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Book Giving Voice to the Silenced Victims

Download or read book Giving Voice to the Silenced Victims written by Li Eriksson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unexpected Grace

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  • Author : Gennifer Benjamin Brooks
  • Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
  • Release : 2012-07-01
  • ISBN : 0829819622
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Unexpected Grace written by Gennifer Benjamin Brooks and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is often difficult to comprehend for those in the pews. Even those who value preaching as an important element of their ministry are challenged when confronted with difficult texts. Brooks welcomes the challenge and offers methods aimed at developing sermons that allow the good news to shine through even the most difficult of Bible texts.

Book Crime Films

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  • Author : Thomas Leitch
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-08-15
  • ISBN : 9780521646710
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Crime Films written by Thomas Leitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the entire range of crime films, including important subgenres such as the gangster film, the private eye film, film noir, as well as the victim film, the erotic thriller, and the crime comedy. Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger. Analyzing how each of the subgenres establishes oppositions among its ritual antagonists, he shows how the distinctions among them become blurred throughout the course of the century. This blurring, Leitch maintains, reflects and fosters a deep social ambivalence towards crime and criminals, while the criminal, victim and avenger characters effectively map the shifting relations between subgenres, such as the erotic thriller and the police film, within the larger genre of crime film that informs them all.

Book Transforming State Responses to Feminicide

Download or read book Transforming State Responses to Feminicide written by Fiona Macaulay and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new, positive story from Latin America by tracing the transformation of state responses to feminicide in Brazil. It is the first single country study to examine how action by the women's movement has resulted in significant improvements in the investigation, prosecution and prevention of domestic violence and feminicide.

Book Bearing Witness

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  • Author : Stephanie N. Arel
  • Publisher : Fortress Press
  • Release : 2023-09-26
  • ISBN : 1506485464
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Stephanie N. Arel and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museum memorialization has long been about politics, design implications, and visitor experience--rarely focused upon the people mired in commemorating the dead. Profound challenges confront those who memorialize mass trauma at memorial museums. Listening to the voices of those called to do this work enables insight into the critical role they play in preserving and disseminating history's most painful narratives, expanding views of recovery from mass trauma, and revealing the value in the profession. As an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, Dr. Stephanie Arel recognized costs--psychological, spiritual, and physical--aligned with responding to mass trauma and participating in communal recovery. The impact of bearing witness at memorial museums emerged in the lives of workers. To explore the phenomenon, she visited Auschwitz, interviewing those who remember the Holocaust's horrors while resisting its infiltration in their personal lives. The immensity of honoring the dead for others inspired additional sojourns in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Israel, South Africa, and the United States. She discovered dimensions of pride and care evident in those who honor memory: the capacity of workers to address reverberating political tensions, while tending to visitor needs; the passion workers have for giving voice to the voiceless who died during traumatic events, while offering care and support to the survivors; and the reality that reassembling the fragments of mass trauma is not for the weary, but instead emerges as a calling and a vocation. Bearing Witness places value on what workers do, opening space for workers' testimonies to be heard for the first time and creating a global community of and for these workers, who have otherwise never been given a platform to speak about their experiences. The interviews reveal the entanglement of politics with commemoration, the sacredness of remembering, and the multidimensional aspects of care, transforming the reader's understanding of humanity forever.

Book    The Time Is Fulfilled

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  • Author : Lynne Moss Bahr
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-12-27
  • ISBN : 0567684377
  • Pages : 159 pages

Download or read book The Time Is Fulfilled written by Lynne Moss Bahr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Lynne Moss Bahr explores the concept of temporality as central to Jesus's proclamation of the Kingdom of God. Using insights from continental philosophy on the messianic, which expose the false claim that time progresses in a linear continuum, Bahr presents these philosophical positions in critical dialogue with the sayings of Jesus regarding time and time's fulfillment. She shows how the Kingdom represents the possibilities of a disruption in time, one that reveals the intrinsic relation between God and humanity. In illustrating how Jesus's sayings regarding time are thus expressions of his messianic identity-as of the world and not of the world--Bahr argues that the meaning of Jesus's identity as Messiah is embedded in the disjuncture of time, in the impossibility of "now," from which the Kingdom comes . Bahr's use of critical theory in this study expands the concept of God's Kingdom beyond the traditional confines of the discipline.

Book Preventing Crime

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  • Author : Rick Sarre
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9819734886
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Preventing Crime written by Rick Sarre and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Societies in Transition

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  • Author : Carolina Rehrmann
  • Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  • Release : 2020-01-20
  • ISBN : 3647522066
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Societies in Transition written by Carolina Rehrmann and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions have been faced with multiple upheavals of interethnic violence, bloody secessions and ethnic cleansing. Up to the present, both regions are confronted with unresolved border, minority and security issues, matters of recognition, protracted traumata and claims for justice. After the fall of the iron curtain, simmering ethnic tensions turned into hot wars that created new states, new power-political hierarchies and a heritage of violence. Reaching back to the early 1990s, several international and national transitional justice measures have been applied to face these heritages and lay the foundations for a common future. For the former Yugoslavia, they range from broad criminal trials to a series of restorative justice mechanisms; in the North and South Caucasus they encompass numerous mediation measures and primarily restorative justice efforts. The present volume is concerned with strategies of conflict resolution and prevention subsumed under the concept of reconciliation. It aims at understanding the socio-emotional root causes of political cleavages and daily realities of (post-) conflict societies, especially regarding the impact of competing narratives and unprocessed pasts on exclusive identities and strategic political choices. Applying reconciliation theory, insights from collective memory and transitional justice to a series of selected field studies, it sheds light on the origins of interethnic violence, aims at finding explanations for the fact that many of the above-mentioned conflicts have become intractable and discusses the chances and challenges for transforming interests, emotions, perspectives, roles and identities between and within the respective societies.

