Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Kirsten Weld (Author)

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Human Rights

In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of the country's National Police, which, at 75 million pages, proved to be the largest trove of secret state records ever found in Latin America.

The unearthing of the archives renewed fierce debates about history, memory, and justice. In Paper Cadavers, Weld explores Guatemala's struggles to manage this avalanche of evidence of past war crimes, providing a firsthand look at how postwar justice activists worked to reconfigure terror archives into implements of social change. Tracing the history of the police files as they were transformed from weapons of counterinsurgency into tools for post-conflict reckoning, Weld sheds light on the country's fraught transition from war to an uneasy peace, reflecting on how societies forget and remember political violence.

• Rank: #29721 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .80" h x 6.00" w x 9.00" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)

World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)
Human Rights Watch (Author), Kenneth Roth (Introduction)

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The 24th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2013 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2014 gives particular focus on the roles-positive or negative-played in each country by key domestic and international figures. This year's report includes contributions from Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, David Mepham, and Dinah PoKempner, with an introduction by Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth assessing the year's most pressing human rights issue.

• Rank: #57724 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-25
• Released on: 2014-02-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 6.00" w x 8.90" l, 2.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 672 pages

Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience (TRIOS)

Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience (TRIOS)
W. J. T. Mitchell (Author), Bernard E. Harcourt (Author), Michael Taussig (Author)

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Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors’ lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to the many protest signs still visible worldwide.

• Rank: #180152 in Books
• Published on: 2013-05-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .44 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras

Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras
Tanya M Kerssen (Author)

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Grabbing Power explores the history of agribusiness and land conflicts in Northern Honduras focusing on the Aguán Valley, where peasant movements battle large palm oil producers for the right to land. In the wake of a military coup that overthrew Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, rural communities in the Aguán have been brutally repressed, with over 60 people killed in just over two years. United States military aid--spent in the name of the War on Drugs--fuels the Honduran government's ability to repress its people. A strong and inspiring movement for land, food and democracy has grown over the last two years, and it shows no sign of backing down.

• Rank: #115412 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 188 pages

The Human Right to Health (Amnesty International Global Ethics Series)

The Human Right to Health (Amnesty International Global Ethics Series)
Jonathan Wolff (Author)

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“A broad-ranging, insightful analysis of the complex practical and ethical issues involved in global health.”—Kirkus Reviews

Few topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom from torture. Detractors suggest that the movement constitutes an impractical over-reach. Jonathan Wolff cuts through the ideological stalemate to explore both views. In an accessible, persuasive voice, he explores the philosophical underpinnings of the idea of a human right, assesses whether health meets those criteria, and identifies the political and cultural realities we face in attempts to improve the health of citizens in wildly different regions. Wolff ultimately finds that there is a path forward for proponents of the right to health, but to succeed they must embrace certain intellectual and practical changes. The Human Right to Health is a powerful and important contribution to the discourse on global health.

• Rank: #129178 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age

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Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
Manuel Castells (Author)
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This book is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, there is one thing they share in common: they are all interwoven inextricably with the creation of autonomous communication networks supported by the Internet and wireless communication.

In this timely and important book, Manuel Castells – the leading scholar of our contemporary networked society – examines the social, cultural and political roots of these new social movements, studies their innovative forms of self-organization, assesses the precise role of technology in the dynamics of the movements, suggests the reasons for the support they have found in large segments of society, and probes their capacity to induce political change by influencing people’s minds.

Based on original fieldwork by the author and his collaborators as well as secondary sources, this book provides a path-breaking analysis of the new forms of social movements, and offers an analytical template for advancing the debates triggered by them concerning the new forms of social change and political democracy in the global network society.

• Rank: #7529 in Books
• Published on: 2012-09-04
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x 5.51" w x .0" l, 1.10 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages