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Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead of Shipwreck
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Henning Trüper Copyright © 2019 University of Illinois Press 2019 Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead ofShipwreck Henning Triiper I. When hespentthesummer of1833in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Heinrich Heinewit nessed a disaster at sea, the wreck oftheAmphitrite...
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Depth and Death: On History, Humanitarianism, and Mortuary Culture
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and actually reverting them back to the practice of accounting for deep times in historical writing. The argument proceeds, in a first step, by analyzing the ties between modern European mortuary cultures and historical writing. In a second step, the history of humanitarian moralities is brought to bear...
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Empire’s Babel: US Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2013
... the regulated interrogation room as a sort of liberal privilege, one that must be denied to undeserving "enemy combatants" who have already placed themselves outside the bounds of international humanitarian law. For critics and supporters alike, information itselfis an unquestioned, self-evident good...
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Front Matter
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): i–iv.
Published: 01 April 2019
[email protected]. VOLUME NINE, NUMBER ONE, SPRING 2019 History ofthe Present A "Special" Difference: For a Foucauldian/Feminist Genealogy ofFreud Ed Cohen 1 Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead ofShipwreck Henning Triiper 27 "The Darker to the Lighter Races:" The Precolonial...
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The New Old Imperialism in the Arabian Peninsula: An Intervention
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., for example, International Labour Organization; Oxfam International; International Crisis Group; Mundy; UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 3 How much of this was state sponsored and how much the initiative of wealthy Saudi citizens is not altogether clear. 4 For an analysis...
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Friends for Dinner: The Early Modern Roots of Modern Carnivorous Sensibilities
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 84–112.
Published: 01 April 2011
... ofmodem humanitarianism, which Fieringcharacterizes as "the widespread inclination to protest against obvi ous and pointless physical suffering:'52 Oddly enough, perhaps the first and greatest exponent of the idea that mankind was naturally and instinctivelycompassionate was the dog-kick ing Malebranche...
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The Moral Economy of Settler Colonialism: Israel and the “Evacuation Trauma”
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
... to assist with the trauma ofrelocation and to give practical logistical advice:'39 Warning ofthe risk ofa humanitarian disaster-a notion used by some settler spokespersons already during the evacuation-some civil society organizations, individuals, and NGOs such as the Legal Forum for the Land oflsrael...
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Islam Out of History: Three Genealogies
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 253–278.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., resist, or upend them. This would offer a different geography based in the social archives of jihād as sites of colonial occupation and racialized violence, both inside and outside America. The questions of Bosnia and humanitarian intervention, Palestine and settler colonialism, and Afghanistan...
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Art and Collective Healing: Sarkis Zabunyan and the Politics of Denial
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 222–244.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... 9 The problematic aspect here is rather the promise , the liberal fantasy that this exhibit—or any other—could work as a way of remembering a massacre denied for more than a century and how such a notion of art, steeped as it is in assumptions about its emotive, humanitarian capacities, has...
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The Aggrieved Personality of Rights: US Refugees and Rights in the Age of Paine and Burke
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 193–221.
Published: 01 October 2024
... phenomenon, but the “legibility of ‘refugeness’ vis-à-vis precarity, human rights violation, and humanitarian aid is largely a postwar phenomenon tragically ‘brought into being’ by the Holocaust and reiterated by the experiences of those impacted by civil conflict, environmental catastrophe, and global...
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Sanctuaries as Anachronism and Anticipation
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 217–232.
Published: 01 October 2019
.../who-we-are-new-sanctuary/zo17 -statement-sanctuary/ 19. Hilary Cunningham, "The Emergence of the Ontario Sanctuary Coalition: From Humanitarian and Compassionate Review to Civil Initiative; in Lippert e Rehaag, Sanctuary Practices, 172. 20. See Loukia Kotronaki, "Outside the Doors: Refugee...
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The Present of the Historian
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 203–219.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of a world that privileges interactive, live com munication, both in real time and online, what is immediate and what can be considered from a distance-the compassionate humanitarianism of politicians, the practice of instant regrets and the work ofmourning in less than twenty-four hours? What speaks more...
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Life After Sovereignty
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 97–113.
Published: 01 April 2014
...; Public Culture 18:1 (2006), 125-146; Bonnie Honig, Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (2011) ; and Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi, eds., Contemporary States ofEmergency: ThePolitics ofMilitary and Humanitarian Interventions (2010) . 38. See Elizabeth A. Povinelli, "Routes/Worlds; e-jlux 27...
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Innocence and Experience: Melodramatic Narratives of Sex Trafficking and Their Consequences for Law and Policy
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... and Richard D. Brown, eds., Humanitarianism and Suffering (2008) ; Joseph R. Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law (2007) ; Sharon Sliwinski.HumanRights in Camera (2011) ; Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore, eds., Theoretical Perspectives...
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The Bones in the Concept: Big History, Theodor Adorno and Second Nature
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 63–86.
Published: 01 April 2016
... and carry history forward.Hence we are left with the most famous quotation from NegativeDialectics: "Universal history must be construed and denied No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the megaton bomb:'62 79 The Bones in the Concept...
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Law of Nations and the “Conflict of the Faculties”
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 4–28.
Published: 01 April 2018
... to illuminate international law's past. What about "humanitarianism" or "globalization" as competing frames? No doubt, the choice ofthe frame depends on one's political inclinations.2 In the standard histories ofinternational law, finally, there is much over lap in content; most histories include texts...
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On Becoming Less of the World
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 88–116.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Wheaton, The Elements of lnternational Law (1836) , 44- 45. 31. Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum, trans. G.L. Ulmen (2003) , 230. 32. Davide Rodogno, Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ot toman Empire, 1815- 1914 (2011). 33...
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Land Rights and Women’s Rights in Morocco: Cooperation and Contestation among Rural and Urban Women Activists
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... women’s pleas for an equal share in land benefits. Another key event was the granting of a national-level award called the Khamīsa (2009 for social and humanitarian action) to two sulāliyāt (Berriane 67). The dominance of this story arc gradually changed the meaning of land dispossession and its...
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Surrogacy at the Fertility Frontier: Rethinking Surrogacy in Israel/Palestine as an (Anti)Colonial Episteme
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
... a humanitarian mission to Nepal, with the repatriation of the Israeli surrogacy babies and their dads as the top priority, while the Indian surrogacy mothers were left in Nepal. On the arrival of the first three young babies in Israel, the spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sent out the following...
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Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., and socialist movements; it did not emerge from "modernist 'humanitarian' impulses or ideas of individual 'liberty"' but rather "through the collective power of ancestors and kin:'6 Conjurors and practitioners of otherAfrican andAfrican diasporic healing traditions ad dressedproblemscommonto working people...
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