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Providing an intellectual biography of the challenging concept of
genocide from inception to present day, this topical Handbook takes
an interdisciplinary approach to shed new light on the events,
processes, and legacies in the field. Reaching beyond the
traditional study of canonical genocides and related pathologies of
behaviour, this Handbook strives to spell out the multiple
dimensions of genocide studies as an academic realm. In doing so,
it incorporates a vast range of methods and disciplines, including
historiography, archival research, listening to testimony,
philosophical inquiry, film studies, and art criticism.
Contributors address a broad array of episodes, including genocides
of indigenous populations in the Americas and Africa, the Armenian
genocide, the Holocaust, twentieth century genocides in Indonesia,
Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and twenty-first century genocides in
Iraq, Myanmar, and China. By developing a cross-disciplinary
framework, this Handbook showcases the diversity that comprises the
field and creates a rich understanding of the origin, effects, and
legacy of genocide. With a wide variety of perspectives, this
Handbook will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars
of international and human rights, public policy, and political
geography and geopolitics, particularly those interested in
genocide studies and the UN Genocide Convention.
In many respects, Zambia is an African success story. From a
territory whose borders were drawn with minimal attention either to
the ethnic geography of the day or to natural features that
combined (and sometimes divided) dozens of distinct ethnic groups,
rose a nation with a long record of peace that has enjoyed decades
of constitutional rule, and even, in recent years, an increasingly
competitive democracy. Perhaps most improbably, the country has
forged a national identity. Unfortunately, peace,
constitutionalism, democracy, and nationhood constantly face
challenges, such as in the elections of 2006 when the ugly language
of ethnic confrontation found renewed currency. Moreover, Zambia's
economic record and prospects have been on the decline. After over
four decades, per capita incomes are lower than they were at the
dawn of independence, and 95 percent of its people live on less
that $2 per day. Despite repeated efforts to diversify the economy,
copper exports and foreign assistance are the main sources of the
vast majority of Zambia's foreign exchange earnings. And most
devastating at all, the AIDS pandemic has already lowered the
average life expectancy below 40. For a country one might regard as
"heading in the right direction," Zambia has a long way to go. The
third edition of Historical Dictionary of Zambia, through its
chronology, introductory essay, appendixes, map, bibliography, and
hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important
persons, places, events, and institutions and significant
political, economic, social, and cultural aspects, provides an
important reference on this African country.
This volume explores the shifting tides of how political violence
is memorialized in today's decentralized, digital era. The book
enhances our understanding of how the digital turn is changing the
ways that we remember, interpret, and memorialize the past. It also
raises practical and ethical questions of how we should utilize
these tools and study their impacts. Cases covered include
memorialization efforts related to the genocides in Rwanda,
Cambodia, Europe (the Holocaust), and Armenia; to non-genocidal
violence in Haiti, and the Portuguese Colonial War on the African
Continent; and of the September 11 attacks on the United States.
This volume explores the shifting tides of how political violence
is memorialized in today's decentralized, digital era. The book
enhances our understanding of how the digital turn is changing the
ways that we remember, interpret, and memorialize the past. It also
raises practical and ethical questions of how we should utilize
these tools and study their impacts. Cases covered include
memorialization efforts related to the genocides in Rwanda,
Cambodia, Europe (the Holocaust), and Armenia; to non-genocidal
violence in Haiti, and the Portuguese Colonial War on the African
Continent; and of the September 11 attacks on the United States.
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