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Human Rights Quarterly, 2009
Oxford Scholarship Online
To study the staged performative transgressions of victims, sadistic cruelty borne by the desire ... more To study the staged performative transgressions of victims, sadistic cruelty borne by the desire on the part of perpetrators to witness the collective dying of victims, requires analytical orientations beyond those focused exclusively on motivations cast in rational or rationalizing, cognitive or purposive strategic terms. Performativity as a theoretical perspective establishes the explanatory relevance of the unconscious in appraising the dynamics of desire, shame, and sadistic cruelty among perpetrators. Various psychosocial perspectives may be adopted in this regard. Sadistic behaviors are not only cruel; they demand that the cruelty be displayed in the name of the laws of prohibition. Perpetrator behaviors in mass atrocity demonstrate the psychic elements of emotionality and fantasy, paranoia and obsession. Group dynamics in the macabresque ebb and flow in the subterranean tides of anxiety and psychic desire made manifest by reifications and sadistic hate, a central focus of stu...
Human Rights Quarterly, 2000
In recent years, the subjects of freedom of association, trade unions, and labor rights have rise... more In recent years, the subjects of freedom of association, trade unions, and labor rights have risen to fore of global attention. Voluntary corporate codes of conduct relating to sound labor practices-especially in the textiles, apparel, and garment industries-have proliferated to counter sweatshop practices all too prevalent throughout this sector. 1 Similarly, attempts to
Choice Reviews Online, 1989
The American Journal of Comparative Law, 1971
Do war crimes tribunals or truth commissions satisfy victims of war and atrocity and provide psyc... more Do war crimes tribunals or truth commissions satisfy victims of war and atrocity and provide psychological relief from war-induced trauma? Do they make victims less vengeful and less likely to engage in or support violent retribution? Or does the experience of post-conflict justice simply reinforce and exacerbate emotional and psychological suffering? Answers to these questions are central to the logic of truth-telling’s peace-promoting effects in post-authoritarian and post-war societies. Indeed, one of transitional justice’s core arguments is that victims of wartime abuse demand truth and justice. These arguments, however, assume that truth-telling processes, on average, provide psychological and emotional benefits to victims. Some critics have argued, however, that they actually cause more harm than good. Although victims’ preferences for truth and justice are well documented, we know considerably less about their actual impact. This article assesses that impact by surveying the ...
Chicago Kent Law Review, 1973
Oxford Scholarship Online
This chapter examines the Chinese Cultural Revolution not so much to “explain” why it happened. R... more This chapter examines the Chinese Cultural Revolution not so much to “explain” why it happened. Rather, it demonstrates the relevance of traditional values and certain child-rearing practices to psychosocial explanations of how mass atrocities were perpetrated. It focuses on the genocide of the Maoist revolution and its dystopian project of peasant collectivization. The Cultural Revolution was political in its imposition of the Communist Party structure throughout China; but it was also socioeconomic and thus essentially about food, its production and distribution at macrolevels of social organization and mobilization. During the Maoist revolution, macabresque transgressions had to be displayed, that is, performed before audiences comprised not only of perpetrators but also of community witnesses. Communal desire for vengeance over whatever was dramatized as “lost” represents a form of motivation relevant to explanations of sadism and its executions in the movement from filial piety...
Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945: Small State Diplomacy and Great Power Politics, 2015
... APPENDIX 2: EL PASO-JUAREZ AQUIFER MAP.....74 APPENDIX 3: SATELLITE IMAGE EL PASO-JUAREZ ....... more ... APPENDIX 2: EL PASO-JUAREZ AQUIFER MAP.....74 APPENDIX 3: SATELLITE IMAGE EL PASO-JUAREZ .....75 iv ... pollution into smaller areas, creating pollution havens (Cole and Ensign 2005) ...
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2009
This article focuses on representations of forgiveness as adopted or assumed by processes of coll... more This article focuses on representations of forgiveness as adopted or assumed by processes of collective amelioration experienced in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It seeks to demonstrate how each representative approach to forgiveness captures some of the torment, pain, and suffering of survivor and successor generations, but also that each fails to accommodate the depths and complexities of personal grief and collective mourning. Too often transnational justice in the aftermath of political evil becomes grounded in assumptions of justice, truth, and apology that are severely delimited. Such strategic and theoretical perspectives are insufficiently attuned to the needs of bereavement as a political form because they fail to promote social solace by means of collective atonement on the part of survivor and successor generations who inherit the legacies of sorrow. If political bereavement conducive to collective amelioration is to occur in any one polity, it should be legitimated by ...
The American Historical Review, 1974
... Turkish foreign policy, 1943-1945: Small state diplomacy and great power politics. Post a Com... more ... Turkish foreign policy, 1943-1945: Small state diplomacy and great power politics. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Weisband, Edward (b. 1939, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1973. ...
This has been another productive year for the section thanks to the hard work of many of our memb... more This has been another productive year for the section thanks to the hard work of many of our members. As program chair for the 2004-2005 meetings, Lee Ann Banaszak is putting together an exciting set of panels although our panel allocation continues to be relatively small. I am exploring various ways of addressing this problem. In the meanwhile given the importance of attendance to the allocation process, please be sure to attend at least two panels that are organized by Women and Politics at the next annual meetings.
