perpetrators of its crimes.Trade Review “An outstanding new study about the largest regional Gestapo headquarters in Hitler’s realm.” • American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian ResistanceTable of Contents List of Figures and Charts Acknowledgements Notes on Text and Transliteration List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction Chapter 1. The Gestapo as the Central Terror Instrument of the Nazi Regime Chapter 2. Establishment of the Gestapo in Austria and of Its Regional Headquarters in Vienna Chapter 3. Hotel Metropole: Headquarters of the Vienna Gestapo Chapter 4. The Gestapo in the Network of the SS and Political Structures – Organization of the Vienna Gestapo Chapter 5. The Officials and Employees of the Vienna Gestapo Chapter 6. Working Procedures and Methods of the Vienna Gestapo Chapter 7. Informants and Cell Spies – ‘Radio Games’ Chapter 8. Denunciations Chapter 9. Mass Arrests Chapter 10. The Vienna Gestapo and the Persecution of the Jews Chapter 11. Persecution of the Catholic Church and other Religious Bodies Chapter 12. Suppression of Organized Resistance Chapter 13. Suppression of Non-organized Resistance Chapter 14. Oberlanzendorf ‘Labour Education Camp’ Chapter 15. Vienna Gestapo Officials on ‘External Deployment’ Chapter 16. End-Phase Crimes Chapter 17. The End of the Vienna Gestapo Chapter 18. Prosecution of Vienna Gestapo Officials Summary and Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a
Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career... a life littered with corpses.' - THE TIMESA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine.In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war.Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history - Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putin's rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respond.'An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book.' - NIHAL ARTHANAYAKEInstant Sunday Times bestseller, March 2023Trade ReviewAn extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book. * NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE *This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career... a life littered with corpses. * The Times *'No one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful people.' * VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE *'Words have power, Putin is afraid of the truth, I have always said that.' * ALEXEI NAVALNY, LEADER OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION *'Putin is the main war criminal of the 21st century.' * IRYNA VENEDIKTOVA, UKRAINE’S PROSECUTOR-GENERAL *'The evil dwarf-president is merely another one of those damn fool misfits like that scrappy little Stalin, or wee little Lenin.' * BORIS NEMTSOV, ASSASSINATED RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER *'A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people's love for liberty. This man cannot remain in power.' * JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES *'Examines the sins of the Russian leader's regime' * iPAPER *Vivid, harrowing and urgently personal * DAILY MAIL *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Righteous of the Armenian Genocide
Book SynopsisShines long-overdue light on the heroic individuals who took action in the face of the Armenian genocide. This book tells the stories of the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others who made a courageous stand against the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, the first modern genocide. Foreigners and Ottomans alike ran considerable risks to bear witness and rescue victims, sometimes sacrificing their lives. Diplomats, humanitarians, missionaries, lawyers and other visitors to the Empire stood up, including Tolstoy’s daughter, Alexandra; Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who first established genocide as an international crime; and the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who recognised and relieved the plight of stateless Armenian refugees. Ottoman subjects—from officials and officers to ordinary townspeople and villagers—faced near-certain death for their entire family by resisting orders and helping Armenians. Unlike the Righteous of the Holocaust, these heroes have been systematically ignored and erased—a major injustice. Based on fresh research, and hoping to repay a moral debt to Ottoman Muslims who braved everything to rescue the authors’ forebears, this book is an important, moving testament to a grievously overlooked aspect of the Armenian tragedy.Trade Review‘[This book] has a real contemporary importance.’ -- Labour Hub'Encyclopaedic ... an important historical reference of resistance.' -- The Wall Street Journal
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Madam War Criminal
Book SynopsisA personal history of conflict, imprisonment and unrepentance, from the only woman convicted of crimes against humanity for her role in the Bosnian war.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity
Book SynopsisGenocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes & the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understanding of an important but under-researched dimension: the involvement of the US and other liberal democracies in actions that are conventionally depicted as the exclusive province of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. Many of the authors are eminent scholars and/or renowned activists; in most cases, their contributions are specifically written for this volume. In the opening and closing sections of the book, analytical issues are considered, including questions of responsibility for genocide and war crimes, and institutional responses at both the domestic and international levels. The central section is devoted to an unprecedentedly broad range of original case studies of western involvement, or alleged involvement, in war crimes and genocide. At a moment in history when terrorism has become a near universal focus of public attention, this volume makes clear why the West, as a result of both its historical legacy and contemporary actions, so often excites widespread resentment and opposition throughout the rest of the world.Trade Review'This exceptionally well selected, brilliantly edited collection of writings provides the most comprehensive treatment of Western responsibility for mass atrocity yet published. The cumulative impact of the volume is a devastating indictment of state terrorism as practised by the West, both historically, and now after September 11 in the name of "anti-terrorism." ' Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University 'In the names of millions of forgotten victims, from Wounded Knee to My Lai, a brilliant tribunal of scholars assail the himalayan hypocrisy of "Western humanitarianism." ' Mike Davis, author of Late Victorian Holocausts ‘Like communist and third world regimes, Western states have been opponents, bystanders, accomplices and perpetrators of genocide and war crimes. In different cases, they have also variously ignored, denied, covered up, re-examined, recanted, and refused to apologise for their roles. Is there a pattern here? "Genocide, War Crimes & the West" is definitely worth reading. In case studies and thematic essays, the authors offer a variety of answers and raise important new questions about democracy, foreign policy, and international law, uncovering the complexity along with the complicity in the West‘s relationships and approaches to genocide and war crimes.‘ Ben Kiernan, Yale University, and editor of Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia. 'This book documents one of the darkest chapters in recent history. It tells the story of what the "First World" - the Western democracies, most prominently the United States -- have done mainly against countries and peoples in the South and in the former socialist world. It is a history of aggression, indiscriminate bombing, war crimes, and massacres since the 1970s, the story of Western complicity in genocide in the South and East, and worse, it is about genocide committed by these democracies themselves. This path-breaking book fills a huge void; it carefully accounts for serious crimes that others have shamefully avoided, omitted or denied.' Christian P. Scherrer, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan; author of Genocide and Crisis. ‘A revealing compendium of studies regarding the crimes against humanity committed by "Western democracies." This book should give citizens a better sense of those parts of our history that remain largely unexamined and untaught.‘ Michael Parenti, author of "The Terrorism Trap" and "The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People‘s History of Ancient Rome"Table of Contents Contents Part I: Overview 1. Introduction: Genocide, War Crimes and the West - Adam Jones 2. Shades of Complicity: Towards a Typology of Transnational Crimes against Humanity - Peter Stoett Part II: Genocide, War Crimes and the West 3. Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa: Genocide and the Quest for Recompense - Jan-Bart Gewald 4. Genocide by Any Other Name: North American Indian Residential Schools in Context - Ward Churchill 5. The Allies in World War Two: The Anglo-American Bombardment of German Cities - Eric Langenbacher 6. Torture and Other Violations of the Law by the French Army during the Algerian War - Raphaëlle Branche 7. Atrocity and Its Discontents: U.S. Double-Mindedness about Massacre, from the Plains Wars to Indonesia - Peter Dale Scott 8. Bob Kerrey's Atrocity, the Crime of Vietnam, and the Historic Pattern of U.S. Imperialism - S. Brian Willson Document 1 (1) Inaugural Statement to the Russell Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal (1966) -- Jean-Paul Sartre 9. Charles Horman et alia vs. Henry Kissinger: U.S. Intervention in 1970s Chile and the Case for Prosecutions - Mario I. Aguilar 10. The Wretched of the Nations: The West's Role in Human Rights Violations in the Bangladesh War of Independence - Suhail Islam and Syed Hassan 11. Indicting Henry Kissinger: The Response of Raphael Lemkin - Steven L. Jacobs 12. Crimes of the West in Democratic Congo: Reflections on Belgian Acceptance of "Moral Responsibility" for the Death of Lumumba - Thomas Turner 13. In the Name of the Cold War: How the West Aided and Abetted the Barre Dictatorship of Somalia - Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi 14. The Security Council: Behind the Scenes in the Rwanda Genocide - Linda R. Melvern 15. U.S. Policy and Iraq: A Case of Genocide? - Denis J. Halliday Documents 2 & 3 (2) Criminal Complaint against the United States and Others for Crimes against the People of Iraq - Ramsey Clark (3) Letter to the Security Council (2001) - Ramsey Clark 16. The Fire in 1999? The United States, Nato, and the Bombing of Yugoslavia - David Bruce Macdonald 17. Collateral Damage: The Human Cost of Structural Violence - Peter G. Prontzos Part III: Truth and Restitution 18. Institutional Responses to Genocide and Mass Atrocity - Ernesto Verdeja 19. International Citizens' Tribunals on Human Rights - Arthur Jay Klinghoffer 20. Coming to Terms with the Past: The Case for a Truth and Reparations Commission on Slavery, Segregation, and Colonialism - Francis Njubi Nesbitt Document 4(4) Declarations on the Transatlantic Slave Trade - World Conference against Racism: Part IV: Closing Observations 21. Afghanistan and Beyond - Adam Jones 22. Letter to America - Breyten Breytenbach Index
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Vintage Publishing The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the
Book SynopsisThe Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history's greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party and their views on the Holocaust. Their reflections are recorded in a set of interviews conducted by a U.S. Army psychiatrist. Dr Leon Goldensohn was entrusted with monitoring the mental health of the two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide, as well as that of many of the defence and prosecution witnesses. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years.Here are interviews with some of the highest-ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails, including Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernest Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Here, too, are interviews with lesser-known officials who were, nonetheless, essential to the workings of the Third Reich. Goldensohn was a particularly astute interviewer, his training as a psychiatrist leading him to probe the motives, the rationales, and the skewing of morality that allowed these men to enact an unfathomable evil. Candid and often shockingly truthful, these interviews are deeply disturbing in their illumination of an ideology gone mad.Each interview is annotated with biographical information and footnotes that place the man and his actions in their historical context and are a profoundly important addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.Trade ReviewA gripping work of history, a series of oral narratives that drag the reader, almost by force, into the nightmarish mental landscape of the Third Reich -- William Grimes * New York Times *A rare document...striking proof of the banality of evil * Kirkus Reviews *Goldensohn serves as a down-to-earth Dante in these anterooms to hell, getting one damned soul after another to reveal himself in his own words...as Goldensohn made his rounds, he mostly kept his astonishment and dismay under control. It's more than readers will be able to do * Newsweek *Goldensohn's conversations with these men are perturbing because most of the them seem like many of us except for the circumstances that lured them into opportunistic deviance. Goldensohn may not have left a headline-making legacy of belated revelations, but he has complicated further the tapestry of evil * Publishers Weekly *Virtually all the top Nazi officials tried at Nuremberg are interviewed here, and their responses make for fascinating yet chilling reading... Without necessarily intending to do so, these men reveal how easily totalitarian systems can induce acquiescence to or even enthusiastic participation in evil * Booklist *
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Liverpool University Press 'Paracuellos': The Elimination of the 'Fifth
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.
£100.00
Liverpool University Press 'Paracuellos': The Elimination of the 'Fifth
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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James Currey Germany's Genocide of the Herero: Kaiser Wilhelm
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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Vintage Publishing The Broken House Growing up under Hitler
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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during
Book SynopsisThe roll-call of wars down the centuries is paralleled by an equally extensive narrative of the theft, destruction, plundering, displacement and concealing of some of the greatest works of art during those conflicts - a story that is expertly told in this original publication.From the many wars of Classical Antiquity, through the military turning points and detours of the Fourth Crusade, the Thirty Years’ War, Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, the First and Second World Wars, and then onwards to the ongoing contemporary conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the history of art crime in times of war contains myriad fascinating and often little-known stories of the fate of humankind’s greatest works of art.Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during War charts the crucial milestones of art crimes spanning two thousand years. The works of art involved have fascinating stories to tell, as civilisation moves from a simple and brutal 'winner takes it all' attitude to the spoils of war, to contemporary understanding, and commitment to, the idea that our artistic heritage truly belongs to all humankind.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1. Rome; Chapter 2. The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople; Chapter 3. The Thirty Years’ War; Chapter 4. Napoleon; Chapter 5. The First World War; Chapter 6. The Second World War: Western Europe; Chapter 7. The Second World War: Eastern Europe; Chapter 8. Unravelling the Nazi Plunder: The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Officers; Chapter 9. The Yugoslav Wars; Chapter 10. Afghanistan and Iraq; Coda: Iraq and Syria; Notes; Further Reading; Index
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd War and War Crimes: The Military, Legitimacy and
Book SynopsisThe laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern warfare? What are the pressures on practitioners where an increasing emphasis on legality is the norm? Where do such boundaries lie in the contexts, means and methods of contemporary war? What is wrong, or right, in the view of military-political practitioners, in how those concepts relate to today's means and methods of war? These are among the issues addressed by James Gow in his compelling analysis of war and war crimes, which draws upon research conducted over many years with defence professionals from all over the world. Today more than ever, military strategy has to embrace justice and law, with both being deemed essential prerequisites for achieving success on the battlefield. And in a context where legitimacy defines success in warfare, but is a fragile and contested concept, no group has a greater interest in responding to these pressures and changes positively than the military. It is they who have the greatest need and desire to foster legitimacy in war by getting the politics-law-strategy nexus right, as well as developing a clear understanding of the relationship between war and war crimes, and calibrating where war becomes a war crime.Trade Review'This book should be read by all, political and military, who seek to use armed force to achieve their ends. With great clarity James Gow shows the relation of law to war and how this relationship has changed along with the way war is practised. As importantly, he shows what could happen to those practioners who fail to foster this relationship: failure and possibly prosecution.' * General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM *'A clever and fundamental book. Law and legitimacy have always been important to war, but Gow's book brilliantly demonstrates how central the issue not simply of right, but of wrong have become to modern war.' * Professor Jan Willem Honig, Swedish National Defence College *'War and War Crimes traces the evolution of international humanitarian law and the laws of war, and discusses the practical problems arising for military practitioners. It should be compulsory reading for any student of conflict - whether in IR, law, or sociology - but also for any responsible military officer and, as importantly, for the politicians taking the decisions.' * Beatrice Heuser, Professor and Chair of International Relations, Reading University, and author of The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present *'At the heart of this authoritative examination of the legitimacy of war and its conduct in the twenty-first century, James Gow refreshingly gives voice to the military judgment of professionals from around the world, as military officers themselves best understand the moral dilemmas they face and can best explain the context, at the strategic and tactical levels, which is so crucial to determining whether war crimes have been committed.' * Jeremy Jarvis CBE, Course Director, Royal College of Defence Studies, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Landscape of Silence: Sexual Violence Against
Book SynopsisWhy is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict, be it in conventional war, insurgencies or periods of civil and ethnic strife? Above all, why, throughout history, have victims, perpetrators and society as a whole refused to acknowledge this violation, and why do episodes of male-on-male rape and sexual abuse feature so rarely in accounts of war, be they official histories, eye-witness ac- counts or popular narratives? Is there more to this elision of memory than simply shame? Is there more to it than the victor's desire to violate the enemy body? Amalendu Misra's startlingly original re- search into male sexual violence explores the meaning and role of the male body prior to its abuse and how it is altered by violation in war- time. He examines the bio-political contexts of conflict in which primarily men and occasion- ally women sexually violate men; he details the inadequate legal safeguards for survivors of such events; and in unearthing and analysing an ignored aspect of war, he inquires whether such violence can ever be deterred.Trade Review'Sexual violence against boys and men in times of armed conflict has too often been ignored or relegated to a dismissive footnote. Misra's book changes everything. The effect of his vivid and forensic exploration of male-on-male sexual violence is stunning. This is a "must read" for anyone interested in rape, sexuality, violence and the vulnerable body.' -- Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and author of Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present;'Landscapes of Silence is excellent. Lucid and theoretically rich, and drawing on evidence that spans historical, cultural and geographical space, the book is the first extended analysis of the rape of men in war. An important contribution to the literature of critical security studies, Misra's book should be essential reading for any student or practitioner of war.' * Karin Fierke, Professor of International Relations, St Andrews University, and author of Political Self Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of
