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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence
Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and
methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work
among people who have been identified as perpetrators of genocide.
This can include overcoming biases that often accompany research on
perpetrators; conceptualizing, identifying, and recruiting research
subjects; risk mitigation and negotiating access in difficult
contexts; self-care in conducting interviews relating to extreme
violence; and minimizing harm for interviewees who may themselves
be traumatized. This collection of case studies by scholars from a
range of disciplinary backgrounds turns a critical and reflective
eye toward qualitative fieldwork on the topic. Framed by an
introduction that sets out key issues in perpetrator research and a
conclusion that proposes and outlines a code of best practice, the
volume provides an essential starting point for future research
while advancing genocide studies, transitional justice, and related
fields. This original, important, and welcome contribution will be
of value to historians, political scientists, criminologists,
anthropologists, lawyers, and legal scholars.
In Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day,
and the Reconstruction-Era South, Jack Noe examines identity and
nationalism in the post-Civil War South through the lens of
commemorative activity, namely Independence Day celebrations and
the Centennial of 1876. Both events presented opportunities for
whites, Blacks, northerners, and southerners to reflect on their
identity as Americans. The often colorful and engaging discourse
surrounding these observances provides a fascinating portrait of
this fractured moment in the development of American nationalism.
What is the role of the war reporter today? Through interviews with
prominent war and foreign correspondents such as John Pilger,
Robert Fisk, Mary Dejevsky and Alex Thomson The War Correspondent
delves into the most dangerous form of journalism. From Crimea to
Vietnam, the Falklands to the Gulf and Afghanistan, Iraq and the
War on Terror, the books examines the attractions and risks of war
reporting; the challenge of objectivity and impartiality in the war
zone; the danger that journalistic independence is compromised by
military control, censorship and public relations; as well as the
commercial and technological pressures of an intensely
concentrated, competitive news media environment. As history and
ideology return to the reporting of international conflict, Greg
McLaughlin asks what will that mean for a new generation of war
correspondents, attuned not to history or ideology but to the
politics of the next conflict.
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