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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2022
...David L. Eng Abstract This article explores unexamined links between psychic and political theories of trauma to investigate the constitution of victims deserving and undeserving of reparation as they emerge in the context of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Tribunals...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 115–142.
Published: 01 October 2014
... parliament.The signatories to this Declaration proclaimed that the"millions of victims of Communism and their families are entitled to enjoy justice, sympathy, understanding and recognition for their sufferings in the same way as the victims of Nazism have been mor ally and politically recognized...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 203–219.
Published: 01 October 2014
..., and absences noted. These words authorize at the same time that they create: there is theq uartet of memory, commemo ration, patrimony, and identity, to which one must at least add the crime against humanity, victim, witness, and still others. Historians cannot ignore these terms any more than anyone else can...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... ofperson can be presented as a believable and worthy victim of sexual violation?2 Not anyone, it would seem.The resolution of these questions in the area of sex trafficking has been to focus on blameless, that is, not sexually active, young women to whom great injury has been done, often following...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 84–112.
Published: 01 April 2019
... this experimentation program in a manner fully satisfactory to veteran and civilian victims and their advocates.3 Respecting the damage and suffering French nuclear testing inflicted in NorthAfrica and the Pacific, and thecontinuingneed for meaningful changes to existing forms of recognition and restitution, I want...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 177–208.
Published: 01 October 2018
... had a stance and I felt alienated amongst my own people. These were the people I had once considered needed fighting for through art:'18 Harsono became involved in the effort to document and aid victims, and his conviction that ethnic Chinese would always be vulnerable during times of political crisis...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
... relation to trauma, the trauma determines us unilaterally, even as we operate within its horizon and by way of its internal logic [ . . . ] . Trauma presents us with a specific responsibility precisely because it threatens to render us pure victims who, by definition, cannot take responsibility...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 April 2019
... that the vessel had carried humans ratherthancargo. Overnight, morethansixty, mostlyfemalecorpses beached; others followed over the next days. The citizens ofBoulogne buried around eighty victims. The meaning of the disaster was immediately contested. Especially in the French public sphere, the cruelty...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
... fictional memoir, The Life of Dr. RichardJennings, the Great Victimizer, narrate the incestuous problem of radical publicity. In doing so, both stories track the ultimately disordered circulation of bodies in liberal market capitalism, both within the nation and internationally, and the unexpected return...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 187–207.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and the culture that this language expressed. In the latter half, I consider how the German government’s compensation laws for Holocaust victims shaped modern Roma identity. As Julia von dem Knesebeck has observed, “Ironically, the post-war developments in a way reinforced the racial categorisations created...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
... not count). Today the Forum focuses on anti-Semitism, antiziganism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, and racism. When the Forum was established, however, Islamophobia, biphobia, and transphobia were not included; it initially was concerned only with populations that were victimized during...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 217–232.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... Sanctuaries are neither solely about serving "victims;' nor are they instances ofmere opposition to state anti- immigration policies. Pastor Jurgen Quantz began the sanctuary movementinGermany in1983. There are some points in the interview he gave that are worth examining more closely. The first concerns...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 200–216.
Published: 01 October 2015
... PRESENT importantly, placing the principle ofthe heterogeneity embedded in the term "women" at the heart ofgender relations. Not all women are victims. It also brings us to interrogate the stability ofthe category ofwoman, extending the reflections ofMonique Wittig2 and Judith Butler3 who have both shown...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 241–252.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as a result of its forced insertion into “a failed marriage narrative” that could only imagine her as a victim not an actor. This story, for Spivak, becomes emblematic of larger histories in which women’s agency, desires, and self-understanding are rendered mute not because they are omitted from archives...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
... represents them as victims of their own culture. This article uses a political-economic theoretical framework to intervene in the complex discursive strategies of "femonationalism;' or the contem- History ofthe Present:Afournal of Critical History, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2012. Copyright © 2012 University...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 113–141.
Published: 01 October 2019
... that defies the sovereignty of rulers and the moral exclusions on which the symbolic depends.15And yet, to what extent can we defend singularity and un-sublimated desires and instincts in the polis without being the victims ofthe age of post-truth or, without ruining the terms on which our collective life...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2011
... injustices or as an exposure ofthe ways the powerful have oppressed or victimized their "others:' Nor will we look for work that seeks to right the balance of past mistreatment, showing, for History ofthe Present: AJournal ofCritical History, Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2011. Copyright© 2011 University of Illinois...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 237–255.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of members of historically mistreated groups from discrimination, nor in terms of the ways language is used to construct and reproduce asymmetries of power. The language of protection, moreover, is conceptualized in terms of victimization; the way to make a claim or to justify one’s protest against perceived...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 75–96.
Published: 01 April 2014
... no law, Garrow asserted, "Englishor Spanish [that] could justify him in making this unhappy creature his victim:'40 Picton should not have "wanted any assessor or juris consult" to justify torturing Calderon; rather, he should have consulted the "English heart in his bosom;' and so learned that torture...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 October 2015
... the political form to change. The two perspectives could not be more dissimilar. On the one side, the Declaration of1789 constitutes the origin of the legacy of juridical univer salism. This is the universalism that comes from above and that implies a subject ofright who is either passive or a victim who...
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