Book SynopsisThe assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, the high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks subsequently reawakened to their Armenian heritage, in the process reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering they endured to keep their stories secret. There was public debate about Armenian property confiscated by the Turkish state and books were published about the extermination of the minorities. The silence had been broken. After the First World War, Turkey forcibly erased the memory of the atrocities, and traces of Armenians, from their historic lands, to which the international community turned a blind eye. The price for this amnesia was, Cheterian argues, 'a century of genocide'.Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price a society must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities - like the Kurds today - nor have an open and democratic society without addressing its original sin: the Armenian Genocide, on which the Republic was founded.Trade Review'Cheterian's straightforward historical account does not shy away from a more disturbing aspect of the genocide's legacy where the quest for justice denied over generations spills over into the violence of reprisals, revenge, and terrorism' * LA Review of Books *‘Open Wounds provides a comprehensive insight into many relevant issues with regard to the consequences of denial for Armenians and other minorities such as the Kurds . . . an impressive account of how survivors and successive generations resisted erasure through Armenian historiography, memory politics and the composition and evolution of the diaspora’.'Cheterian's book offers one of the most complete tellings of the twisted, emotional story of the decimation of 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, during the fury of World War I and the story of the political struggle over the massacre in the century since it occurred.' * Foreign Affairs *'In this extraordinary and beautifully-written book, Cheterian tells us the little known story of the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. He reaches into the history and present-day politics of Armenians and Turks to tell a story and provide explanations that have been neglected or elided by others. There is no other text like this.' * Ronald G. Suny, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History, University of Chicago and former chairman of the Society for Armenian Studies *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Rebel Law: Insurgents, Courts and Justice in
Book SynopsisIn most societies, courts are where the rubber of government meets the road of the people. If a state cannot settle disputes and ensure that its decisions are carried out, for practical purposes it is no longer in charge. This is why successful rebels put courts and justice at the top of their agendas. Rebel Law examines this key weapon in the armory of insurgent groups, ranging from the Ireland of the 1920s, where the IRA sapped British power using 'Republican Tribunals' to today's 'Caliphate of Law' -- the Islamic State, by way of Algeria in the 1950s and the Afghan Taliban. Frank Ledwidge tells how insurgent courts bleed legitimacy from government, decide cases and enforce judgments on the battlefield itself. Astute counterinsurgents, especially in 'ungoverned space,' can ensure that they retain the initiative. The book describes French, Turkish and British colonial 'judicial strategy' and contrasts their experience with the chaos of more recent 'stabilization operations' in Iraq and Afghanistan, drawing lessons for contemporary counterinsurgents. Rebel Law builds on his insights and shows that the courts themselves can be used as weapons for both sides in highly unconventional warfare.Trade Review'This erudite yet very readable book will introduce many readers to the concept of “lawfare” and how it has been waged around the globe.' 'Rebel Law: Insurgents, Courts and Justice in Modern Conflict ... is an intriguing, engaging and comprehensive account that is particularly compelling when discussing insurgent justice in the Muslim world, ... valuably diverging from the tendency to read such phenomena solely through the prism of extremism... Ledwidge's approach to insurgent justice in the Muslim world is compelling: he brings a much-needed comparative perspective that serves as an antidote to the tendency to read such phenomena only through the lens of extremist ideology.' -- LSE Review of Books'As a former justice advisor for the UK military mission in Afghanistan, Ledwidge brings a uniquely well-informed perspective to the issues of using legal processes to achieve military objectives by both insurgents and counterinsurgents at the operational and tactical level. He argues that the ability of insurgents to offer "fair" judicial process -- particularly dispute resolution -- has proved critical to successful state-building by insurgent groups. On the flipside, Ledwidge contends that counterinsurgency strategy must employ "legal pluralism" to develop an effective judicial strategy. Cogently written and forcefully argued, Rebel Law will be of interest to military professionals, legal scholars and policy makers alike.' * Montgomery McFate, Professor at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and author of Military Anthropology: Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire *'Frank Ledwidge builds a compelling case for the monopoly of justice in determining the outcome of insurgencies. Drawing upon years of experience and scholarship, Ledwidge convincingly argues that nowhere is the contest for control of a population, the delicate interplay between consent and coercion, expressed with greater impact than in the competing legal systems offered by insurgent and counter-insurgent.' * Edward Burke, Lecturer in Strategic Studies, The University of Portsmouth, Royal Air Force College Cranwell *'This book is an essential resource for scholars and practitioners concerned with the operation of legal systems during and after conflict. Frank Ledwidge offers a unique perspective on the complex interactions between state and insurgent judiciaries that is informed by years of fieldwork and service as a justice advisor in warscapes including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.' * Mara Revkin, Department of Political Science, Yale University *'In the literature on counterinsurgency no concepts are more frequently invoked or more poorly understood than legitimacy, justice, and law. Insurgencies win by out-governing the status quo power and the primary thrust of their strategy is nearly always the provision of alternative justice to populations hungry for better law. Frank Ledwidge's brilliant book plugs the gap in the literature commendably. It is indispensable reading.' * David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World, Department of War Studies, King's College London *'A ground-breaking picture of the role of law in (particularly, irregular) warfare: so-called lawfare. This highly readable study opens up a new vista in counterinsurgency and underlines the centrality therein of properly-delivered, culturally-specific justice. A fascinating tour de force that demands to be read by politicians and generals alike.' - * Mike Martin, author of An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict *'This study offers important insights into why Western assumptions about what constitute the bases for stable government are often not relevant for other areas of the world.' -- Robert A. Heineman, Emeritus Professor of Political Sciences, Alfred University, CHOICE
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality
Book SynopsisThis is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine and disease are usually designed. They are policies in war. In meetings or on mobile phones, political and military leaders decide that civilians are appropriate or inevitable targets. The principle that unarmed and innocent people should be protected in war is an ancient, precious but fragile idea. Today, the principle of civilian immunity is enshrined in modern international law and cherished by many. But, in practice, leaders in most wars reject the principle. Using detailed historical and contemporary examples, "Killing Civilians" looks at the many ways in which civilians suffer in wars and analyses the main anti-civilian ideologies which insist upon such suffering.It also exposes the very real ambiguity in much civilian identity which is used to justify extreme hostility. But this is also, above all, a book about why civilians should be protected. Throughout its pages, "Killing Civilians" argues for a morality of limited warfare in which tolerance, mercy and restraint are used to draw boundaries to violence. At the heart of the book are important new frameworks for understanding patterns of civilian suffering, ideologies of violence and strategies for promoting the protection of civilians. This is the first major treatment of the hard questions of civilian identity and protection in war for many years. Written by one of the humanitarian world's leading thinkers and former aid worker, it provides a unique and accessible text on the subject for professional and public readerships alike.Trade Review'This is a clear, impartial, honest work. It is scholarly yet free of jargon, compassionate yet not over-emotional, moral without being preachy, stuffed with facts and figures, yet brought alive by a myriad of vivid historical, contemporary and personal anecdotes. In short, it is very good.' * The Economist *''Subjective violence', a la Zizek, is too flimsy a name for what Hugo Slim documents in this study, skilfully weaving history and psychology together with a sense of contemporary mission. Slim cites shocking eyewitness reports of murder and torture of civilians from wars around the world, tallying the way in which killers come to kill, and the excuses that governments make for them. The question is: can we do anything about it? Slim sees that mere appeals to international law carry little persuasive power where it counts, and suggests that we recast the argument as one about unfairness and cowardice, with a positive appeal to mercy. As an attempt to unravel one corner of the tapestry of symbolic violence hung over the reality of war, it might be a start.' * The Guardian *'As Slim's very readable and instructive book makes clear, the conflicts of the last century have been marked by a spirit of complete indifference to the sufferings of civilians.' * Caroline Moorhead, The Literary Review *'An excellent book. ... I recommend it to the practitioner, political, humanitarian and military, and in equal measure to the general public in whose name they act.' * General Sir Rupert Smith, KCB, DSO, OBE, QGM, author, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World *
