Telling Histories Of Violence Without Borders
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Telling Histories Of Violence Without Borders
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Author : Max Bergholz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-20
Telling Histories Of Violence Without Borders written by Max Bergholz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-20 with categories.
It might seem curious that the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize, for the "best book that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole" was awarded to Max Bergholz's "Violence as a Generative Force" (Cornell University Press), which focuses on Kulen Vakuf, a region in Croatia, over a few months in 1941, when neighbors who had generally lived peacefully in multi-ethnic communities suddenly perpetrated a series of horrific massacres and reprisals, claiming the lives of hundreds of men, women, and children. Readers quickly discover, however, the profound implications of this study for how we understand, even how we talk about, instances of mass violence against civilians, both in Europe and globally. By deftly analyzing the escalating cycle of violence in Kulen Vakuf, Bergholz arrives at an unsettling but important conclusion. He demonstrates that ideological indoctrination, deep ethnic cleavages, and long-nurtured hatreds often played little role in motivating those who perpetrated killing locally. Instead, violence itself recast social relations among neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, shearing multi-ethnic communities and steeling previously malleable ethnic identities. This book, "Telling Histories of Violence without Borders," examines the more portable findings of "Violence as a Generative Force," including its methodological orientations, which can be useful to historians and other scholars who study violence in very different contexts, and not only in Europe. This book reflects on three issues that arose during Berholz's research and writing, all of which are rooted in the notion of crossing borders: first, the need to surmount disciplinary provincialism when studying violence; second, the importance of establishing a sense of place when writing about violence; and third, the challenge of practicing historical empathy when telling histories of violence. This book emerged from the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize Lecture at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies (Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame).
Violence Without Borders
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Author : Yakin Erturk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-06-15
Violence Without Borders written by Yakin Erturk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-15 with categories.
Violence As A Generative Force
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Author : Max Bergholz
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-29
Violence As A Generative Force written by Max Bergholz and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-29 with History categories.
During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today’s border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy—in which victims were butchered with farm tools, drowned in rivers, and thrown into deep vertical caves—was the culmination of a chain of local massacres that began earlier in the summer. In Violence as a Generative Force, Max Bergholz tells the story of the sudden and perplexing descent of this once peaceful multiethnic community into extreme violence. This deeply researched microhistory provides provocative insights to questions of global significance: What causes intercommunal violence? How does such violence between neighbors affect their identities and relations? Contrary to a widely held view that sees nationalism leading to violence, Bergholz reveals how the upheavals wrought by local killing actually created dramatically new perceptions of ethnicity—of oneself, supposed "brothers," and those perceived as "others." As a consequence, the violence forged new communities, new forms and configurations of power, and new practices of nationalism. The history of this community was marked by an unexpected explosion of locally executed violence by the few, which functioned as a generative force in transforming the identities, relations, and lives of the many. The story of this largely unknown Balkan community in 1941 provides a powerful means through which to rethink fundamental assumptions about the interrelationships among ethnicity, nationalism, and violence, both during World War II and more broadly throughout the world.
Mercy Without Borders
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Author : Mark Zwick
language : en
Publisher: Paulist Press
Release Date : 2010
Mercy Without Borders written by Mark Zwick and has been published by Paulist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
After living in El Salvador and witnessing the cost of the political violence and economic hardship there, Mark and Louise Zwick founded Casa Juan Diego. Mercy Without Borders tells the story of the beginnings of the Catholic Worker in Houston, a city that has become a destination for waves of refugees from Mexico and Central America. Over the years, they have received the poor, the weary, and the destitute, seeing only the face of Christ regardless of immigration status. In addition to sharing their stories of Casa Juan Diego and many of its guests, the Zwicks analyze some of the causes of the economic imbalances that result in destitution south of the U.S. border, in countries where people toil in factories for little or nothing, only to see the fruits of their labor shipped to the affluent north. Why would these victims of injustice not seek a better life for themselves and their children? Book jacket.
Caribbean Without Borders
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Author : Gabriel J. Jiménez Fuentes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-04
Caribbean Without Borders written by Gabriel J. Jiménez Fuentes and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
One of the most salient issues in Caribbean studies is the region's linguistic and cultural fragmentation as a result of European colonization. More than five centuries later, the islands and American countries whose shores touch the Caribbean Sea still echo such maladies. The title of this book is a call towards unity, a unity that, in the words of Barbadian poet, historian and critic Kamau Brathwaite, "is submarine." In the past, nations' borders were established based on the distance a cannon ball was able to cover when fired from land out to sea. It is time to go beyond the cannon ball distances out into uncharted territories, beyond the canon, and, thus, beyond the cannon's range.This book features a selection of essays presented at the fifth annual Caribbean Without Borders conference at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. It critically delves into the fields of linguistics, history, literature, philosophy, politics, feminism, cultural studies, music, film, and art, among many others, as a means to re-visit, re-view, re-envision, re-read, re-interpret, and thus re-create a Caribbean aesthetics that looks to submarine unity, a unity that defies spatial, temporal, and social borders. The book conveys the limitless nature of the Caribbean and its rich culture, making it an appealing transdisciplinary source for a multidisciplinary academic audience.
