Recent histories of human rights identify the 1970s as the" breakthrough" period when they
gained traction globally. However, most of the new historiographers adopt a restricted …

More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is
thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out “too big to …

This book studies human rights discourse across a variety of graphic novels, both fiction and
non-fiction, originating in different parts of the world, from India to South Africa, Sarajevo to …

Description: New York: Columbia University Press,[2020]| Series: Modernist latitudes|
Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019058884 (print)| LCCN …

" Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction takes issue with the understanding
of empathy as something that one has. Drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect …

The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed a simultaneous rise of human rights
discourse and life narrations that tell stories of human atrocities. This has led to memoirs …

This chapter critically explores the turn to virtual reality (VR) in human rights and
humanitarian campaigning, and specifically the contention that VR and allied immersive …

“Go ahead and torture me. It will take my death to make me talk, and for your information I'm
sorry for every bit of cooperation I have offered in the past,” I said.“First of all, your …

Drawing on empirical research, this article explores the possible sociopolitical effects of
database infrastructures on the shaping and construction of human rights narratives. While it …

" The book Right to Mourn illustrates how suppressed trauma is manifested at the transient
interactions among bodies, objects, and rituals in the sites of Korean War memorials. In a …