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Axis Occupation of Europe Then and Now
Book SynopsisWinston and Gail Ramsey This book focuses on the systems used by the Axis powers for the governance of the countries that they occupied during the Second World War. It would be easy to assume that the administration of each country was carried out on a somewhat ad hoc basis, but streams of detailed orders and decrees were enacted to cover all aspects of everyday life . . . from finance to crime. Dr Raphael Lemkin was a Polish émigré and the person who coined the term `genocide’ during his study of international law concerning crimes against humanity which he began in 1933 — the year that the Nazis assumed power in Germany. Dr Lemkin’s much-acclaimed work Axis Rule in Occupied Europe was published in 1944 and extracts from it now form the framework on which we have built this `then and now’ coverage of the occupation of Czechoslovakia, Memel, Albania, Danzig, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Monaco, the Channel Islands, Greece, Yugoslavia, the Baltic states, the Soviet Union, Romania, Italy and Hungary. Individual chapters also cover the most serious crimes committed by the occupier: the destruction of whole villages in Czechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands and Greece, and the genocidal acts carried out in Italy, Greece and Belgium, although nothing can equal the wholesale slaughter enacted in the Balkans and the USSR. It has been estimated that the Axis occupation of Europe cost between 20 and 25 million civilian lives, apart from the deaths of at least 16 million servicemen and women who paid the ultimate price in trying to put Europe back together again. It is a debt that can never be repaid. SIZE 12”×8½” 368 PAGES OVER 1,000 ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN 9 781870 067935 £39.95
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Resistance Books Voices against Putins war
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Desert Hearts Khojaly: A Play about Surviving
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Goodfellow Publishers Limited Thanatourism: Case Studies in Travel to the Dark
Book SynopsisThanatourism, or dark tourism, is an increasingly pervasive feature of the contemporary tourism landscape. Travel to have actual or symbolic ‘encounters with death’ is not a new phenomenon and is now one of the fastest growing areas for debate and research in the study of Tourism. Thanatourism is an important new overview of the growing field. It introduces more rigorous scholarship, new philosophical perspectives and a wealth of empirical material on the contemporary and historical consumption of death with case studies designed to stretch and challenge current discourse. Contexts presented in the book will include- • well known religious sites • battlefield locations • genocide camps •lesser known exhibition centres and a plague site. It takes a broad methodological approach and discusses both research and teaching approaches in thanatourism as well as acknowledging its emotive nature. It is an essential new resource for all those who research or teach in the area as well as for upper level students.Table of ContentsCh 1 Blogging the Dark Side of Travel: Consuming the Siege of Sarajevo (Tony Johnston) Ch 2 Urban Exploration: Attraction of decay and abandonment or a first step in tourism development? (Pascal Mandelartz) Ch 3 Site Management and Consuming Death: The attraction of death, disaster and the macabre (Peter Wiltshier) Ch 4 Goth Tourism: Sun, sea, sex and dark leisure? Insights into the tourist identity of the Gothic culture (Pascal Mandelartz) Ch 5 Deborah: Having a personal connection to what has been variously described as dark tourism, thanatourism, death tourism and macabre tourism (Tim Heap) Ch 6 Museums of Genocide: The tensions between authenticity and the original article (Geoff Shirt) Ch 7 ‘Don’t fear the reaper’: The value of understanding mortality in adventure tourism (Duncan Marson) Ch 8 Life after the Black Death: How dark tourism sheds light on history - a case study of Eyam’s success in creating a future from the past (John Philips) Ch 9 ‘Welcome to the Home of Auschwitz Tours’: The online marketing of genocide tourism (Tony Johnston, Francisco Tigre-Moura, Pascal Mandelartz) Ch 10 ‘Which part of this is on the exam?’ Journeys into darkness with school groups (John Heap) Conclusion (Pascal Mandelartz & Tony Johnston) Index
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Goodfellow Publishers Limited Thanatourism: Case Studies in Travel to the Dark
Book SynopsisThanatourism, or dark tourism, is an increasingly pervasive feature of the contemporary tourism landscape. Travel to have actual or symbolic ‘encounters with death’ is not a new phenomenon and is now one of the fastest growing areas for debate and research in the study of Tourism. Thanatourism is an important new overview of the growing field. It introduces more rigorous scholarship, new philosophical perspectives and a wealth of empirical material on the contemporary and historical consumption of death with case studies designed to stretch and challenge current discourse. Contexts presented in the book will include- • well known religious sites • battlefield locations • genocide camps •lesser known exhibition centres and a plague site. It takes a broad methodological approach and discusses both research and teaching approaches in thanatourism as well as acknowledging its emotive nature. It is an essential new resource for all those who research or teach in the area as well as for upper level students.Table of ContentsCh 1 Blogging the Dark Side of Travel: Consuming the Siege of Sarajevo (Tony Johnston) Ch 2 Urban Exploration: Attraction of decay and abandonment or a first step in tourism development? (Pascal Mandelartz) Ch 3 Site Management and Consuming Death: The attraction of death, disaster and the macabre (Peter Wiltshier) Ch 4 Goth Tourism: Sun, sea, sex and dark leisure? Insights into the tourist identity of the Gothic culture (Pascal Mandelartz) Ch 5 Deborah: Having a personal connection to what has been variously described as dark tourism, thanatourism, death tourism and macabre tourism (Tim Heap) Ch 6 Museums of Genocide: The tensions between authenticity and the original article (Geoff Shirt) Ch 7 ‘Don’t fear the reaper’: The value of understanding mortality in adventure tourism (Duncan Marson) Ch 8 Life after the Black Death: How dark tourism sheds light on history - a case study of Eyam’s success in creating a future from the past (John Philips) Ch 9 ‘Welcome to the Home of Auschwitz Tours’: The online marketing of genocide tourism (Tony Johnston, Francisco Tigre-Moura, Pascal Mandelartz) Ch 10 ‘Which part of this is on the exam?’ Journeys into darkness with school groups (John Heap) Conclusion (Pascal Mandelartz & Tony Johnston) Index
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Waterside Press Friendless Childhoods Explain War
Book SynopsisFriendless Childhoods Explain War uses the author's groundbreaking discoveries working with the UK's most dangerous offenders to cast an expert eye over international conflict. All such violence, he contends, is born of childhood experiences that lead to adult anger, grievance and revenge. From Toddler Thinking to Nursery Nightmares and Guff Disease the book lays bare prevailing thought on violent conflict - which should be avoided by building truth, trust and consent from an early age - not instilling seeds of hate that continue into adulthood. The author cites Mein Kampf, George Orwell, Shakespeare and his own professional records to show how negative experiences in childhood can lead to unspeakable adult acts of violence, even war. In a radical re-appraisal of the darkest side of human nature that no citizen or policymaker should ignore, he warns us that 'No-one is safe (or sane) unless we are all safe (or sane).'Trade Review'We are born loveable and peaceable as you say... But boy does that get screwed up along the way.'- Dr Cathy Wield, Author and Specialist Emergency Medicine Physician; 'A cracking read.'- Tim Newell, former Governor HM Prison Grendon; 'I've just finished your incredible book - bloomin 'eck!'- Erwin James, Guardian Correspondent; 'Original and authentic.'- Dave Marteau, former Head, HM Prisons Drug Addiction Service; 'Your work will certainly help many to eventually come out of their inner emotional prison ... to live freely and responsibly.'- Alice Miller, Therapist; 'What Bob achieved was magical, he helped so many...'- Charles Bronson; 'I can't recall coming across anything like these insights from any other doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, analyst, scientist, academic or philosopher.'- Dr Clive Sherlock, Consultant Psychiatrist, Adaptation Practice, Oxford; As featured in Inside Time (May 2023).Table of ContentsForeword by Martin Brunt; Preface; Toddlers Squabble, Adults Socialise; Don't Drop Bombs - Drop White Goods; Revenge Rots You; Retribution Rots Judges; Consent Empowers: But Bullying Others Saps You; Is War Disease Curable?; Clarity Cures; A-Smile-a-Day-Keeps-the-Doctor-Away; Endpiece; Appendices; Index.
