Impossible Witnesses

Author : Dwight McBride
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814764169

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Impossible Witnesses by Dwight McBride Pdf

Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the truth" about slavery? Impossible Witnesses explores these questions through a study of fiction, poetry, essays, and slave narratives from the abolitionist era. Linking the racialized discourses of slavery and Romanticism, it boldly calls for a reconfiguration of U.S. and British Romanticism that places slavery at its center. Impossible Witnesses addresses some of the major literary figures and representations of slavery in light of discourses on natural rights and law, offers an account of Foucauldian discourse analysis as it applies to the problem of "bearing witness," and analyzes specific narratives such as "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," and "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano." A work of great depth and originality, Impossible Witnesses renders traditional interpretations of Romanticism impossible and places Dwight A. McBride at the forefront of studies in race and literature.

Author : Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501735080

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The Moral Witness by Carolyn J. Dean Pdf

The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s—covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture.

Author : Allissa V. Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190935528

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Bearing Witness While Black by Allissa V. Richardson Pdf

"Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement--through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities--using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women and children at disproportionate rates. This groundbreaking book reveals how the perfect storm of smartphones, social media and social justice empowered Black activists to create their own news outlets, which continued a centuries-long, African American tradition of using the news to challenge racism. Bearing Witness While Black is the first book of its kind to identify three overlapping eras of domestic terror against African American people--slavery, lynching and police brutality--and explain how storytellers during each period documented its atrocities through journalism. What results is a stunning genealogy--of how the slave narratives of the 1700s inspired the Abolitionist movement; how the black newspapers of the 1800s galvanized the anti-lynching and Civil Rights movements; and how the smartphones of today have powered the anti-police brutality movement. This lineage of black witnessing, Allissa V. Richardson teaches us, is formidable and forever evolving. Richardson's own activism, as an award-winning pioneer of smartphone journalism, informs this text deeply. She weaves in personal accounts of her teaching in the US and Africa--and of her own brushes with police brutality--to share how she has inspired black youth to use mobile devices, to speak up from the margins. It is from this vantage point, as participant-observer, that she urges us not to become numb to the tragic imagery that African Americans have documented. Instead, Bearing Witness While Black conveys a crucial need to protect our right to look--into the forbidden space of violence against black bodies--and to continue to regard the smartphone as an instrument of moral suasion and social change"--

Author : Frederik Tygstrup,Ulrik Ekman
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Atrocities in literature
ISBN : 9788763504256

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Witness by Frederik Tygstrup,Ulrik Ekman Pdf

Witness is an anthology comprising 40 critical essays from an international cast of researchers who engage with a complex set of questions concerning notions of witnessing and attestation in 20th- and 21st-century Western culture. The contributors provide insightful perspectives on the subject of witnessing and suggest how this vital yet relatively unexplored concept lends itself to a wide range of media and subject areas. The essays critically reconsider existing scholarly tendencies which focus on historical evidence and the witness' vocalization of true remembrance. They do this by establishing important links with canonical texts, images, and voices within a theoretical and interpretive framework where questions of mediation, memorization, and representation are addressed.

Author : Robert Horne,John Mullen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781118654354

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The Expert Witness in Construction by Robert Horne,John Mullen Pdf

The role of the expert witness has long been important in the resolution of construction disputes. The specialist opinion brought by the expert can aid understanding and interpretation of the facts of the dispute, and may be influential in deciding the outcome. The variety of dispute resolution procedures and the requirement for the expert witness to be independent places a heavy burden on the parties to identify and instruct an appropriate expert, and on the expert to ensure they discharge their duty in the correct manner. The Expert Witness in Construction explains, in practical terms, the way in which experts work with particular reference to the construction industry. Within this book the Expert's role is explained in legal and practical terms as a progression from understanding the basic principles by which Experts can be identified, through appointment, to giving evidence before a tribunal. At every stage commentary is given to: help and guide professionals new to the arena of expert evidence; act as a resource for those already acting as Experts; assist party representatives looking for best practice guidance on the instruction of Experts; and provide parties to disputes information on what they should expect from the Expert they appoint to explain the issues in the case. Covering all the implications of identifying, appointing, instructing and relying on experts, it will help the reader to understand why experts are instructed in the way they are, how to identify the expert that is right for a particular case and how evidence should be presented. Written by a practicing lawyer and a consultant with extensive experience of acting as an expert witness, the requirements of both the lawyer and expert are discussed. As such, it will help both parties to understand each other resulting in a closer, more productive working relationship.

