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Concealing Atrocity Crimes with Official Secrecy: “National Security” as a Threat to International Security

State Crime
This article uses a comparative history method to examine criminal state secrecy in closed authoritarian societies and open democratic societies. Focusing on how government secrecy is employed to conceal atrocity crimes, this article compares the legal ...
Christopher Elliott
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
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Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina, Kynan Gentry, Kirsten Martinus   +2 more
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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Progress and atrocity: the dual psychiatric legacy of Vienna's Steinhof Hospital. [PDF]

BJPsych Bull, 2023
Smith A, Voren RV, Liebrenz M.
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Beyond the Dichotomy of Success and Failure: Making Activism Meaningful in South Korea and France

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT First deployed in the 1970s, prefiguration has recently gained traction among ethnographers of political action as a descriptor for activist practices that foreground participatory democracy, horizontality, and direct action, as seen in social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Notably, ethnographers have come to understand these prefigurative‐
Guilherme Fians, Sera Yeong Seo Park
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
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Media and Ambivalence| “Destroyer of Worlds”: Individual Narratives, Mass Atrocity, and (Moral) Ambivalence

International Journal of Communication
This article addresses the confluence of two events in the summer of 2023: the release of Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer and the Biden administration’s decision to sanction the use of cluster munitions in the Ukraine War, via the lens
Liz Hallgren
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Critical Genocide Studies and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2019
Critical genocide studies has emerged as an important strand of scholarship devoted to interrogating the core assumptions of the field of genocide studies.
Ernesto Verdeja
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