Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures

ISBN-13: 9781137437105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 256 str.

Marouf Hasian Jr

Opis

The abuses and atrocities committed against indigenous populations during the colonial era are coming back to haunt the old imperial powers. As the idea of retributive justice becomes increasingly popular, former colonizing countries such as Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands are being held to account, through lawsuits and national apologies, for crimes they committed against native populations, requiring them to confront some of the grimmer aspects of their imperial pasts. This comparative study explores attitudes toward the existence of German, Spanish, American, and British concentration camps at the turn of the 19th Century. Through a critical genealogical study of these camp cultures, this text explores how imperialists and anti-imperialists have justified and condemned these camps and analyzes the continued debate on their legality, legitimacy, and necessity. Crucially, the study looks at current disputes between those who wish to revive memories of the struggles faced by Cuban guerillas, the Boers, and the Herero and Nama communities who were the victim of such horrendous atrocities and those who against calls for restorative justice for these crimes.

Recenzje

'In this impressively researched and deftly argued work, Marouf Hasian, Jr. demonstrates the instrumental function of rhetoric in shaping and reshaping (post)colonial pasts, presents, and futures. The author's theoretically adept, meticulously documented case analyses throw light on the 'amnesiac practices' that continue to fuel sociopolitical imaginaries. Hasian's book performs a timely intervention in humanitarian scholarship'

D. Robert DeChaine, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

'Marouf Hasian offers an innovative approach to thinking about (post)colonialism, and its relationship to memory. In his careful analysis of each case study from very different political and historical contexts, Hasian makes important connections between how memory is rhetorically constructed in the context of camps. The framework of 'camps' advances our understanding of (post)colonialism and memory. This book is a significant contribution to this area of inquiry.'

Tom Nakayama, Northeastern University, USA

Spis treści

1. The Biopolitical Usage of Colonial Camp Systems Between 1896 and 1908 and the Quest For Restorative Justice 2. General Valeriano Weyler, the Spanish 'Reconcentración Policy,' and American Calls for Military Intervention into Cub 3. The 'Faded Flowers' and the Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War 4. The German Konzentrationslager and the Debates about the Annihilation of the Herero, 1905-1908 5. American 'Concentration' Camp Debates and Selective Remembrances of the Philippine-American War 6. (Post)colonial Presents and International Humanitarian Futures: Remembering the Age of the Colonial Camps

O autorze

Marouf Hasian, Jr., is a professor of communications in the Department of Communications at the University of Utah. He is the author of more than 140 articles and book chapters, and he continues to write about the importance of rhetorical histories in 21st-century studies of atrocities, large-scale massacres, and genocide. He is especially interested in investigating how military communities appropriate humanitarian discourses to justify national and international interventions.