This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment by states and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which the concern with the past may represent a departure from the traditionally future-oriented stance of progressive politics. Viewing the search for "coming to terms with the past" as a form of politics, it argues that there are major differences between reparations for...
This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campai...
This book addresses one of the least studied yet most pervasive aspects of modern life--the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity. From passports and identity cards to labor registration and alien documentation, from fingerprinting to much-debated contemporary issues such as DNA-typing, body surveillance, and the catastrophic results of colonial-era identity documentation in postcolonial Rwanda, Documenting Individual Identity offers the most comprehensive historical overview of this fascinating topic ever published.
The nineteen...
This book addresses one of the least studied yet most pervasive aspects of modern life--the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies ce...
Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that 'reparations politics' has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of international affairs in coming years. In addition to broad theoretical and philosophical reflection, the book includes discussions of the politics of reparations in specific countries and regions,...
Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. ...
The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today's world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions raised by the place of religion in the social sciences, past and present, The Post-Secular in Question restores religion to a more central place in social scientific thinking about the...
The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This col...
Today s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection "Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World "show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms.The essays in this volume discuss: . the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering;. the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries;. the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare;. the...
Today s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry...
Today s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection "Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World "show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms.The essays in this volume discuss: . the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering;. the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries;. the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare;. the...
Today s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry...
Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Once the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the people of East Germany had little use for the dissident intellectuals who had helped bring it down. Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent offers a penetrating look into the circumstances of this fall from grace, unique among the former Communist states.
John Torpey traces the...
Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavaila...
