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The Atrocity of Representing Atrocity - Watching Kevin Carter's 'Struggling Girl'

Aesthetic Investigations, 2015
Taking Kevin Carter's famous photograph of a Sudanese 'Struggling Girl' as an example, this article shows by criticizing the work of photography scholar Ariella Azoulay who argues for an ethic, reparative spectatorship that focuses on the social ...
Merlijn Geurts
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The climate atrocity paradigm

Earth System Governance
Unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions threaten countless lives worldwide, yet conventional terminology such as “global warming” or “climate disruption” fail to capture the human suffering involved, whereas terms like “climate crisis” misleadingly ...
Gaspard Lemaire
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The enigma of caste atrocities

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023
The dominant narrative on caste today asserts that the people belonging to the Scheduled Castes or “Dalits” and Scheduled Tribes or “Tribals” face pervasive and disproportionately more violence.
Nihar Sashittal
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“Nature’s Revolt”: The River’s Reply in Ida Fink’s A Scrap of Time

Humanities, 2021
This article accounts for what language and memory are and are not capable of in literary depictions of the Holocaust. To read, analyze, or even write Holocaust narratives, readers must expect to encounter new forms of writing and expression.
Bridget Menard
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Atrocity Film

Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, 2021
What if the SS as the main Nazi organisation responsible for the Holocaust produced a secret film about the persecution and murder of the European Jews during World War II?
Fabian Schmidt, Alexander Oliver Zöller
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தேநீர் புதினம் காட்டும் சமூகம் / Society Portrayed in the Novel Theneer [PDF]

International Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies, 2022
‘Literature’ defines itself as the goal and expression of the spontaneous flow of thoughts to manifest the target audience. Literature is a platform to formulate high ambitions, ideologies, principles and philosophies of life for society.
திருமதி ப.யுவராணி / Mrs. P. Yuvarani, முனைவர் சா. சிவமணி / Dr S Sivamani   +1 more
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Evaluating the United Nation’s Agenda for Atrocity Prevention: Prospects for the International Regulation of Internal Security

Politics and Governance, 2015
In recent years the UN Secretary-General has promoted mass atrocity prevention as the priority agenda for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) at the UN, redirecting debates on R2P away from military interventionism towards improved state capacity to ...
Cecilia Jacob
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“Only Time Will Tell”: The Underexplored Impacts of Lead Poisoning and COVID-19 on Pre-Existing ACEs in New York

Youth, 2023
The peak of the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) in New York City significantly impacted communities that lived in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
Lorenz S. Neuwirth, Kerry Whigham
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GQ9 Is Ignoring Hunger Comparable with Ignoring Genocide? Review of Eyal Mayroz’s Reluctant Interveners

World Nutrition, 2019
Eyal Mayroz’s book, Reluctant Interveners, focuses on how public opinion shapes and is shaped by the US government’s response to genocide, a type of mass atrocity. Mass atrocity is defined here as widespread avoidable harm.
George Kent
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Triggers of Mass Atrocities

Politics and Governance, 2015
The concept of “triggers” enjoys wide usage in the atrocity prevention policymaking community. However, the concept has received limited academic analysis.
Scott Straus
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