Why did they kill? [[electronic resource] ] : Cambodia in the shadow of genocide / / Alex Hinton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783386503321
• Autore: Hinton Alexander Laban
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005
• ISBN: 9786612763052; 1-282-76305-9; 1-59875-009-7; 9780520241789; 9781417545208; 1-4175-4520-8; 0-520-93794-5; 0-520-24178-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Collana: California series in public anthropology ; ; 11
• Disciplina: 959.604/2
• Soggetti: Political atrocities - Cambodia; Genocide - Cambodia; Cambodia Politics and government 1975-1979
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : in the shadow of genocide -- The prison without walls -- A head for an eye : Disproportionate Revenge -- Power, patronage, and suspicion -- In the shade of Pol Pot's umbrella -- The fire without smoke -- The DK social order -- Manufacturing difference -- The dark side of face and honor -- Conclusion : why people kill.
• Sommario/riassunto: Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds ; parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants-almost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.

Exposed science [[electronic resource] ] : genes, the environment, and the politics of population health / / Sara Shostak

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786185703321
• Autore: Shostak Sara
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95524-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 613/.1
• Soggetti: Environmental health - Political aspects; Health risk assessment; Pollution - Environmental aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Toxicology Is a Political Science" -- 2. The Consensus Critique -- 3. Susceptible Bodies -- 4. "Opening the Black Box of the Human Body" -- 5. Making a Molecular Regulatory Science -- 6. The Molecular is Political -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix A -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to the molecular level, in order to investigate gene-environment interactions. In Exposed Science, Sara Shostak ; analyzes the rise of gene-environment interaction in the environmental health sciences and examines its consequences for how we understand and seek to protect population health. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation, Shostak demonstrates that what we know - and what we don't know - about the vulnerabilities of our bodies to environmental hazards is profoundly shaped by environmental health scientists' efforts to address the structural vulnerabilities of their field. She then takes up the political effects of this research, both from the perspective of those who seek to establish genomic technologies as a new basis for environmental regulation, and from the perspective of environmental justice activists, who are concerned that that their efforts to redress the social, political, and economical inequalities that put people at risk of environmental exposure will be undermined by molecular explanations of environmental health and illness. Exposed Science thus offers critically important new ways of understanding and engaging with the emergence of gene-environment interaction as a focal concern of environmental health science, policy-making, and activism.