With Their Backs to the World

With Their Backs to the World

Author: Asne Seierstad

Publisher:

Published: 2006-11-07

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780465076024

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Uses interviews and extended personal contact to depict thirteen Serbian individuals and one Serbian family before and after the arrest of former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic.


Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities

Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities

Author: Carl Skutsch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 1510

ISBN-13: 1135193886

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This study of minorities involves the difficult issues of rights, justice, equality, dignity, identity, autonomy, political liberties, and cultural freedoms. The A-Z Encyclopedia presents the facts, arguments, and areas of contention in over 560 entries in a clear, objective manner. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities website.


Book of Peoples of the World

Book of Peoples of the World

Author: Wade Davis

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781426202384

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From the foremost authority on history and civilization comes the definitive guide to world cultures--showcasing human diversity in all its vast and startling richness. 235 color photographs and 37 maps.


Serbia

Serbia

Author: Marko Attila Hoare

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-05-15

Total Pages: 779

ISBN-13: 019776942X

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A definitive account of a fiercely independent Balkan people, whose fate was long shaped by the Great Powers.


Geography of the World's Major Regions

Geography of the World's Major Regions

Author: John Cole

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1134816936

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This volume presents a global view of today's most pressing issues through an analysis of the twelve major regions of the world. Environmental degradation, natural catastrophe, population pressures and human conflict all impact in different ways and to different degrees on the society and environment of these regions. Economic and political restructuring within each region is covered, and topics include: natural resources; agriculture; industry and services; the role of the military; and the impact of global economic change. This work is intended as an introduction for students studying the changing geography of the world, but should also provide a useful overview to students researching specific regions, seeking comparative analysis of regions, or following general courses on the economic and political geography of both the post-industrial and the developing worlds. Over 250 photographs, maps and figures complement a range of boxed case-studies, key points, questions and guides to further reading.


State of the World’s Minorities 2007

State of the World’s Minorities 2007

Author:

Publisher: Minority Rights Group

Published: 2007-03-04

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1904584594

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In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which proclaimed that ‘all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’. Sadly, for many minorities and indigenous peoples around the world, this inspirational text – with its emphasis on equality and non-discrimination – remains a dream, not a reality. Ethnic or sectarian tensions are evident in many parts of our globe. In places, they have boiled over into bitter violence. The Middle East situation continues to deteriorate – with some minority communities fearing for their very survival. In Africa, the crisis in Darfur is deepening as government-sponsored militia continues to carry out massive human rights abuses against traditional farming communities. In Europe, the spotlight has fallen on Muslim minorities – with rows flaring over the Danish cartoons and the wearing of the veil and burqa. Now more than ever, world leaders must insist that the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples be respected. The participation of minorities is essential if conflict is to be prevented and lasting peace is to be built. This second annual edition of the State of the World’s Minorities looks at the key developments over 2006 affecting the human rights and security of ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples. It includes: - a preface by the UN’s Independent Expert on Minority Issues - a unique statistical analysis of Peoples under Threat 2007 - a special focus on the participation of minorities, with analysis from leading academics on electoral representation and the European system - an eye-witness report from Sri Lanka on the impact on minorities of the resurgence of conflict - comprehensive, regional sections outlining the main areas of concern as well as any notable progress. The State of the World’s Minorities is an invaluable reference for policy-makers, academics, journalists and everyone who is interested in the conditions facing minorities and indigenous peoples around the world.


Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author: Uroš Čvoro

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0429640633

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At a time of dramatic struggles over monuments around the world, this book examines monuments that have been erected in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since 1996. Examining the historical precedents for the high rate of monumentbuilding, and its links to ongoing political instability and national animosity, this book identifies the culture of remembrance in BiH as symptomatic of a broader shift: a monumentalisation and privatisation of history. It provides an argument for how to account for the politics of contemporary nation-state formation, control of space, trauma and revisions of history in a region that has been subject to prolonged instability and crisis. This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, museum studies, war and conflict studies, and European studies.


Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities

Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities

Author: Marina Gržinić

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2022-03-09

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1527581659

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This volume takes as its starting point the question of whether there is a pluriversal generation, a younger group of scholars who do not necessarily collaborate or know each other, but who are currently forming a radical structure that is viral in thought production and reflective on the current global recalibration of social relations, brought about by the necropolitical and necrocapitalist governmentality emerging worldwide. The 23 articles assembled in this volume transcend geographical boundaries, conceive of the world as a single entity, and develop strategies for radical change. They are presented in five subchapters with two lines of demarcation, one for entry, invention, and potentiality, and the other for a grim threshold.