1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954346003321

Autore

Marouf Hasian

Titolo

Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures / / by Hasian Marouf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

9781349493746

1349493740

9781137437112

1137437111

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Rhetoric, Politics and Society

Disciplina

365.5

Soggetti

World politics

Comparative government

Imperialism

Economic development

Politics and war

Political History

Comparative Politics

Imperialism and Colonialism

Development Studies

Military and Defence Studies

Human Rights

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 The Biopolitical Usage of Colonial Camp Systems between 1896 and 1908 and the Quest for Restorative Justice; Talk of "Atrocities," European Regulation and Control of Imperial Violence, and the Rhetorical Framings of Colonial Human Rights Violations; Academic Worries about Comparative or Synchronic Genealogical Studies of Colonial Camps; A Brief Genealogy of Earlier Biopolitical and Thanatopolitical Studies of Colonial Camp Cultures; The Trajectory for



the Rest of the Book

2 General Valeriano Weyler, the Spanish "Reconcentración Policy," and American Calls for Military Intervention into CubaThe Two Cubas, Guerrilla Tactics, and Early Talk of Spanish Camp policies, 1868-1895; The Spanish Reconcentración Policy and General Weyler's Edicts; Contested Rhetorical Framings of Spanish Colonization in Cuba and the Reconcentración Camps; International Pressures and the Closing of the Reconcentración Camps; American Critiques of Weyler's Reconcentración Camp Policies; Conclusion; 3 The "Faded Flowers" and the Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War

Colonial Argumentation during the Early British "Concentration" Camp Years, March 1900 to June 1901Emily Hobhouse and the Creation of the Boer Concentration Camp Controversy, June 1901-June 1902; British Prowar Sentiment and the Containment of the Concentration Camp Controversies; Conclusion; 4 The German Konzentrationslager and the Debates about the Annihilation of the Herero, 1905-1908; Comparative Genealogical Studies, the Characterization of Hamakari/Waterberg, and the Treatment of the Herero and Nama before the Formation of the Konzentrationslager

Humanistic and Anti-humanistic Strands of German Imperialist Argumentation, and Their Deployment in Colonial ContextsContrasting Indigenous Responses to German Settlement and the Discourse of Rebellion; The Pursuit of German Colonial Victories at Hamakari/Waterberg (1904) and the Beginning of the Annihilation of the Herero; The Rhetorical Invention of German Konzentrationslager in German South-West Africa and the Continued Annihilation of the Herero; The Coercive Labor of the Work Camps and the Physical Destruction of the Herero and "Hottentot" (Nama)

The Shark Island "Death" Camp and the Formation of Genocidal GenealogiesThe Measurement and Appropriation of Herero and Nama Bodies, the Rise of German Racial Sciences, and the Afterlife of Iconic Materials for Anti-humanist Diatribes; Conclusion; 5 American "Concentration" Camp Debates and Selective Remembrances of the Philippine-American War; Forgotten American Camp Cultures, the Archives, and Contested Remembrances of the Philippine-American War; The Battle for Manila, the "Liberation" of the Filipinos from Spanish "Oppression," and the Formation of the First American Camps

Anti-Imperialist Critiques of Camps, American Expansionist Policies and the Discovery of the "Water Cure" Atrocities

Sommario/riassunto

The concentrations camps that existed in the colonised world at the turn of the 20th Century are a vivid reminder of the atrocities committed by imperial powers on indigenous populations. This study explores British, American and Spanish camp cultures, analysing debates over their legitimacy and current discussions on retributive justice.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967552803321

Autore

Haarmann Harald

Titolo

Language in its cultural embedding : explorations in the relativity of signs and sign systems / / by Harald Haarmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990

ISBN

9783110867541

3110867540

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in anthropological linguistics ; ; 4

Classificazione

ER 740

Disciplina

306/.4

Soggetti

Culture - Semiotic models

Language and culture

Signs and symbols

Anthropological linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Reality, models of reality and sign systems: Interaction in a culture-related context -- Chapter 2 The microstructure of the linguistic sign and its relation to cultural settings: A componential analysis of the process of signification -- Chapter 3 Language as a sigmatic fixative of reality: Parameters of semiotic relativity -- Chapter 4 Language as a semiotic seismograph of acculturation: The problem of variability in sign systems -- Chapter 5 The world of signs and applied semiotics: An interpretative approach to ancient and modern cultures -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- Index of names -- Backmatter



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Record Nr.

UNISA996704482703316

Titolo

Investigaciones educativas en argumentación y multimodalidad / María Teresa Caro Valverde, José Manuel de Amo Sánchez-Fortún y Maríateresa Martín Sánchez (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin [etc.], : Peter Lang, 2023

ISBN

978-3-631-90261-5

Descrizione fisica

392 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

410.72

Soggetti

Linguistica - Ricerca - Metodo

Collocazione

IV.2. 3052

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia