... displacements between houses and cities. These practices are embedded in an intense and widespread network of mutual witness, placing questions of class, race, aging, and gender, as well as the power of criminal groups, in the same web of relationships. The author argues that local relations and mutual...

... trained to scope out atrocities on the ground with a half-meter resolution. —Ian Daly, “Can You Spot the Human-Rights Abuses Here?” Wired , March 2013 The world is watching because you are watching. —Satellite Sentinel Project How to witness an emergency—an event that would render mere...

... becomes possible. In 1977, Jamaica witnessed the birth of one of the Caribbean’s first gay activist organizations, the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM), during the democratic socialist administration of the newly independent island’s then prime minister Michael Manley. By situating GFM in relation to Jamaica’s...

... and irreverence are coupled with deep conviction and (sometimes deadly) serious action. Writing as a multidisciplinary collective, the authors have witnessed irony playing a crucial role in diverse social movements — from BlackLivesMatter activists in Ghana, to post‐crash political imaginaries in Greece...

... of the style of urbanism that one witnesses in Dubai. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 ...

... for the very constitution of the popular. Daily rituals around the Coca Cola logo (placing empty plastic pots as mute witness to water scarcity) became critical to the formation of such a front against the corporate giant. I argue such performances are the norm these days in our highly media-saturated...

... for force-feeding, the author argues that pain becomes the basis of not only political subjectivity but also relationality between those held captive and the spectator. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 force-feeding Guantánamo Bay surveillance visuality witnessing In May 2014...

..., an event in an open series of national events: nineteenth- century slave accounts of witnessed violence and the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. These cases help us understand how, to use the Biblical phrase James Baldwin has already deployed, “the evidence of things not seen” is crucial...

...Figure 1 Witness (2023), Madison Square Park, New York. Photo: Lynda Churilla. ...

... as alternatives to revenge, as modes of possible departure from violence, ele- 288 ments in a politics of nonrepetition. The first is witnessing; the second is the legal Reconciliation after redress of violence, or what might be called retributive justice. Ethnic Cleansing...

... and Connecting Print Cultures: Two Conceptions of Twelver Shi‘i Reformism in the Indian Ocean .” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 24 , no. 3 : 455 – 75 . Peters John Durham . 2001 . “ Witnessing .” Media, Culture, and Society 23 , no. 6 : 707 – 23 . Plessner Helmuth . ( 1925...

.... In this article, I am particularly interested in the role that photography (photo journalism more especially) is playing in relation to the emergent visual repertoires of perpetual war. Witnessing US Foreign Policy Two recent...

... but the relent- less progression of historical time and the remnant heartbeats of the survivor. Time is running out, and the witnesses of history are passing away without hav- ing been given a chance to tell their stories. The camera that follows...

...Achille Mbembe; Nsizwa Dlamini; Grace Khunou © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Achille Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand and a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University...

... into the air: A history of the idea of communication . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ——— 2000 . Witnessing. Media, Culture and Society 23 : 707 –23. Pinchevski, Amit, and Roy Brand. 2007 . Holocaust perversions: The Stalags pulp fiction and the Eichmann trial. Critical Studies in Media...

... in the significance attributed to experience and thus to testi- mony. People who have experienced an event and bear witness to it have come to be regarded as the most authentic bearers of truth about the past, indeed as the embodiment of history, and their accounts are increasingly received by many...

... to legitimate the historical evi- dence presented to judges and commissioners. These practices are necessary for constituting out of witness testimony a public record that can then circulate as an authoritative text of legal proceedings...