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Innocence and Victimhood
Gender, Nation, and Women's Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Av Elissa Helms
Häftad, 2013
288 kr
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The 1992–95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina following the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia became notorious for “ethnic cleansing” and mass rapes targeting the Bosniac (Bosnian Muslim) population. Postwar social and political processes have continued to be dominated by competing nationalisms …
Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
Av Molly Todd
Häftad, 2010
340 kr
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During the civil war that wracked El Salvador from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the Salvadoran military tried to stamp out dissidence and insurgency through an aggressive campaign of crop-burning, kidnapping, rape, killing, torture, and gruesome bodily mutilations. Even as human rights …
Politics of Necessity
Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa
Av Elke Zuern
Häftad, 2011
340 kr
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Remaking Rwanda
State Building and Human Rights After Mass Violence
Häftad, 2011
288 kr
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In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda’s politics, economy, and society, and the country’s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to …
Archiving the Unspeakable
Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia
Häftad, 2014
340 kr
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Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years in the late 1970s. The regime’s brutality has come to be symbolized by the multitude of black-and-white mug shots of prisoners taken at the notorious …
From War to Genocide
Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994
Inbunden, 2015
935 kr
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In April 1994 Rwanda exploded in violence, with political, social, and economic divisions most visible along ethnic lines of the Hutu and Tutsi factions. The ensuing killings resulted in the deaths of as much as 20 percent of Rwanda’s population. André Guichaoua, who was present as the genocide …
From War to Genocide
Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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In April 1994 Rwanda exploded in violence, with political, social, and economic divisions most visible along ethnic lines of the Hutu and Tutsi factions. The ensuing killings resulted in the deaths of as much as 20 percent of Rwanda's population. André Guichaoua, who was present as the genocide …
Human Rights Paradox
Universality and Its Discontents
Av Steven J. Stern, Scott Straus
Häftad, 2014
246 kr
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Human rights are paradoxical. Advocates across the world invoke the idea that such rights belong to all people, no matter who or where they are. But since humans can only realize their rights in particular places, human rights are both always and never universal.The Human Rights Paradox is the …
Social Origins of Human Rights
Protesting Political Violence in Colombia’s Oil Capital, 1919–2010
Häftad, 2015
443 kr
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Human rights activism is often associated with international organizations that try to effect change in regional conflicts around the globe. In Barrancabermeja, Colombia, argues Luis van Isschot in The Social Origin of Human Rights, the struggle for rights has emerged more organically and locally, …
Historical Justice and Memory
Av Klaus Neumann, Janna Thompson
Häftad, 2015
456 kr
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Historical Justice and Memory highlights the global movement for historical justice—acknowledging and redressing historic wrongs—as one of the most significant moral and social developments of our times. Such historic wrongs include acts of genocide, slavery, systems of apartheid, the systematic …
Amending the Past
Europe's Holocaust Commissions and the Right to History
Inbunden, 2015
739 kr
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During the 1990s and early 2000s in Europe, more than fifty historical commissions were created to confront, discuss, and document the genocide of the Holocaust and to address some of its unresolved injustices.Amending the Past offers the first in-depth account of these commissions, examining the …
Lima Inquisition
The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru
Inbunden, 2015
739 kr
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The Holy Office of the Inquisition (a royal tribunal that addressed issues of heresy and offenses to morality) was established in Peru in 1570 and operated there until 1820. In this book, Ana E. Schaposchnik provides a deeply researched history of the Inquisition’s Lima Tribunal, focusing in …
Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling
Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina
Häftad, 2018
253 kr
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Argentina's repressive 197683 dictatorship, during which an estimated thirty-thousand people were ""disappeared,"" prompted the postauthoritarian administrations and human rights groups to encourage public exposure of past crimes and traumas. Truth commissions, trials, and other efforts have aimed …
Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
Seeking Justice After Genocide
Inbunden, 2016
761 kr
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After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert Ingelaere, based on his observation of two …
Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
Seeking Justice After Genocide
Häftad, 2018
251 kr
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After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert Ingelaere, based on his observation of two …
Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention
Inbunden, 2017
877 kr
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After the staggering horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, the United Nations resolved to prevent and punish the crime of genocide throughout the world. The resulting UN Genocide Convention treaty, however, was drafted, contested, and weakened in the midst of Cold War tensions and ideological …
Amending the Past
Europe's Holocaust Commissions and the Right to History
Häftad, 2017
246 kr
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During the 1990s and early 2000s in Europe, more than fifty historical commissions were created to confront, discuss, and document the genocide of the Holocaust and to address some of its unresolved injustices. Amending the Past offers the first in-depth account of these commissions, examining the …
Prisoner of Pinochet
My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp
Av Sergio Bitar
Inbunden, 2017
355 kr
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September 11, 1973: Chilean military forces under General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the elected government of President Salvador Allende, bombing the presidential palace with the president inside. Minister of Mining Sergio Bitar was forcibly detained along with other members of the Allende cabinet …
Conflicted Memory
Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru
Inbunden, 2018
935 kr
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What happens when concepts of ""truth,"" ""memory,"" and ""human rights"" are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of violence? Peru has moved from the 1980s90s conflict between its armed forces and Shining Path militants into an era of open democracy, transitional justice, and truth and …
Conflicted Memory
Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru
Häftad, 2020
253 kr
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What happens when concepts of "truth," "memory," and "human rights" are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of violence? Peru has moved from the 1980s-90s conflict between its armed forces and Shining Path militants into an era of open democracy, transitional justice, and truth and …
Wars Inside Chile's Barracks
Remembering Military Service Under Pinochet
Inbunden, 2017
935 kr
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From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370,000 young menmostly from impoverished backgroundswere conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto Pinochet's violent regime. Some were brutal enforcers, but many themselves endured physical and psychological abuse, survival and torture training, …
Wars Inside Chile's Barracks
Remembering Military Service Under Pinochet
Häftad, 2020
253 kr
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Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award (Social Sciences) of the Southern Cone Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association.From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370,000 young men―mostly from impoverished backgrounds―were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto Pinochet's violent …
Bread, Justice, and Liberty
Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile
Av Alison Bruey
Inbunden, 2018
935 kr
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In Santiago's urban shantytowns, a searing history of poverty and Chilean state violence have prompted grassroots resistance movements among the poor and working class from the 1940s to the present. Underscoring this complex continuity, Alison J. Bruey offers a compelling history of the struggle …
Bread, Justice, and Liberty
Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile
Av Alison Bruey
Häftad, 2020
253 kr
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Winner of the SECOLAS Alfred B. Thomas Book AwardNamed Best Social Science Book, LASA Southern Cone Studies SectionIn Santiago, Chile, poverty and state violence have often led to grassroots resistance movements among the poor and working class. Alison J. Bruey offers a compelling history of the …
Civil Obedience
Complicity and Complacency in Chile Since Pinochet
Inbunden, 2018
1043 kr
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Since the fall of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990, Chilean society has shied away from the subject of civilian complicity, preferring to pursue convictions of military perpetrators. But the torture, murders, deportations, and disappearances of tens of thousands of people in Chile …
Civil Obedience
Complicity and Complacency in Chile Since Pinochet
Häftad, 2020
283 kr
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Since the fall of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990, Chilean society has shied away from the subject of civilian complicity, preferring to pursue convictions of military perpetrators. But the torture, murders, deportations, and disappearances of tens of thousands of people in Chile …
Elusive Justice
Women, Land Rights, and Colombia's Transition to Peace
Inbunden, 2019
935 kr
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Fifty years of violence perpetrated by guerrillas, paramilitaries, and official armed forces in Colombia displaced more than six million people. In 2011, as part of a larger transitional justice process, the Colombian government approved a law that would restore land rights for those who lost their …
Buried Histories
The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia
Av John Roosa
Inbunden, 2020
935 kr
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In 1965-66, army-organized massacres claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of supporters of the Communist Party of Indonesia. Very few of these atrocities have been studied in any detail, and answers to basic questions remain unclear. What was the relationship between the army and civilian …
Buried Histories
The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia
Av John Roosa
Häftad, 2022
326 kr
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In 1965–66, army-organized massacres claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of supporters of the Communist Party of Indonesia. Very few of these atrocities have been studied in any detail, and answers to basic questions remain unclear. What was the relationship between the army and civilian …
Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa
Human Rights, Society, and the State
Inbunden, 2020
935 kr
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In recent decades, a more formalized and forceful shift has emerged in the legislative realm when it comes to gender and sexual justice in Africa. This rigorous, timely volume brings together leading and rising scholars across disciplines to evaluate these ideological struggles and reconsider the …
