Beyond Complicity

Author : Francine Banner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520394247

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An ambitious study of our obsession with complicity that shows how we can all become "good accomplices." Beyond Complicity is a fascinating cultural diagnosis that identifies our obsession with complicity as a symptom of a deeply divided society. The questions surrounding what it means to be legally complicit are the same ones we may ask ourselves as we evaluate our own and others' responsibility for inherited and ongoing harms, such as racism, sexism, and climate change: What does it mean that someone "knew" they were contributing to wrongdoing? How much involvement must a person have in order to be complicit? At what point are we obligated to intervene? Francine Banner ties together pop culture, politics, law, and social movements to provide a framework for thinking about what we know intuitively: that our society is defined by crisis, risk, and the quest to root out hazards at all costs. Engaging with legal cases, historical examples, and contemporary case studies, Beyond Complicity unfolds the complex role that complicity plays in US law and society today, offering suggestions for how to shift focus away from blame and toward positive, lasting systemic change.

Author : Francine Banner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Accomplices
ISBN : 9780520394230

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An ambitious study of our obsession with complicity that shows how we can all become "good accomplices." Beyond Complicity is a fascinating cultural diagnosis that identifies our obsession with complicity as a symptom of a deeply divided society. The questions surrounding what it means to be legally complicit are the same ones we may ask ourselves as we evaluate our own and others' responsibility for inherited and ongoing harms, such as racism, sexism, and climate change: What does it mean that someone "knew" they were contributing to wrongdoing? How much involvement must a person have in order to be complicit? At what point are we obligated to intervene? Francine Banner ties together pop culture, politics, law, and social movements to provide a framework for thinking about what we know intuitively: that our society is defined by crisis, risk, and the quest to root out hazards at all costs. Engaging with legal cases, historical examples, and contemporary case studies, Beyond Complicity unfolds the complex role that complicity plays in US law and society today, offering suggestions for how to shift focus away from blame and toward positive, lasting systemic change.

Author : Michael Rothberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781503609600

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The Implicated Subject by Michael Rothberg Pdf

“A pathbreaking meditation . . . shifts the discussion . . . from . . . notions of guilt and innocence to the complexities of responsibility and accountability.” —Amir Eshel, Stanford University When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject. The Implicated Subject builds on the comparative, transnational framework of Rothberg's influential work on memory to engage in reflection and analysis of cultural texts, archives, and activist movements from such contested zones as transitional South Africa, contemporary Israel/Palestine, post-Holocaust Europe, and a transatlantic realm marked by the afterlives of slavery. An array of globally prominent artists, writers, and thinkers—from William Kentridge, Hito Steyerl, and Jamaica Kincaid, to Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, Judith Butler, and the Combahee River Collective—speak show how confronting our own implication in difficult histories can lead to new forms of internationalism and long-distance solidarity. “A significant work by a major scholar . . . .While drawing on a global range of histories and texts, the book never loses focus on the contemporary moment.” —Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London “Offer[s] a fresh vocabulary to confront our personal and collective responsibility in the face of massive political violence, past and present.” —Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University

Author : Marina Aksenova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509900091

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Complicity in International Criminal Law by Marina Aksenova Pdf

This book tackles one of the most contentious aspects of international criminal law – the modes of liability. At the heart of the discussion is the quest for balance between the accused's individual contribution and the collective nature of mass offending. The principle of legality demands that there exists a well-defined link between the crime and the person charged with it. This is so even in the context of international offending, which often implies 'several degrees of separation' between the direct perpetrator and the person who authorises the atrocity. The challenge is to construct that link without jeopardising the interests of justice. This monograph provides the first comprehensive treatment of complicity within the discipline and beyond. Extensive analysis of the pertinent statutes and jurisprudence reveals gaps in interpreting accessorial liability. Simultaneously, the study of complicity becomes a test for the general methods and purposes of international criminal law. The book exposes problems with the sources of law and demonstrates the absence of clearly defined sentencing and policy rationales, which are crucial tools in structuring judicial discretion. Awarded The Paul Guggenheim Prize in International Law 2017!

Author : Colleen M. O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015062852317

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Working the Navajo Way by Colleen M. O'Neill Pdf

"O'Neill chronicles a history of Navajo labor that illuminates how cultural practices and values influenced what it meant to work for wages or to produce commodities for the marketplace. Through accounts of Navajo coal miners, weavers, and those who left the reservation in search of wage work, she explores the tension between making a living the Navajo way and "working elsewhere.""--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael S. Weisbach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691216584

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The Economist’s Craft by Michael S. Weisbach Pdf

