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‘Little Gunshots, but with the blaze of lightning’: Xavier Herbert, Visuality and Human Rights [PDF]
, 2017 Xavier Herbert published his bestseller Capricornia in 1938, following two periods spent in the Northern Territory. His next major work, Poor Fellow My Country (1975), was not published until thirty-seven years later, but was also set in the north during
Lydon, Jane
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, 2022 Abstract The introduction discusses the concept of atrocity crimes and its origins. It outlines its main definitional characteristics, distinguishes and briefly describes the three main constitutive categories of atrocity crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes), and discusses similarities and differences among the ...
Hola, Barbora +2 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Watching the Watchers: Enemy Combatants in the Internment Shadow [PDF]
, 2005 In the past, the government has avoided accountability for the atrocity of allowing the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Kang examines whether the federal judiciary is again shying away from its responsibilities of holding the other branches
Kang, Jerry
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
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Fossil modernity and climate atrocity
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsModern infrastructures, lifestyles, and thought patterns are deeply intertwined with fossil fuel consumption. Yet, this pervasive reliance drives unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in the deliberate and systematic infliction of large-scale
Gaspard Lemaire
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La representación del “horror nazi” en la prensa argentina
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2015 This article analyzes Argentine news coverage of Nazi crimes during the period of liberation of prisoners from concentration camps, when Allied troops discovered the “atrocities” that had been committed in them.
Malena Chinski
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Systemic evil and the international political imagination [PDF]
, 2016 In light of the persistence of discourses of atrocity in the post-Holocaust era, and with the resurgence of talk of evil that followed 11 September 2001, it is clear that the idea of evil still possesses a powerful hold upon the modern imagination.
Hayden, Patrick
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Bonding Images: Photography and Film as Acts of Perpetration
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018 Historical and contemporary cases of collective violence show an incremental use of photography and film to capture and disseminate violent acts. Recording cruelty during conflict seems to be a highly ritualised practice that urges the question what ...
Christophe Busch
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