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Monash University Publishing Aftermath: Genocide, Memory and History
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Common Notions Feminicide and Global Accumulation: Frontline
Book SynopsisFeminicide and Global Accumulation brings us to the frontlines of an international movement of Black, Indigenous, popular, and mestiza women’s organizations fighting against violence—interpersonal, state sanctioned, and economic—that is both endemic to the global economy and the contemporary devalued status of racialized women, trans, and gender non-conforming communities in the Global South. These struggles against racism, capitalism, and patriarchy show how crucially linked the land, water, and other resource extraction projects that criss-cross the planet are to devaluing labor and nature and how central Black and Indigeneous women and trans leadership is to its resistance. The book is based on the first ever International Forum on Feminicide among ethnicized and racialized groups—which brought together activists and researchers from Colombia, Guatemala, Italy, Brazil, Iran, Guinea Bissau, Bolivia, Canada, the U.S., Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, among other countries in the world to represent different social movements and share concrete stories, memories, experiences and knowledge of their struggles against racism, capitalism and patriarchy. Feminicide and Global Accumulation reflects, in a collective fabric, the communitarian and enraged struggles of women, trans, and gender non-conforming communities who commit themselves to the transformation of their communities by directly challenging the murder and assassination of women and violence in all its forms. Trade Review"Theorizing feminicide as the key epistemic violence at the heart of patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist relations of rule, this powerful text documents Black, Brown, and Indigenous trans and cis women’s ongoing resistance and insurgent dreams of bodily integrity and freedom. Weaving together memories, poetry, stories, analysis, art, and activist praxis, Feminicide and Global Accumulation charts a new and irresistible future for anticapitalist feminist struggle. A book that belongs on the bookshelves of all progressive, left, decolonial scholar-activists.”—Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity"Feminicide and Global Accumulation tells stories of women reclaiming their histories, their dreams, their lives, and their bodies. It is a view from the ground up of the limitless greed of global corporations who want the last farm, the last seed, and the last mineral. Most importantly, it shows how violence against the Earth and violence against women are interconnected, and how feminicide and ecocide are intrinsic to the structures of global accumulation. Transforming the pain of feminicide into a fight for justice, women are showing how we can create new economies from the ground up, putting people and planet at the center to create buen vivir, the good life for all.”—Vandana Shiva, author of Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development and Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace"Drawing on concrete experiences and processes, Feminicide and Global Accumulation explains why feminicide is a political category. It shows why social movements are the ones that have made feminicide into a term for naming patriarchal violence in relation to the capitalist and colonial system as a machine of exploitation and cruelty over certain bodies and territories; why struggles have installed the term in the media and in legal classifications at the same time as they use it to denounce patriarchal justice and counter-insurgent strategies. Speaking of feminicide and transfeminicide in relation to global processes of accumulation, as Feminicide and Global Accumulation proposes, makes it possible both to grieve and to refuse its normalization, to create a systematic account of how violence explodes and extracts collective wealth, as well as to connect sexual violence to histories of conquest and genocide. Feminicide and Global Accumulation arises from a collective encounter in Colombia in 2016 that has been vital for conceptualizing and sharing experiences from voices across Abya Yala, of Black, Indigenous, Afro-descendant and Afro-Indigenous women, and non-heteronormative bodies. Thus it is a book that is heard and written in many tongues. It is theory produced in the thickness of a poem, concepts woven into conversation, lines of argument that echo inherited histories, philosophies that carry memories. The effort of its translation and publication in English does justice to the task of introducing a vocabulary that emerges from the struggles of body-territories in their untiring strategies of re-existence.”—Verónica Gago, author of Feminist International: How to Change Everything“Feminicide and Global Accumulation is a timely and necessary book on one of the most urgent issues facing trans and cis women globally. Centering the voices of Black and Indigenous women, this collection presents rare and much needed insight into the ways that racial capitalism and heterosexism exacerbate the politics of violence against women transnationally. From Colombia to Guinea-Bissau, these reflections dialogically, poetically and passionately demonstrate why Black and Indigenous women matter and why we must do everything in our power to stop racialized gender violence now.”—Christen A. Smith, author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil"Feminicide and Global Accumulation is a searing, unflinching indictment and analysis of gender-based violence and its embeddedness in extant structures of colonialism, modern patriarchy, racism, and capital accumulation. In their own riveting words and voices, Black, Afro-descendant, trans, and Indigenous women, activists, and researchers from across the Americas and the Global South offer stories and theories of the living experiences and memories of the racist, feminicidal violence they and their communities have endured and resisted, and never forgotten, despite the imposed silence of dominant histories. Through them we see the monstrous and intimate scales of the punitive powers women face. But we also see the enormous powers women themselves wield—powers of rebellion, resistance, and re-existence—which are the radical capacities for transformation we can put our hopes in. Harrowing and heartening, moving, humbling, and inspiriting, these are powerful and empowering calls for collective resistance and joy, and renewed life-making against the pedagogies of cruelty directed against the truth of women’s rebellion. This book is more than a glimpse of what it will take to remake the world. It shows us that those who now defend life, land, culture, and community are who will lead us into a different future."—Neferti X. M. Tadiar, author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization“Feminicide and Global Accumulation is a book of the heart and mind, of spirit and memory, and of truth and resistance. By amplifying the voices of Black, Indigenous and women of color living on the frontlines of colonialism and imperialism, this book offers an alarming exposition of the horrors and terrain of contemporary racialized, capitalist accumulation and dispossession—who it targets, under what historical conditions, and the staggering and multiple forms of patriarchal violence necessary for its reproduction. The narratives move through past, present, and future—drawing on ancestral wisdom of place, speaking to the everyday political interventions of feminist freedom fighters in the here and now, and ultimately shaping future feminist resistors rising up from the earth and demanding change. There is no hiding from the haunting accounts of colonial, capitalist violence courageously shared in these pages, or the questions about international solidarity that float to the surface as you read. The transformative power, analytic precision, and deep and uncompromising indictment of our current world captured in the book’s pages—and showcased in such painful and beautiful ways— is what we desperately need to think with, to teach, to understand, and to mobilize for collective liberation across the globe. Reading it is like standing on the precipice of change.”—Jaskiran Dhillon, author of Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization and the Politics of Intervention and Associate Professor of Global Studies, The New SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Colectivos Otras negras… y¡Feministas! Introduction Silvia Federici, Liz Mason-Deese, Susana Draper Chapter 1: Horizon of Reflection: Context and conceptualization of femicide Evoking our ancestors: Homage to our maroon heritageAsociación Casa Cultural El Chontaduro Victims of development, Afro-urban communities and dynamics of re-existence in BuenaventuraDanelly Estupiñán Valencia Chapter 2: Pedagogies of cruelty Gender and violence in the apocalyptic phase of capital: New reflections in light of the historical transformations of our time. Rita Segato The female body and the territorial bodyAlejandra Rangel and Valentina García; Clemencia Fory and Catherine Loboa; María Mercedes Campo and Betty Ruth Lozano The Uncertainty of femicides in transwomen: Approaches to transgenocides in racialized womenAlejandra Rangel Oliveros and Valentina García Marín Mobilization of Black women for the care of life and the ancestral territories of the north of CaucaClemencia Fory Banguero and Katherine Loboa Pumpkin, squash, each for her homeMaría Mercedes Campo, Colectivos Otras negras… y¡Feministas! and Sentipensar Afrodiaspórico Conquest of territories and subjectivitiesBetty Ruth Lozano, Colectivos Otras negras… y¡Feministas! Sexual violence in the genocide against the Mayan People of GuatemalaAura Cumes Violence, women, accumulation and racism: Canada and colonialism to ColombiaSheila Gruner Chapter 3: A Re-inventory of Pedagogies Memories of violence: Women, resistance and identity construction in Guinea Bissau Patricia Godinho Gomes Strategies for “re-existence” among violence (National Panel)Blanca Astrid Secué and Isaura Sauce; Vicenta Moreno and Ofir Muñoz and Elba Mercedes Palacios Córdoba Transforming the pain of femicide into a fight for justiceHelen Álvarez Women facing the violence of imperialism and fundamentalism in the Middle EastShahrzad Mojab Chapter 4: Strategies to face femicide Globalization, capital accumulation and violence against women: An international and historical perspectiveSilvia Federici Experiences and difficulties in accessing and demanding rights (National panel)Natalia Ocoró, Danny Ramírez and Alejandra Cárdenas Difficulties and impossibilities of access to justice by Black women in Colombia. Natalia Ocoró Grajales, Colectivos Otras negras… y¡Feministas! Perspective of femicides in BuenaventuraDanny Ramírez, activist of the National Conference of Afro-Colombian Organizations (CNOA) Obstacles to accessing justice in ColombiaMaría Alejandra Cárdenas, Legal Director of Women's Link Worldwide Chapter 5: Working tables between women International cooperation, violence against women, and neocolonization processes Organizations and social movements: facing or reproducing violence against women Configuration of femicides from the urban in an ethnic perspective: processes of impoverishment, exile and domestic service Peace process, post-Agreement and reparation to women and their racialized ethnic communities “Reexistence” and transitions towards good living: Women's struggle for a different peace from Afro-Ubuntuism in the diaspora Appendix Cultural House Song El Chontaduro Alabao to mining. COCOMACIA Gender Commission Declaration of the International Forum on Feminicides in Ethnic-Racialized Groups: Murder of women and global accumulation. (Buenaventura, Colombia. April 25–28, 2016)
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Robert D. Reed Publishers INVISIBLE: Surviving the Cambodian Genocide: The
Book Synopsis"The challenge was not just to survive, but to survive without losing our humanity." ~ Mac and Simone Leng The Cambodian Genocide claimed the lives of an estimated two million people - more than one-fourth of the total Cambodian population. Under the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, cities were evacuated and the population dispersed and forced into labor camps, where scores died of starvation, malnutrition, and disease. Pol Pot targeted for extermination certain minorities, the educated, and all those who had any connection with the former regime. Cambodia was to return to the "Year Zero," a pre-history - where no hint of Western influence would exist. Because Mac Leng was a former school principal and an army intelligence officer under the Lon Nol regime, he had a double target on his back. Mac and Simone Leng survived almost unendurable conditions for three years, eight months, and twenty days. This is their heartrending story of resilience, courage, and the power of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable terror. INVISIBLE: Surviving the Cambodian Genocide is a Cambodian couple's moving, personal, and straightforward story of living through one of the major disasters of the twentieth century. Millions of the Cambodian survivors of the 1975-1979 genocide have their own heart-rending accounts of what happened to them, packed like this book with dramatic, tragic events, individually experienced but in many respects similar because of the nature, ambition, and power of the Pol Pot regime. Surprisingly few of their accounts have appeared in English. This is a valuable addition to what we know. ~ Ben Kiernan, author of H ow Pol Pot Came to Power and T he Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge , 1975-1979, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies, Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1994-2015), Yale University A family swept up in the Cambodian genocide describes their experiences in a matter-of-fact tone that only heightens the sense of horror. An indispensable tale of human depravity and human endurance . ~ Ambassador Roger N. Harrison, Former U.S. Ambassador to JordanTHE IMPORTANCE OF INVISIBLE : INVISIBLE is a powerful story of survival against overwhelming odds during the nightmare years of the Cambodian Genocide. Very few first-person accounts of survival of the Cambodian Genocide exist, as most educated Cambodians were exterminated. The story of the survivors is framed in an account of the context of the Cambodian Genocide - how the murderous regime of Pol Pot came to power. Horrifying details of actual conditions during the Genocide are presented. Simultaneously, the book presents an uplifting message of the importance of humanity during even the most perilous of times. Love for family is a strong theme. The book fills a gap in the literature on the Cambodian Genocide, which is not well understood by most. The book is appropriate as required reading in any university course on genocide and human rights or in high school curricula. The book is suspenseful as the reader follows the journey of the Leng family from the killing fields to freedom. (Mac Leng worked on the film, The Killing Fields, as a consultant after he moved to the United States.) The book has implicit commentary on the important role of immigrants in the United States and the follies of U.S. foreign policy during the Viet Nam War era.Trade ReviewThis is a valuable addition to what we know. -- Ben Kiernan, author of How Pol Pot Came to Power and The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, A Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies, Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1994-2015), Yale UniversityA family swept up in the Cambodian genocide describes their experiences in a matter-of-fact tone that only heightens the sense of horror. An indispensable tale of human depravity and human endurance. -- Ambassador Roger N. Harrison, Former U.S.