Book Remembering Mass Violence

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  • Author : Steven High
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2014-02-05
  • ISBN : 1442666595
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Remembering Mass Violence written by Steven High and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, survivors of mass violence, and performers and artists who have created works based on these events. This anthology is global in focus, with essays on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. At its core is a productive tension between public and private memory, a dialogue between autobiography and biography, and between individual experience and societal transformation. Remembering Mass Violence will appeal to oral historians, digital practitioners and performance-based artists around the world, as well researchers and activists involved in human rights research, migration studies, and genocide studies.

Book David Mitchell

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  • Author : Wendy Knepper
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-07-25
  • ISBN : 1474262120
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book David Mitchell written by Wendy Knepper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Mitchell is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in contemporary global writing. Novels such as Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks demonstrate the author's dazzling literary technique in an oeuvre that crosses genres, genders and borders, moving effortlessly through time and space. David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary fiction to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, including discussions of all of his novels to-date plus his shorter fictions, essays and libretti. As well as offering extended coverage of Mitchell's most popular work, Cloud Atlas, the authors explore Mitchell's genre-hopping techniques, world-making aesthetics, and engagements with key contemporary issues such as globalization, empire, the environment, disability, trauma and technology. In addition, this book includes an expansive interview with David Mitchell as well as a guide to further reading to help students and readers alike explore the works of this tremendously inventive writer.

Book Giving Victims Voices

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  • Author : Chilanda D. Sims
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-04-13
  • ISBN : 9780692877968
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Giving Victims Voices written by Chilanda D. Sims and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GIVING VICTIMS VOICES tells the story of five women of all ages and from various walks of life, who are survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse. Abuse comes in many forms and has no preference to gender, race, color or age and often identifies itself as "Love." These women, like many others, are the voices of faith, strength, integrity and courage. This book will encourage and allow you, the reader, to write your thoughts and feelings about the violence and abuse you have been subjected to that has kept you silent up to now and it will compel you to begin the process of forgiveness, healing and breaking the silence to hearing your voice again. They are Overcomers! You are an Overcomer! We are Overcomers!

Book Predatory Priests  Silenced Victims

Download or read book Predatory Priests Silenced Victims written by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church captured headlines and mobilized public outrage in January 2002. But much of the commentary that immediately followed was reductionistic, focusing on single "causes" of clerical abuse such as mandatory celibacy, homosexuality, sexual repressiveness or sexual permissiveness, anti-Catholicism, and a decadent secular culture. Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church, a collection of groundbreaking articles edited by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea and Virginia Goldner, eschews such one-size-fits-all theorizing. In its place, the abuse situation is explored in all its troubling complexity, as contributors take into account the experiences, respectively, of the victim/survivor, the abuser/perpetrator, and the bystander (whether family member, professional/clergy, or the community at large). Setting polemics to the side, Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims provides a sober and sobering analysis of the interlacing historical, doctrinal, and psychological issues that came together in the sexual abuse scandal. It is mandatory reading for all who seek thoughtful, informed commentary on a crisis long in the making and yet to be resolved.

Book Memory  Politics and Identity

Download or read book Memory Politics and Identity written by C. McGrattan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of how to move beyond contentious pasts exercises societies across the globe. Focusing on Northern Ireland, this book examines how historical injustices continue to haunt contemporary lives, and how institutional and juridical approaches to 'dealing' with the past often give way to a silencing consensus or re-marginalising victims.

Book Transformative Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leora Yedida Bilsky
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2009-12-11
  • ISBN : 0472024922
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Transformative Justice written by Leora Yedida Bilsky and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic? Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance extends far beyond Israel's borders. Drawing on the latest work in philosophy, law, history, and rhetoric, Bilsky exposes the many narratives that compete in a political trial and demonstrates how Israel's history of social and ideological conflicts in the courtroom offers us a rare opportunity to understand the meaning of political trials. The result is a bold new perspective on the politics of justice and its complex relationship to the values of liberalism. Leora Bilsky is Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University.

Book Theorizing Transitional Justice

Download or read book Theorizing Transitional Justice written by Claudio Corradetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of transitional justice, something that has hitherto been lacking both in study and practice. With the common goal of clarifying some of the theoretical profiles of transitional justice strategies, the study is organized along crucial intersections evaluating aspects connected to the genealogy, the nature, the scope and the most appropriate methodology for the study of transitional justice. The chapters also take up normative and political considerations pertaining to specific transitional instruments such as war crime tribunals, truth commissions, administrative purges, reparations, and historical commissions. Bringing together some of the most original writings from established experts as well as from promising young scholars in the field, the collection will be an essential resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in Law, Philosophy, Politics, and Sociology.

Book Mined lives  25 years

Download or read book Mined lives 25 years written by Gervasio Sánchez and published by Blume. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] A heartfelt cry against terrible injustice and daily tragedy: how the everlasting physical injuries that severed their bodies affect these wounded people". An ongoing project of the most current photojournalism, like the infinite aftereffects caused by antipersonnel mines. Gervasio Sánchez has been working with victims of this scourge since September 1995, a job that has been running through most of his professional life. The devastation the mines cause is lifelong. The eleven victims in this project were selected randomly in African countries such as Angola and Mozambique; in Asian countries like Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Iraq; El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Colombia in Latin America; and European countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina. "Gervasio knows we need the wounded voices if we hope to write the complete history. And to do so, it is vital to advocate, faced with the hate that mines, the courage that observes." Irene Vallejo (Foreword)