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Torture
About: Torture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8173 publications have been published within this topic receiving 109895 citations.
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this article, a culture of resistance is established in Kenya, from resistance to elected power, and mass public support is a key element in the process of resistance to the regime.
Abstract: Contents: About the author Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Establishing a culture of resistance: theoretical perspectives Repression and resistance in Kenya: historical perspectives Knocking at the door: individual activism Opening the door: organizational activism Entering the bastille (peacefully): from resistance to elected power Mass public support: a key element in a culture of resistance Conclusion. Appendices: A: methodology B: human rights treaties in Kenya C: socio-economic profiles of Kenya D: repression and torture in Kenya Select bibliography Index.
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02 Aug 2007
TL;DR: A Matter that is No Matter: Religion, Color, and the White Actress in The Empress of Morocco and Xerxes as discussed by the authors, and When Race is Colored: Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko.
Abstract: Illustrations. Acknowledgments 1. Interrogating Torture and Finding Race 2. A Matter that is No Matter: Religion, Color, and the White Actress in The Empress of Morocco and Xerxes 3. When Race is Colored: Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko 4. Racializing Civility: The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards 5. Racializing Mercantilism: Amboyna: or, The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants 6. Combating Historical Amnesia: On the Images of Prisoner Abuse from Abu Ghraib. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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01 Jan 2016
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01 Aug 2014
TL;DR: We Shall Bear Witness as mentioned in this paper explores the connections and conversations between human rights and life writing through a dazzling, international collection of essays by survivor-writers, scholars, and human rights advocates.
Abstract: Personal testimonies are the life force of human rights work, and rights claims have brought profound power to the practice of life writing. This volume explores the connections and conversations between human rights and life writing through a dazzling, international collection of essays by survivor-writers, scholars, and human rights advocates.
In We Shall Bear Witness, editors Meg Jensen and Margaretta Jolly assemble moving personal accounts from those who have endured persecution, imprisonment, and torture; meditations on experiences of injustice and protest by creative writers and filmmakers; and innovative research on ways that digital media, commodification, and geopolitics are shaping what is possible to hear and say. The book’s primary sections—testimony, recognition, representation, and justice—evoke the key stages in turning experience into a human rights life story and attend to such diverse and varied arts as autobiography, documentary film, report, oral history, blog, and verbatim theater. The result is a groundbreaking book that sensitively examines how life and rights narratives have become so powerfully entwined. Also included is an innovative guide to teaching human rights and life narrative in the classroom.
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