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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the sulāliyāt through an interdisciplinary examination of their leadership. The sulāliyāt challenge to official narratives of development and universalist human rights signals their capacity to formulate alternative local meanings of land ownership. Soukat was reluctant to take part in the public debate...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the subject of Cold War history in search of an impossible historical consensus. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 trauma reparations human rights Holocaust Hiroshima But with Hiroshima, where the continuity of life was, for the first time, put...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 193–221.
Published: 01 October 2024
... canonical example of what the essay calls the “aggrieved personality of rights”: the personal allegiances, circumstances, and injuries that inspire individuals to seek redress in the language of rights. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 refugees human rights...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., to entertain and absolve. All representations of human rights abuses are complex productions, combining in their best incarnationsfactual documentation with emotion­ ally arresting ways of gaining the viewers' attention. Like much of contemporary journalism, human rights representations utilize the presumed...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Massimiliano Tomba 1793: The Neglected Legacy ofInsurgent Universality Massimiliano Tomba Insurgent universality refers to the excess ofequality and freedom over the juridicalframe ofuniversal human rights. It announces a politics beyond the state. While the histories ofhuman rights usually give...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 169–183.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Afsaneh Najmabadi Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Interventions Is Another Language Possible? Afsaneh Najmahadi Overthepast decade, issues ofgender and sexual rights (attimes ensconced within human rights) in Muslim-majority countries have acquired urgent political...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
... had no right to live. . . . With the Nazis in power, Jews were no longer considered fully human beings with personalities and identities. Instead, they were disparaged and considered second-class citizens” ( Anne Frank ; my translation). That Jewish citizenship was conditional even before...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Are Failing Same-Sex Practicing People in Africa . New York : International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission , 2007 . Kifle Kidanewold . Amharic Dictionary . Addis Ababa, 1948 [1955 GC]. Levine Donald N. Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of Multi-ethnic Society . 2nd ed...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
... practice ofcolonial dispossession) instead takes on the contours ofan experience of victimhood: a traumatization ofthe nationalsettlercommunityand aviolation ofwhat Kareem Rabie and I defined as the "human right to the colony"-the claim to the right to colonize based on the argument that preventing...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 113–141.
Published: 01 October 2019
... with the title "Kurdish National Identity and Human Rights: {The Kurdish issue was at this moment taking increasingly more lives due to an ongoing 1 18 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT guerilla war.) The expulsion was followed by the resignations of those who protested the decision; the expelled and the resigned together...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 233–236.
Published: 01 October 2019
... I www.press.u i l l inois.edu (2 1 7) 244-0626 journals,a1u i l l i nois.ed u U N IVERSITY OF I LLI NOIS PRESS J O H UCRNIVAI LL U MAN OARNIFGDH TS Edited by Michael Ezra The Journal of Civil and Human Rights is an i nterd i s c i p l i nary academic journal dedicated to studying modern U.S...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of Civil and Human Rights is an interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to studying modern U . S .-based social justice movements and freedom struggles, including transnational ones, and their antecedents, infl uence, and legacies. JCHR i s p u b l i shed with the s u p port of Sonoma State U n i...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 242–246.
Published: 01 October 2017
... OARNIFGDHTS Edited by Michael Ezra The Journal of Civil and Human Rights is a n i nterd isciplinary academic journal dedicated t o studying modern U . S .-based social j u stice m ovements and freedom struggles, including transnational ones, and their antecedents, influence, and legacies. JCHR i s publ ished...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 87–103.
Published: 01 April 2016
... Human Rights, Hunt tells us that "there is no easy or obvious way to prove or even measure the effect of new cultural experiences on eighteenth-century people, much less on their conception ofrights.Scientific studies ofpresent-day responses to reading or watching television have proved difficult enough...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the memory of these racist riots, human rights activists organized a series of protests in Turkey. In the Turkish newspapers, images of the protesters with signs that read “Never again!” appeared together with reports on the Turkish government’s latest counterinsurgency salvo in the Kurdish provinces...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
... might be altogether refused in the future. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. slavery human reproduction racial...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Joseph . The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Meister Robert . After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights . New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 . Morris Benny . The Birth...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 April 2015
...:' Critical Inquiry 26, no. 2 (2000) : 183. 48. Hannah Arendt, The Origins ofTotalitarianism (1950) , 290. 49. See, for example, William V. Spanos, Exilesinthe City:HannahArendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint (2012) . 50. Edward W. Said, "Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation:' Reflections...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 192–218.
Published: 01 October 2023
... commitment to human rights, sustainable development and living, and global well-being, thereby reflecting a truly global citizen. (6) This is citizenship coded as global fraternity. Its deepest anxieties are rooted in the careful separation maintained between the globality of capital and the globality...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., and globalizing discourses of democracy and human rights, which oppose themselves to "Oriental despotism" ofvarious chromatisms; discourses of women's rights, where the persistence of the "misogyny'' ofthe Orient has transformed its anthropological objects from foot-binding, sati, and the harem to "dowry deaths...