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A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon. From
Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful
indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation,
from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human
beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or
deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared
with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and
environmental protests, and even computer games. The phenomenon,
however, is by no means a new one. Describing the use of human
shields in key historical and contemporary moments across the
globe, Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini demonstrate how the
increasing weaponization of human beings has made the position of
civilians trapped in theaters of violence more precarious and their
lives more expendable. They show how the law facilitates the use of
lethal violence against vulnerable people while portraying it as
humane, but they also reveal how people can and do use their own
vulnerability to resist violence and denounce forms of
dehumanization. Ultimately, Human Shields unsettles our common
ethical assumptions about violence and the law and urges us to
imagine entirely new forms of humane politics.
"Covering the four decades since the 1967 war rather than just the
current situation, "Israel's Occupation "offers a unique
perspective on the changing dynamics of the Israel-Palestine
conflict."--Timothy Mitchell, author of "Rule of Experts"
"Interweaving a mountain of documents, reports, and firsthand
testimonies, Neve Gordon, one of Israel's bravest intellectuals and
activists, details and examines the occupation of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip as no one ever has before. His book will no doubt change
the perspective from which the history of the occupation is
told."--Eyal Weizman, author of "Hollow Land"
"Neve Gordon's I"srael's Occupation" provides a powerful and
convincing structural framework for explaining Israel's changing
methods of rule in the Palestinian territories from 1967 and until
today. The arguments, insights, and supporting evidence are
impressive, and the prose is written with a golden pen. This book
will change the debate on Israel and its occupation, and I will not
be surprised if Gordon's conceptual framework is harnessed to
analyze the workings of other occupations, past and present. It's
social science at its best."--Yinon Cohen, Columbia University
'Either you are with us or you are with the Terrorists ' President
Bush exclaimed in a joint session of Congress ten days after the
September 11 attacks. Even though the war on terrorism and the
discourse surrounding it were ostensibly unleashed to protect
freedom and enhance democracy, they have actually empowered
authoritarian elements of state power and relegated human rights to
the margins of the political arena. InFrom the Margins of
Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Neve Gordon
assembles work of leading intellectuals and rights activists from
around the globe. While highlighting the importance of human
rights, each essay in this volume also encourages a critical
perspective, stretching, as it were, the conception of human rights
beyond its current borders. Whether it's Iranian premier, Mohammad
Khatami, writing on the clash of civilizations, Ytienne Balibar
thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism, or Ruchama
Marton discussing the relation between human rights and psychiatry,
this book comprises a challenge to some of the dominant worldviews
circulating in the west. Anyone studying human rights or
globalization in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political
science, political theory, economy and sociology should have a copy
of this volume.
"Either you are with us or you are with the Terrorists " President
Bush exclaimed in a joint session of Congress ten days after the
September 11 attacks. Even though the war on terrorism and the
discourse surrounding it were ostensibly unleashed to protect
freedom and enhance democracy, they have actually empowered
authoritarian elements of state power and relegated human rights to
the margins of the political arena. InFrom the Margins of
Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Neve Gordon
assembles work of leading intellectuals and rights activists from
around the globe. While highlighting the importance of human
rights, each essay in this volume also encourages a critical
perspective, stretching, as it were, the conception of human rights
beyond its current borders. Whether it's Iranian premier, Mohammad
Khatami, writing on the clash of civilizations, Etienne Balibar
thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism, or Ruchama
Marton discussing the relation between human rights and psychiatry,
this book comprises a challenge to some of the dominant worldviews
circulating in the west. Anyone studying human rights or
globalization in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political
science, political theory, economy and sociology should have a copy
of this volume."
Ethics in International Affairs brings together an international
and interdisciplinary cast of scholars to address the major issues
in international ethics. Touching on theoretical debates and
examining engaging case studies, this volume looks at issues of
morality and international affairs, just war theory, terrorism,
political violence, humanitarian intervention, and global
distributive justice. Cases include the Persian Gulf War; the use
of chemical weapons in Vietnam; terrorism in Northern Ireland and
the Middle East; intervention in civil conflicts in Africa; Germany
s recognition of Slovenia and Croatia; the moral duties of
multinationals; and the fate of the New International Economic
Order. This collection of original essays will be valuable to
students and scholars of international ethics and international
affairs."
Ethics in International Affairs brings together an international
and interdisciplinary cast of scholars to address the major issues
in international ethics. Touching on theoretical debates and
examining engaging case studies, this volume looks at issues of
morality and international affairs, just war theory, terrorism,
political violence, humanitarian intervention, and global
distributive justice. Cases include the Persian Gulf War; the use
of chemical weapons in Vietnam; terrorism in Northern Ireland and
the Middle East; intervention in civil conflicts in Africa;
GermanyOs recognition of Slovenia and Croatia; the moral duties of
multinationals; and the fate of the New International Economic
Order. This collection of original essays will be valuable to
students and scholars of international ethics and international
affairs.
At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged:
conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding
human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to
advance their political goals. In this book, Nicola Perugini and
Neve Gordon account for how human rights - generally conceived as a
counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices -
are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize
domination. Using Israel/Palestine as its main case study, The
Human Right to Dominate describes the establishment of settler NGOs
that appropriate human rights to dispossess indigenous Palestinians
and military think-tanks that rationalize lethal violence by
invoking human rights. The book underscores the increasing
convergences between human rights NGOs, security agencies, settler
organizations, and extreme right nationalists, showing how
political actors of different stripes champion the dissemination of
human rights and mirror each other's political strategies. Indeed,
Perugini and Gordon demonstrate the multifaceted role that this
discourse is currently playing in the international arena: on the
one hand, human rights have become the lingua franca of global
moral speak, while on the other, they have become reconstrued as a
tool for enhancing domination.
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