An incisive guide that helps up-and-coming economists become successful scholars The Economist's Craft introduces graduate students and rising scholars to the essentials of research, writing, and other critical skills for a successful career in economics. Michael Weisbach enables you to become more effective at communicating your ideas, emphasizing the importance of choosing topics that will have a lasting impact. He explains how to write clearly and compellingly, present and publish your findings, navigate the job market, and more. Walking readers through each stage of a research project, Weisbach demonstrates how to develop research around a theme so that the value from a body of work is more than the sum of its individual papers. He discusses how to structure each section of an academic article and describes the steps that follow the completion of an initial draft, from presenting and revising to circulating and eventually publishing. Weisbach reveals how to get the most out of graduate school, how the journal review process works, how universities decide promotions and tenure, and how to manage your career and continue to seek out rewarding new opportunities. A how-to guide for the aspiring economist, The Economist's Craft covers a host of important issues rarely taught in the graduate classroom, providing readers with the tools and insights they need to succeed as professional scholars.

Author : Anne Farrow,Joel Lang,Jenifer Frank
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307414793

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Complicity by Anne Farrow,Joel Lang,Jenifer Frank Pdf

A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery “The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco Chronicle The North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative Triangle Trade of molasses, rum, and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa. It also discloses the reality of Northern empires built on tainted profits—run, in some cases, by abolitionists—and exposes the thousand-acre plantations that existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut. Here, too, are eye-opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly from slavery far from the Mason-Dixon line. Culled from long-ignored documents and reports—and bolstered by rarely seen photos, publications, maps, and period drawings—Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light on America’s past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : International law
ISBN : UCSD:31822036703908

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International Legal Materials by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hans Steinm
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857458919

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Communities of Complicity by Hans Steinm Pdf

Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China. Drawing on descriptions of village life, interspersed with targeted theoretical analyses, the author examines how ordinary people construct their own senses of their lives and their futures in everyday activities: building houses, working, celebrating marriages and funerals, gambling and dealing with local government. The villagers confront moral uncertainty; they creatively harmonize public discourse and local practice; and sometimes they resolve incoherence and unease through the use of irony. In so doing, they perform everyday ethics and re-create transient moral communities at a time of massive social dislocation.

Author : Kenneth R. Chase,Alan Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111908252

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Must Christianity be Violent? by Kenneth R. Chase,Alan Jacobs Pdf

Powerful essays by Stanley Hauerwas, Richard Mouw, Mark Noll and others challenge the accusation that Christianity is inherently violent.

Author : United Nations. International Law Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : International law
ISBN : OSU:32437011153547

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Yearbook of the International Law Commission by United Nations. International Law Commission Pdf

Author : Linda Morin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 0991776623

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The Courage to Look Beyond by Linda Morin Pdf

Three years. Not really a long time, but when one's life is turned upside down, over and over again, when one battles a life-threatening disease, cancer, undergoes several surgeries, experiences loss, pain, conflict and much more, one wonders if the three years is more like an eternity. For Linda Morin, those three years were the most traumatic and life-sapping years of her life. And, yet, she came through it all with great courage. She fought her battle with cancer, her battle with difficult relationships, her battle with custody issues, her battle against her son's medical problems. Linda is a strong person. She had to be to survive; and she is a survivor. Follow Linda' s journey to wellness in her heartrending story, The Courage to Look Beyond. Learn, with Linda, how a woman can accept herself with or without breasts.

Author : Mary Fulbrook,Bastiaan Willems,Stephanie Bird,Stefanie Rauch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350327795

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Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond by Mary Fulbrook,Bastiaan Willems,Stephanie Bird,Stefanie Rauch Pdf

Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond analyses perpetration and complicity under National Socialism and beyond. Contributors based in the UK, the USA, Canada, Germany, Israel and Chile reflect on self-understandings, representations and narratives of involvement in collective violence both at the time and later – a topic that remains highly relevant today. Using the notion of 'compromised identities' to think about contentious questions relating to empathy and complicity, this inter-disciplinary collection addresses the complex relationships between people's behaviours and self-understandings through and beyond periods of collective violence. Contributors explore the compromises that individuals, states and societies enter into both during and after such violence. Case studies highlight patterns of complicity and involvement in perpetration, and analyse how people's stories evolve under changing circumstances and through social interaction, using varying strategies of justification, denial and rationalisation. Each chapter also considers the ways in which contemporary responses and scholarly practices may be affected by engagement with perpetrator representations.

Author : Betina Bostick Henig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Existentialism
ISBN : MSU:31293017806690

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Beyond Being and Nothingness by Betina Bostick Henig Pdf

Author : Cullen Goldblatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000195200

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Beyond Collective Memory by Cullen Goldblatt Pdf

Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, this book argues that the metaphor of collective memory has obscured the structural character of colonial and apartheid violence, and made it difficult to explore the complicit positions that structures of violence produce. In investigating the elisions of memory discourses, Beyond Collective Memory challenges the dominance of collective memory, and calls attention to the African pasts, metaphors, and imaginaries that exist beyond it.