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West Virginia University Press Red Harvests: Agrarian Capitalism and Genocide in Democratic Kampuchea
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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West Virginia University Press Red Harvests: Agrarian Capitalism and Genocide in
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
£23.96
Jewishgen.Inc Memorial Book of Kamenets Litovsk, Zastavye, and
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Rutgers University Press Reluctant Interveners: America's Failed Responses
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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Rutgers University Press Reluctant Interveners: America's Failed Responses
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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Rutgers University Press Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics
Book SynopsisActs of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina—a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976–1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Although the struggle against impunity seems inevitably incomplete, Argentines have created possibilities for repair through cultural memory, yielding spaces for transformation and agency critical to personal and political recovery. Trade Review"Acts of Repair compellingly emphasizes the value of narrative and testimony, using an ethnographic approach that is fine-grained and personal, dialogic and lyrical. This intimate book creates a nuanced frame for understanding immigrants, anti-Semitism, political culture, and memory practices, in Argentina and beyond." -- Ellen Moodie * coeditor of Central America in the New Millennium: Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy *"A masterful storylistener and storyteller, Natasha Zaretsky has written a heart-opening book that navigates the liminal spaces between silence and speech, erasure and memory, healing and trauma. The voices of her interlocutors sing and cry and are unforgettable. A stunning contribution to Latin American Jewish studies, as well as a beautiful enactment of the new soul-deep ethnography of the twenty-first century, this is a book that offers hope for humanity in fraught times." -- Ruth Behar * author of Letters from Cuba and An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, and Victor Haim Per *"Acts of Repair presents a gripping account of a diversity of memorial sites and practices that emerged in Argentina in response to multilayered traumatic experiences of extreme political violence. Drawing on her ethnographic observations, in-depth personal interviews, and public testimonies, Zaretesky weaves personal voices into her insightful and sensitive study of the power of memory work to lead from political protest and demands for justice to human-rights trials and open venues for individual and collective processes of recovery. Acts of Repair will be of major interest to anyone interested in the comparative study of trauma, memory, human rights, and the intergenerational impact of genocide and terrorism." -- Yael Zerubavel * author of Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition *"Alumni Books: New titles from Dartmouth writers (November/December 2020)" round-uphttps://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/alumni-books-november-december-2020 * Dartmouth Alumni Magazine *"Drawing on anthropological work started at Princeton, Natasha Zaretsky *08 explores the everyday lives of people coping with political violence in Argentina. Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers University Press) investigates how cultures exist with societal trauma and injustice, and how these wrongs might be repaired." * Princeton Alumni Weekly *"New Books Network: New Books in Genocide Studies" interview with Natasha Zaretsky * New Books Network: New Books in Genocide Studies *"At the heart of Acts of Repair are the Argentine people who let Zaretsky into their lives and told her their stories. Despite the trauma that they have endured, they have devoted their lives to sharing their experiences, out of a profound sense of obligation to their fellow survivors, victims, and future generations of Argentines." * Global Americans *"Acts of Repair offers a broader canvas by situating the narrative within the larger history of European immigration to Argentina. That history, as illustrated in the book, created a national setting unlike any other in the world, as twentieth-century Argentina became a refuge for Jews fleeing the rise of Nazism and the aftermath of the Holocaust, as well as for Nazi officials, such as Adolf Eichmann, fleeing prosecution in Europe." -- Omar G. Encarnacion * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsContents Chronology Introduction: Topographies of Violence 1 El Vacío: Trauma, Narrative, and the Boundaries of Coherence 2 Dialogic Memory and the Uneven Terrain of Justice 3 Disruption and Agency in the Public Sphere 4 Sites of Memory, Erasure, and Belonging 5 Nunca Más and the Intersections of Genocide, Loss, and Survival 6 On the Limits of Witnessing, On the Boundaries of Time Conclusion: The Liminality of Repair Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics
Book SynopsisActs of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina—a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976–1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Although the struggle against impunity seems inevitably incomplete, Argentines have created possibilities for repair through cultural memory, yielding spaces for transformation and agency critical to personal and political recovery. Trade Review"Acts of Repair compellingly emphasizes the value of narrative and testimony, using an ethnographic approach that is fine-grained and personal, dialogic and lyrical. This intimate book creates a nuanced frame for understanding immigrants, anti-Semitism, political culture, and memory practices, in Argentina and beyond." -- Ellen Moodie * coeditor of Central America in the New Millennium: Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy *"A masterful storylistener and storyteller, Natasha Zaretsky has written a heart-opening book that navigates the liminal spaces between silence and speech, erasure and memory, healing and trauma. The voices of her interlocutors sing and cry and are unforgettable. A stunning contribution to Latin American Jewish studies, as well as a beautiful enactment of the new soul-deep ethnography of the twenty-first century, this is a book that offers hope for humanity in fraught times." -- Ruth Behar * author of Letters from Cuba and An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, and Victor Haim Per *"Acts of Repair presents a gripping account of a diversity of memorial sites and practices that emerged in Argentina in response to multilayered traumatic experiences of extreme political violence. Drawing on her ethnographic observations, in-depth personal interviews, and public testimonies, Zaretesky weaves personal voices into her insightful and sensitive study of the power of memory work to lead from political protest and demands for justice to human-rights trials and open venues for individual and collective processes of recovery. Acts of Repair will be of major interest to anyone interested in the comparative study of trauma, memory, human rights, and the intergenerational impact of genocide and terrorism." -- Yael Zerubavel * author of Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition *"Alumni Books: New titles from Dartmouth writers (November/December 2020)" round-uphttps://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/alumni-books-november-december-2020 * Dartmouth Alumni Magazine *"Drawing on anthropological work started at Princeton, Natasha Zaretsky *08 explores the everyday lives of people coping with political violence in Argentina. Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers University Press) investigates how cultures exist with societal trauma and injustice, and how these wrongs might be repaired." * Princeton Alumni Weekly *"New Books Network: New Books in Genocide Studies" interview with Natasha Zaretsky * New Books Network: New Books in Genocide Studies *"At the heart of Acts of Repair are the Argentine people who let Zaretsky into their lives and told her their stories. Despite the trauma that they have endured, they have devoted their lives to sharing their experiences, out of a profound sense of obligation to their fellow survivors, victims, and future generations of Argentines." * Global Americans *"Acts of Repair offers a broader canvas by situating the narrative within the larger history of European immigration to Argentina. That history, as illustrated in the book, created a national setting unlike any other in the world, as twentieth-century Argentina became a refuge for Jews fleeing the rise of Nazism and the aftermath of the Holocaust, as well as for Nazi officials, such as Adolf Eichmann, fleeing prosecution in Europe." -- Omar G. Encarnacion * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsContents Chronology Introduction: Topographies of Violence 1 El Vacío: Trauma, Narrative, and the Boundaries of Coherence 2 Dialogic Memory and the Uneven Terrain of Justice 3 Disruption and Agency in the Public Sphere 4 Sites of Memory, Erasure, and Belonging 5 Nunca Más and the Intersections of Genocide, Loss, and Survival 6 On the Limits of Witnessing, On the Boundaries of Time Conclusion: The Liminality of Repair Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Calling Memory into Place
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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Rutgers University Press The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide
Book SynopsisWhy do people participate in genocide? The Complexity of Evil responds to this fundamental question by drawing on political science, sociology, criminology, anthropology, social psychology, and history to develop a model which can explain perpetration across various different cases. Focusing in particular on the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, The Complexity of Evil model draws on, systematically sorts, and causally orders a wealth of scholarly literature and supplements it with original field research data from interviews with former members of the Khmer Rouge. The model is systematic and abstract, as well as empirically grounded, providing a tool for understanding the micro-foundations of various cases of genocide. Ultimately this model highlights that the motivations for perpetrating genocide are both complex in their diversity and banal in their ordinariness and mundanity.Download the open access ebook here.Trade Review“Confronting the most challenging moral and historical questions in our field, The Complexity of Evil is exceptionally insightful and wise. Based upon extensive research and deep thought, this book is also remarkably accessible. Williams never loses sight of the human implications of his study, and has made a pathbreaking contribution.” -- John Cox * author of To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century *"The Complexity of Evil is a thorough and systematic exploration of genocide perpetration that that marries conceptual precision with a nuanced exploration of the Cambodian Genocide and other case studies. In perhaps his greatest contribution, Williams avoids reproducing conventional wisdom by thoughtfully exploring the complexities of perpetrator motivations in each context." -- Kjell Anderson * author of Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account *"This timely book—grounded in extensive qualitative fieldwork in Cambodia and comparison with the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide—offers rich insights for the fields of perpetrator studies and genocide studies. Williams’s complexity of evil model helps us better understand the personal circumstances through which people become perpetrators, while acknowledging the potential for them to simultaneously be victims, bystanders, rescuers, and so on." -- Erin Jessee * author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda: The Politics of History *“Confronting the most challenging moral and historical questions in our field, The Complexity of Evil is exceptionally insightful and wise. Based upon extensive research and deep thought, this book is also remarkably accessible. Williams never loses sight of the human implications of his study, and has made a pathbreaking contribution.” -- John Cox * author of To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century *"The Complexity of Evil is a thorough and systematic exploration of genocide perpetration that that marries conceptual precision with a nuanced exploration of the Cambodian Genocide and other case studies. In perhaps his greatest contribution, Williams avoids reproducing conventional wisdom by thoughtfully exploring the complexities of perpetrator motivations in each context." -- Kjell Anderson * author of Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account *"This timely book—grounded in extensive qualitative fieldwork in Cambodia and comparison with the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide—offers rich insights for the fields of perpetrator studies and genocide studies. Williams’s complexity of evil model helps us better understand the personal circumstances through which people become perpetrators, while acknowledging the potential for them to simultaneously be victims, bystanders, rescuers, and so on." -- Erin Jessee * author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda: The Politics of History *Table of ContentsContents List of Abbreviations Introduction Vignette 1 Chandara: a fearful volunteer enters the tiger zone 1 The complexity of evil – introducing the model Vignette 2 Sokong: a coerced killer with a conscience 2 Motivations Vignette 3 Sokphary: a female unit leader with a sense of responsibility for her subordinates 3 Facilitative factors Vignette 4 Sopheak: an interrogator searching to unearth enemy strings 4 Contextual conditions Vignette 5 Sokha: a child guard the regime turned on 5 Diversity, complexity, scope – discussing the model and its empirical application Vignette 6 Ramy: a garment worker participating in the evacuation of Phnom Penh Conclusion Appendix: List of interviewees Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Korean Comfort Women : Military Brothels,
Book SynopsisArguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died, unable to survive the ordeal. Those survivors who came back home kept silent about their brutal experiences for about fifty years. In the late 1980s, the women’s movement in South Korea helped start the redress movement for the victims, encouraging many survivors to come forward to tell what happened to them. With these testimonies, the redress movement gained strong support from the UN, the United States, and other Western countries. Korean “Comfort Women” synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues “comfort women” faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women’s human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.Trade Review"This book provides the most complete account yet of the historical situation of Korean 'comfort women' and of current efforts to seek redress for the survivors. Drawing upon a vast trove of first-person evidence and displaying a rigorous commitment to factual evidence, the author creates an invaluable record of past war crimes and present-day activism." — Margaret D. Stetz, author of Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II "Korean “Comfort Women” comprehensively clarifies the role of international movements with historical accuracy and a sincere commitment to holding Japan responsible for its actions. Moreover, this book provides a detailed description of the histories and politics of the past and present as it asks readers how redress of the comfort women issue can be achieved from the perspectives of politics and justice."— MobilizationTable of ContentsAbbreviations Chronology Introduction: Background Information about Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and the Redress Movement for the Victims 1 Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks 2 Enough Information, but the Issue Was Buried for Half a Century 3 The Emergence of the “Comfort Women” Issue and Victims’ Breaking Silence 4 General Information about the “Comfort Women” System 5 Forced Mobilization of “Comfort Women” 6 Payments of Fees and Affectionate Relationships 7 Sexual Exploitation, Violence, and Threats at “Comfort Stations” 8 The Perils of Korean “Comfort Women’s” Homecoming Trips 9 Korean “Comfort Women’s” Lives in Korea and China 10 Progress of the Redress Movement in Korea 11 Divided Responses to the Redress Movement in Japan 12 Responses to the Redress Movement in the United States Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£37.60
Rutgers University Press Korean Comfort Women : Military Brothels,
Book SynopsisArguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died, unable to survive the ordeal. Those survivors who came back home kept silent about their brutal experiences for about fifty years. In the late 1980s, the women’s movement in South Korea helped start the redress movement for the victims, encouraging many survivors to come forward to tell what happened to them. With these testimonies, the redress movement gained strong support from the UN, the United States, and other Western countries. Korean “Comfort Women” synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues “comfort women” faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women’s human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.Trade Review"This book provides the most complete account yet of the historical situation of Korean 'comfort women' and of current efforts to seek redress for the survivors. Drawing upon a vast trove of first-person evidence and displaying a rigorous commitment to factual evidence, the author creates an invaluable record of past war crimes and present-day activism." — Margaret D. Stetz, author of Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II "Korean “Comfort Women” comprehensively clarifies the role of international movements with historical accuracy and a sincere commitment to holding Japan responsible for its actions. Moreover, this book provides a detailed description of the histories and politics of the past and present as it asks readers how redress of the comfort women issue can be achieved from the perspectives of politics and justice."— MobilizationTable of ContentsAbbreviations Chronology Introduction: Background Information about Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and the Redress Movement for the Victims 1 Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks 2 Enough Information, but the Issue Was Buried for Half a Century 3 The Emergence of the “Comfort Women” Issue and Victims’ Breaking Silence 4 General Information about the “Comfort Women” System 5 Forced Mobilization of “Comfort Women” 6 Payments of Fees and Affectionate Relationships 7 Sexual Exploitation, Violence, and Threats at “Comfort Stations” 8 The Perils of Korean “Comfort Women’s” Homecoming Trips 9 Korean “Comfort Women’s” Lives in Korea and China 10 Progress of the Redress Movement in Korea 11 Divided Responses to the Redress Movement in Japan 12 Responses to the Redress Movement in the United States Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and
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
£37.60
Rutgers University Press Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and
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 *"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
£107.20
Rutgers University Press The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide
Book SynopsisBeginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948, and extending to the present day, the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, China, United Kingdom, and France have put forth great effort to ensure that they will not be implicated in the crime of genocide. If this were to fail, they have also ensured that holding any of them accountable for genocide will be practically impossible. By situating genocide prevention in a system of territorial jurisdiction; by excluding protection for political groups and acts constituting cultural genocide from the Genocide Convention; by controlling when genocide is meaningfully named at the Security Council; and by pointing the responsibility to protect in directions away from any of the P-5, they have achieved what can only be described as practical impunity for genocide. The Politics of Genocide is the first book to explicitly demonstrate how the permanent member nations have exploited the Genocide Convention to isolate themselves from the reach of the law, marking them as "outlaw states."Trade Review"In The Politics of Genocide, Jeffrey S. Bachman conducts an unsparing analysis of the United Nations (UN) Genocide Convention’s formulation in 1947-48 and subsequent selective application by the permanent members of the UN Security Council. Decrying the orchestrated 'culture of impunity for genocide,' this book is a necessary corrective to the view that the Genocide Convention has humanized world politics." -- Dirk Moses * author of The Problems of Genocide *A rigorous and revisionist study of how framings of genocide, and applications of the relevant international law, granted effective impunity to the world's most powerful state actors -- and still do. Bachman's book is readable and accessible. It serves as an excellent complement and counterweight to standard treatments of this vital subject. -- Adam Jones * author of Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Genocide and State Impunity 1. Territorializing Prevention of Genocide 2. Redefining the Crime of Genocide for Reasons of State 3. The ICJ as Enabler of State Impunity for Genocide 4. The P-5 and Discretionary Non-Application of the Genocide Convention 5. The Responsibility to Protect and P-5 Impunity Conclusion: The Persistent Outlaw, Perpetual Impunity, and the Field of Genocide StudiesAcknowledgments NotesBibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Resonant Violence: Affect, Memory, and Activism
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
£32.30
Rutgers University Press Resonant Violence: Affect, Memory, and Activism
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
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American
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
£28.90
Rutgers University Press Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American
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
£107.20
Daraja Press For The Love Of The Struggle
Book Synopsis
£21.59