Crisis In The Red Zone
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Author : Richard Preston
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-07-23
Crisis In The Red Zone written by Richard Preston and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-23 with Science categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic “Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, now a National Geographic original miniseries . . . This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly fell ill and died. The ensuing global drama activated health professionals in North America, Europe, and Africa in a desperate race against time to contain the viral wildfire. By the end—as the virus mutated into its deadliest form, and spread farther and faster than ever before—30,000 people would be infected, and the dead would be spread across eight countries on three continents. In this taut and suspenseful medical drama, Richard Preston deeply chronicles the pandemic, in which we saw for the first time the specter of Ebola jumping continents, crossing the Atlantic, and infecting people in America. Rich in characters and conflict—physical, emotional, and ethical—Crisis in the Red Zone is an immersion in one of the great public health calamities of our time. Preston writes of doctors and nurses in the field putting their own lives on the line, of government bureaucrats and NGO administrators moving, often fitfully, to try to contain the outbreak, and of pharmaceutical companies racing to develop drugs to combat the virus. He also explores the charged ethical dilemma over who should and did receive the rare doses of an experimental treatment when they became available at the peak of the disaster. Crisis in the Red Zone makes clear that the outbreak of 2013–2014 is a harbinger of further, more severe outbreaks, and of emerging viruses heretofore unimagined—in any country, on any continent. In our ever more interconnected world, with roads and towns cut deep into the jungles of equatorial Africa, viruses both familiar and undiscovered are being unleashed into more densely populated areas than ever before. The more we discover about the virosphere, the more we realize its deadly potential. Crisis in the Red Zone is an exquisitely timely book, a stark warning of viral outbreaks to come.
Stories Without Borders
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Author : Julia Sonnevend
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Stories Without Borders written by Julia Sonnevend and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
How do stories of particular events turn into global myths, while others fade away? What becomes known and seen as a global iconic event? In Stories without Borders, Julia Sonnevend considers the ways in which we recount and remember news stories of historic significance. Focusing on journalists covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and on subsequent retellings of the event in a variety of ways - from Legoland reenactments to slabs of the Berlin Wall installed in global cities - Sonnevend discusses how certain events become built up so that people in many parts of the world remember them for long periods of time. She argues that five dimensions determine the viability and longevity of international news events. First, a foundational narrative must be established with certain preconditions. Next, the established narrative becomes universalized and a mythical message developed. This message is then condensed and encapsulated in a simple phrase, a short narrative, and a recognizable visual scene. Counter-narratives emerge that reinterpret events and in turn facilitate their diffusion across multiple media platforms and changing social and political contexts. Sonnevend examines these five elements through the developments of November 9, 1989 - what came to be known as the fall of the Berlin Wall. Stories Without Borders concludes with a discussion of how global iconic events have an enduring effect on individuals and societies, pointing out that after common currencies, military alliances, and international courts have failed, stories may be all that we have to bring hope and unity.
Soldiers Without Borders Crisis In Central Africa
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Soldiers Without Borders Crisis In Central Africa written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Political Science categories.
Babies Without Borders
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Author : Karen Dubinsky
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-06-28
Babies Without Borders written by Karen Dubinsky and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-28 with Family & Relationships categories.
Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popular source of political critique. From fake news and pundit shows to animated sitcoms and mash-up videos, satire has become an important avenue for processing politics in informative and entertaining ways, and satire TV is now its own thriving, viable television genre. Satire TV examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programs, from The Daily Show to South Park, Da Ali G Show to The Colbert Report, The Boondocks to Saturday Night Live, Lil' Bush to Chappelle's Show, along with Internet D.I.Y. satire and essays on British and Canadian satire. They all offer insights into what today's class of satire tells us about the current state of politics, of television, of citizenship, all the while suggesting what satire adds to the political realm that news and documentaries cannot.
History And Its Limits
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Author : Dominick LaCapra
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-23
History And Its Limits written by Dominick LaCapra and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-23 with Philosophy categories.
Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences involving violence and victimization. He asks how historians treat and are simultaneously implicated in the traumatic processes they attempt to represent. In addressing these questions, he also investigates violence's impact on various types of writing and establishes a distinctive role for critical theory in the face of an insufficiently discriminating aesthetic of the sublime (often unreflectively amalgamated with the uncanny). In History and Its Limits, LaCapra inquires into the related phenomenon of a turn to the "postsecular," even the messianic or the miraculous, in recent theoretical discussions of extreme events by such prominent figures as Giorgio Agamben, Eric L. Santner, and Slavoj Zizek. In a related vein, he discusses Martin Heidegger's evocative, if not enchanting, understanding of "The Origin of the Work of Art." LaCapra subjects to critical scrutiny the sometimes internally divided way in which violence has been valorized in sacrificial, regenerative, or redemptive terms by a series of important modern intellectuals on both the far right and the far left, including Georges Sorel, the early Walter Benjamin, Georges Bataille, Frantz Fanon, and Ernst Jünger. Violence and victimization are prominent in the relation between the human and the animal. LaCapra questions prevalent anthropocentrism (evident even in theorists of the "posthuman") and the long-standing quest for a decisive criterion separating or dividing the human from the animal. LaCapra regards this attempt to fix the difference as misguided and potentially dangerous because it renders insufficiently problematic the manner in which humans treat other animals and interact with the environment. In raising the issue of desirable transformations in modernity, History and Its Limits examines the legitimacy of normative limits necessary for life in common and explores the disconcerting role of transgressive initiatives beyond limits (including limits blocking the recognition that humans are themselves animals).