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Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous
inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers
the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial
perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize
the study of mass violence in South Asia. The essays explore and
deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely
revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, memorialization
and literature, the need for Holocaust education, and the
criticality of dialogue and reconciliation. The language, content,
and characteristics of mass violence/genocide explicitly reinforce
its aggressive, transmuting, and multifaceted character and the
consequent necessity to understand the same in a nuanced manner.
The book is an attempt to do so as it takes episodes of mass
violence for case study from all inhabited continents, from the
twentieth century to the present. The volume studies 'consciously
enforced mass violence' through an interdisciplinary approach and
suggests that dialogue aimed at reconciliation is perhaps the
singular agency via which a solution could be achieved from mass
violence in the global context. The volume is essential reading for
postgraduate students and scholars from the interdisciplinary
fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History, Political
Science, Sociology, World History, Human Rights, and Global
Studies.
Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous
inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers
the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial
perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize
the study of mass violence in South Asia. The essays explore and
deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely
revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, memorialization
and literature, the need for Holocaust education, and the
criticality of dialogue and reconciliation. The language, content,
and characteristics of mass violence/genocide explicitly reinforce
its aggressive, transmuting, and multifaceted character and the
consequent necessity to understand the same in a nuanced manner.
The book is an attempt to do so as it takes episodes of mass
violence for case study from all inhabited continents, from the
twentieth century to the present. The volume studies 'consciously
enforced mass violence' through an interdisciplinary approach and
suggests that dialogue aimed at reconciliation is perhaps the
singular agency via which a solution could be achieved from mass
violence in the global context. The volume is essential reading for
postgraduate students and scholars from the interdisciplinary
fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History, Political
Science, Sociology, World History, Human Rights, and Global
Studies.
The ongoing political turmoil in the Middle East as a whole would
seem to be essentially a contest between the minimalist and
maximalist positions on popular sovereignty: should power merely
come from, and be exercised in the name of, the people? Or, should
those in power be fully accountable to the people? The dilemma
warrants a closer look. The present volume comes out of an
international conference held in Calcutta, India organised by the
Institute of Foreign Policy Studies and the Centre for Pakistan and
West Asian Studies, University of Calcutta in March 2013. This
volume aims not at a definitive analysis of why what happened did
happen; it aims instead at getting a sense of what was actually
happening, and what is at issue.
While strategic issues continue to be the critical element for
foreign policy formulation there are significant dimensions outside
the hard core of policy framework that remain by and large
unappreciated in policy-related literature. These dimensions
envelop a rather wide range of actions/activities that essentially
comprise what could be broadly referred to as constituting cultural
dynamics. These entail looking beyond the radar of strategic
relationships, at socio-cultural engagements encompassing both
institutions and communities. These in turn involve a large number
of citizens cutting across boundaries and reiterating and
reemphasising a sense of belonging or (un)belonging. This volume is
an attempt at looking beyond the realms of strategy in the Asian
geopolitical space. This compilation of essays, commentaries,
research notes and film review is an attempt at presenting a
nuanced understanding, analysis and appreciation of the cultural
linkages in the Asian milieu.
The Arab Spring, widely perceived as a momentous event in West
Asia, has evoked a persistent flow of interpretation and analysis
by academic experts and policy-makers since the upheaval first
broke out in December 2010 and the pace of events suggests the flow
of analysis on this issue will continue. Like all great social
upheavals, the Arab Spring was long-drawn-out in its realisation
and born of many factors that are intertwined. It could have
occurred any time during the course of the last two or three
decades but each passing year brought to the forefront new
developments that made it that much more imminent. Economic
problems, social problems, political problems, juridical problems
and diplomatic problems combined to contribute to an uncompromising
sense of grievance across the Arab world that ultimately manifested
itself in the Arab spring and winter of 2011. This volume comes out
of a conference organised by the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute
of Asian Studies, in collaboration with Institute of Foreign Policy
Studies and Centre of Pakistan and West Asian Studies, in which an
attempt was made to discuss these issues threadbare.
The Asia Annual 2011 focuses on the various aspects of democracy in
the Asian context. The chapters in this volume reflect diverse
perceptions, adopting an interdisciplinary approach, which enhance
the discussions and reveal a plethora of opinions and outlooks. The
collection of essays has been arranged primarily in terms of
'regions' (in the geopolitical sense). The volume brings together
contributions from leading experts and 'area specialists' who offer
special insights and critiques on crucial issues and questions
related to the central theme of democracy in their respective
'regions/areas' of specialisation. The intention is to submit an
inclusive volume concerning the idea of democracy in Asia. It
strives to offer an exhaustive analysis that could prove to be
valuable for those who are absorbed in Asian studies. The essays
contend with wide-ranging debates on varied aspects related to the
processes of democracy and democratisation from the Asian
geopolitical space and contemplate on problems arising from the
pressures associated with movements for democracy. The authors in
their accounts also raise crucial questions regarding the viability
as well as the consequences of external efforts at stimulating
democracy and the setting up of imported models of democracy. The
inherent emphasis is on both the intrinsic distinctiveness of the
regions as well as the considerable commonalities, which inspire
comparative analyses in general and in the context of
democracy/democratisation in particular.
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