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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Research on mediated suffering within social sciences: expert views on identifying a disciplinary home and research agenda [PDF]

, 2013
An emerging field of research within social sciences concerns itself with the issue of suffering. Following its growing (mediated) societal prevalence and impact in recent years, suffering has already spurred a rich and diverse body of work.
Joye, Stijn
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Institutions From Above and Voices From Below: A Comment on Challenges to Group-Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation [PDF]

, 2009
Fletcher explores how assumptions about justice have succeeded in establishing a new international consensus on necessary processes of rebuilding societies, some pitfalls of this approach, and recommendations for new directions for the field of ...
Fletcher, Laurel E.
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Distinction: Private Art Museums and Their Versatile Role for Elites' (Self)Legitimization Discourses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva, Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis   +2 more
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Fog of War: the role of fake news in initiating and prolonging conflict

Frontiers in Communication
Fake news in mainstream war reporting launders atrocity narratives from anonymous officials and ideologically invested sources into accepted public facts, thereby contributing to the initiation and prolongation of armed conflict in democratic societies ...
Johannes Scherling
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Hannah Arendt as a Theorist of International Criminal Law [PDF]

, 2011
This paper examines Hannah Arendt\u27s contributions as a theorist of international criminal law. It draws mostly on Eichmann in Jerusalem, particularly its epilogue, but also on Arendt\u27s correspondence, her writings from the 1940s on Jewish politics,
Luban, David
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jared F. Edgerton, Evelyn Gertz   +3 more
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The racist bodily imaginary: the image of the body-in-pieces in (post)apartheid culture [PDF]

, 2013
This paper outlines a reoccurring motif within the racist imaginary of (post)apartheid culture: the black body-in-pieces. This disturbing visual idiom is approached from three conceptual perspectives.
A Krog, A Latham, A Mbembe, B Massumi, B St Louis, C Hemmings, D Hook, D Hook, Derek Hook, EK Sedgwick, F Fanon, G Deleuze, G Deleuze, G Deleuze, G Marinovich, H Strauss, J Butler, J Lacan, L Blackman, M Featherstone, NS Ndebele, O Stuart, P Godwin, P Pigou, PT Clough, R Barthes, R Coleman, R Coleman, R Coleman, S Alaimo, S Hill, S Kilpatrick, S Sontag, S žižek, S žižek   +34 more
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