Author : Patrick R. Anderson,L. Thomas Winfree Jr.
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791494899

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Expert Witnesses by Patrick R. Anderson,L. Thomas Winfree Jr. Pdf

For the first time a book documents the judicial system's new dependence on social science testimony, especially that rendered by sociologists and criminologists. In Expert Witnesses contributors show that unlike traditional forensics testimony, the intrusion of social science data into judicial decision-making has relatively recent origins. It details the uses and abuses of social science experts, and the ethical and pragmatic concerns raised by their testimony. This timely collection will appeal to a diverse audience, including attorneys, judges, and students of judicial proceedings. Included in this volume are historical examinations of the expert witnessing phenomenon, the legal, social, and ethical debates regarding the appropriate role of such witnesses, and anecdotal descriptions by eminent social science experts. The authors address such pragmatic issues as an attorney's perspective on finding the most appropriate expert or formulating the "best" questions to ask in court, and an expert's perspective on getting aid or terminating a nonworking attorney-expert relationship.

Author : Darrell L. Guder
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802800513

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Be My Witnesses by Darrell L. Guder Pdf

What is the church's mission in the world? What message does it proclaim, and who is to proclaim it? The mission, says Darrell Guder in this book, is to complete the work of salvation that God began in the incarnation of his son Jesus Christ. The message is the gospel -- the good news of the incarnate Christ. And the messengers are the Body of Christ -- the church -- who have been called to be his witnesses. Only as we understand Christ's incarnation and the church's role in proclaiming its meaning, according to Guder, can we understand our calling to be witnesses of God's salvation.

Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538119525

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Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses by George D. Chryssides Pdf

Originating from a small group of Bible students who met under Charles Taze Russell’s leadership and grew into an international Society, to which the second leader Joseph Franklin Rutherford and gave the name ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’. Two World Wars shaped Watch Tower attitudes to civil government, armed conflict, and medical innovations such as blood transfusion, as well as to mainstream churches. The twenty-first century has seen some important changes in the Watch Tower organization, and coverage is given to changes in organizational structure, its use of the World Wide Web, and its major relocation from Brooklyn to Warwick. This updated second edition of Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key concepts, themes, and people relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Jehovah's Witnesses.

Author : Thomas Sherlock
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066093372

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Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus by Thomas Sherlock Pdf

"Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus" by Thomas Sherlock was written as a courtroom-like case about the resurrection of Jesus. Written in response to Woolston's claims of the matter, this book took a more agnostic approach that presented facts and evidence that, perhaps, the biblical story isn't quite as realistic as many prominent deists to this day might lead one to believe.

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781536004465

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The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1932-1949, volume 1 by Witness Lee Pdf

The contents of this volume are divided into five sections, as follows: 1. Seventeen letters written from August 27, 1932, through July 15, 1935. These letters were published in the periodical Collection of Newsletters in November 1933 through July 1935 and are included in this volume under the same title. 2. Three articles written from July through September 1934. These articles were published in the periodical The Glad Tidings and are included in this volume under the title The Glad Tidings, 1934. 3. Thirty-two articles and reports published in the periodical The Christian from 1934 through 1940. These articles are included in this volume under the same title. 4. A message given in an unknown location in 1936. This message is included in this volume under the title Concerning the Human Living of the Believers. 5. Twelve letters written from December 9, 1937, through June 5, 1939. These letters were published in the periodical The Open Door in January 1938 through June 5, 1939, and are included in this volume under the same title.

Author : Steffi de Jong
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785339035

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The Witness as Object by Steffi de Jong Pdf

In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance are now integral to the collections and research activities of museums. They have also become important components in narrative and exhibition design strategies. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time the new global phenomenon of the "musealization" of the witness to history, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.

Author : Kia Lindroos,Frank Möller
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847409731

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Art as a Political Witness by Kia Lindroos,Frank Möller Pdf

The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555023347

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The Organon by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edmond C. Gruss
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Jehovah's Witnesses
ISBN : 9781931232302

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Jehovah's Witnesses by Edmond C. Gruss Pdf

Author : Jane Blocker
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780816654765

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Seeing Witness by Jane Blocker Pdf

The act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture is increasingly dominated by surveillance, the witness--whether artist, historian, scientist, government official, or ordinary citizen--has become empowered in realms from art to politics. In Seeing Witness, Jane Blocker challenges the implicit authority of witnessing through the examination of a series of contemporary artworks, all of which make the act of witnessing visible, open to inspection and critique.