There can be no doubt that intercountry adoption has grown in popularity over the past decade and many childless couples are now considering it as one option in the struggle to achieve a family. By presenting eight first-hand accounts from couples who have adopted from abroad, Inter-Country Adoption offers fascinating insight to the emotional, financial and legal difficulties that prospective adoptive parents must face.
There can be no doubt that intercountry adoption has grown in popularity over the past decade and many childless couples are now considering it as one...
The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. It explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product: suffering, is used to try to remake the social world. Humphrey considers both the unmaking of the world through torture, war, urbicide and ethnic cleansing and the resultant remaking of the world through testimony and witnessing in the forums of truth commissions and trials. The discussion thus moves from terror to trauma.
The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-...