Human Rights Quarterly, 2000
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
Human Rights Quarterly, 2009
Oxford Scholarship Online
To study the staged performative transgressions of victims, sadistic cruelty borne by the desire ... more To study the staged performative transgressions of victims, sadistic cruelty borne by the desire on the part of perpetrators to witness the collective dying of victims, requires analytical orientations beyond those focused exclusively on motivations cast in rational or rationalizing, cognitive or purposive strategic terms. Performativity as a theoretical perspective establishes the explanatory relevance of the unconscious in appraising the dynamics of desire, shame, and sadistic cruelty among perpetrators. Various psychosocial perspectives may be adopted in this regard. Sadistic behaviors are not only cruel; they demand that the cruelty be displayed in the name of the laws of prohibition. Perpetrator behaviors in mass atrocity demonstrate the psychic elements of emotionality and fantasy, paranoia and obsession. Group dynamics in the macabresque ebb and flow in the subterranean tides of anxiety and psychic desire made manifest by reifications and sadistic hate, a central focus of stu...
Human Rights Quarterly, 2000
In recent years, the subjects of freedom of association, trade unions, and labor rights have rise... more In recent years, the subjects of freedom of association, trade unions, and labor rights have risen to fore of global attention. Voluntary corporate codes of conduct relating to sound labor practices-especially in the textiles, apparel, and garment industries-have proliferated to counter sweatshop practices all too prevalent throughout this sector. 1 Similarly, attempts to
Choice Reviews Online, 1989
The American Journal of Comparative Law, 1971
Do war crimes tribunals or truth commissions satisfy victims of war and atrocity and provide psyc... more Do war crimes tribunals or truth commissions satisfy victims of war and atrocity and provide psychological relief from war-induced trauma? Do they make victims less vengeful and less likely to engage in or support violent retribution? Or does the experience of post-conflict justice simply reinforce and exacerbate emotional and psychological suffering? Answers to these questions are central to the logic of truth-telling’s peace-promoting effects in post-authoritarian and post-war societies. Indeed, one of transitional justice’s core arguments is that victims of wartime abuse demand truth and justice. These arguments, however, assume that truth-telling processes, on average, provide psychological and emotional benefits to victims. Some critics have argued, however, that they actually cause more harm than good. Although victims’ preferences for truth and justice are well documented, we know considerably less about their actual impact. This article assesses that impact by surveying the ...
Chicago Kent Law Review, 1973
Oxford Scholarship Online
This chapter examines the Chinese Cultural Revolution not so much to “explain” why it happened. R... more This chapter examines the Chinese Cultural Revolution not so much to “explain” why it happened. Rather, it demonstrates the relevance of traditional values and certain child-rearing practices to psychosocial explanations of how mass atrocities were perpetrated. It focuses on the genocide of the Maoist revolution and its dystopian project of peasant collectivization. The Cultural Revolution was political in its imposition of the Communist Party structure throughout China; but it was also socioeconomic and thus essentially about food, its production and distribution at macrolevels of social organization and mobilization. During the Maoist revolution, macabresque transgressions had to be displayed, that is, performed before audiences comprised not only of perpetrators but also of community witnesses. Communal desire for vengeance over whatever was dramatized as “lost” represents a form of motivation relevant to explanations of sadism and its executions in the movement from filial piety...
Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945: Small State Diplomacy and Great Power Politics, 2015
... APPENDIX 2: EL PASO-JUAREZ AQUIFER MAP.....74 APPENDIX 3: SATELLITE IMAGE EL PASO-JUAREZ ....... more ... APPENDIX 2: EL PASO-JUAREZ AQUIFER MAP.....74 APPENDIX 3: SATELLITE IMAGE EL PASO-JUAREZ .....75 iv ... pollution into smaller areas, creating pollution havens (Cole and Ensign 2005) ...
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2009
This article focuses on representations of forgiveness as adopted or assumed by processes of coll... more This article focuses on representations of forgiveness as adopted or assumed by processes of collective amelioration experienced in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It seeks to demonstrate how each representative approach to forgiveness captures some of the torment, pain, and suffering of survivor and successor generations, but also that each fails to accommodate the depths and complexities of personal grief and collective mourning. Too often transnational justice in the aftermath of political evil becomes grounded in assumptions of justice, truth, and apology that are severely delimited. Such strategic and theoretical perspectives are insufficiently attuned to the needs of bereavement as a political form because they fail to promote social solace by means of collective atonement on the part of survivor and successor generations who inherit the legacies of sorrow. If political bereavement conducive to collective amelioration is to occur in any one polity, it should be legitimated by ...
The American Historical Review, 1974
... Turkish foreign policy, 1943-1945: Small state diplomacy and great power politics. Post a Com... more ... Turkish foreign policy, 1943-1945: Small state diplomacy and great power politics. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Weisband, Edward (b. 1939, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1973. ...
This has been another productive year for the section thanks to the hard work of many of our memb... more This has been another productive year for the section thanks to the hard work of many of our members. As program chair for the 2004-2005 meetings, Lee Ann Banaszak is putting together an exciting set of panels although our panel allocation continues to be relatively small. I am exploring various ways of addressing this problem. In the meanwhile given the importance of attendance to the allocation process, please be sure to attend at least two panels that are organized by Women and Politics at the next annual meetings.
Human Rights Quarterly, 2000
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.