Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide?
Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide?

Author: John Cox

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1000437361

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Genocide denial not only abuses history and insults the victims but paves the way for future atrocities. Yet few, if any, books have offered a comparative overview and analysis of this problem. Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide? is a resource for understanding and countering denial. Denial spans a broad geographic and thematic range in its explorations of varied forms of denial—which is embedded in each stage of genocide. Ranging far beyond the most well-known cases of denial, this book offers original, pathbreaking arguments and contributions regarding: competition over commemoration and public memory in Ukraine and elsewhere transitional justice in post-conflict societies; global violence against transgender people, which genocide scholars have not adequately confronted; music as a means to recapture history and combat denial; public education’s role in erasing Indigenous history and promoting settler-colonial ideology in the United States; "triumphalism" as a new variant of denial following the Bosnian Genocide; denial vis-à-vis Rwanda and neighboring Congo (DRC). With contributions from leading genocide experts as well as emerging scholars, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, genocide studies, anthropology, political science, international law, gender studies, and human rights.

Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative
Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Author: Wilfried Ver Eecke

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0791482596

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Finalist for the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association It is often the case that painful truths emerge first in the form of denial; one needs to create distance from what is painful. In Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative Wilfried Ver Eecke constructs a comprehensive, lucid account of denial's psychological and philosophical dimensions while using Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles to help us understand this unavoidable aspect of human existence. Ver Eecke acknowledges Hegel's claim that the road to truth is not a path of doubt, but a highway of despair, and argues, via Hegel's ontology of the person, that denial can be understood as a desiring being's defense against despair. By examining the role of no-saying in children, Freud's claims about freedom of the will and its necessary prerequisites, and Sophocles' Oedipus, Ver Eecke demonstrates the idea that denial is connected with situations in which the self-image of a person is threatened. He concludes with a colleague's autobiography to highlight the deep, tragic experiences that denial covers, and the enormous psychic work required to overcome profound denial, with the ultimate reward of experiencing oneself as the fulfillment of the promise of life.

The Power of Denial
The Power of Denial

Author: Bernard Faure

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009-01-10

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 140082561X

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Innumerable studies have appeared in recent decades about practically every aspect of women's lives in Western societies. The few such works on Buddhism have been quite limited in scope. In The Power of Denial, Bernard Faure takes an important step toward redressing this situation by boldly asking: does Buddhism offer women liberation or limitation? Continuing the innovative exploration of sexuality in Buddhism he began in The Red Thread, here he moves from his earlier focus on male monastic sexuality to Buddhist conceptions of women and constructions of gender. Faure argues that Buddhism is neither as sexist nor as egalitarian as is usually thought. Above all, he asserts, the study of Buddhism through the gender lens leads us to question what we uncritically call Buddhism, in the singular. Faure challenges the conventional view that the history of women in Buddhism is a linear narrative of progress from oppression to liberation. Examining Buddhist discourse on gender in traditions such as that of Japan, he shows that patriarchy--indeed, misogyny--has long been central to Buddhism. But women were not always silent, passive victims. Faure points to the central role not only of nuns and mothers (and wives) of monks but of female mediums and courtesans, whose colorful relations with Buddhist monks he considers in particular. Ultimately, Faure concludes that while Buddhism is, in practice, relentlessly misogynist, as far as misogynist discourses go it is one of the most flexible and open to contradiction. And, he suggests, unyielding in-depth examination can help revitalize Buddhism's deeper, more ancient egalitarianism and thus subvert its existing gender hierarchy. This groundbreaking book offers a fresh, comprehensive understanding of what Buddhism has to say about gender, and of what this really says about Buddhism, singular or plural.

Justice Not Denied
Justice Not Denied

Author: Edward John Mastronardi

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1514481537

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This book tells the story of the impact of a program humanely disposing a massive inherited fortune of criminally generated wealth on both those trying to honourably accomplish this and others determined using every criminal means in their power violently preventing it. Carole Masters, a major protagonist in the novel Dancing around the Hill, now in her midthirties, still disarmingly attractive, once cruelly labelled by the press as the Black Widow, was in a disturbing quandary while in the process of launching a major program to charitably dispose her vast, completely unexpected inherited wealth. The huge fortune, unknowingly by her, had been accumulated by her late murdered lover she only knew as David Rosanoff, a successful, very wealthy businessman. In reality, he was Boris Aristine, the notorious head of a major European controlled drug syndicate and responsible for ordering the deaths of her husband, Scott Beaumont, and her Florentine lover, Niccolo Gregorian. Aristines responsibility for their shocking deaths was also not known by her until told of it by a Royal Canadian Mounted Polices chief inspector, Ronald Guthrie. Julius Silverberg, capo of the New York criminal Syndicate, now the head of its North American operation in Canada and the United States, was warned that a major attempt to close down the Syndicates operations in Canada was being financed by Carole Masterss inherited illegally generated Syndicate wealth. He decided taking action, enlisting the help of Francesco Gianni, the Montreal Syndicate capo, getting rid of the threat. It was a potential death warrant for Carole Masters and those helping her. The book relates how this transpired, was ultimately dealt with, and what happened to some of the storys main characters at the end.

Decade of Denial
Decade of Denial

Author: Herbert I. London

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780739102794

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Herbert London's new work places America in the 1990s under the microscope and discovers a country paying a heavy price for the excesses of the past, crippled by the cultural attitudes and rebelliousness of the sixties and seventies. London argues that the baby boomer generation has replaced openness with stealth and honesty with deceit. Far from mere nostalgic musings for a simpler time, Decade of Denial wonderfully captures the zeitgeist of the 1990s from the "dumbing down" of education to the proliferation of crass popular culture. This is an essential book for serious readers of American cultural history seeking to understand the evolution of modern 'manners' and 'morals'.

George Lisle: A Faith That Couldn't Be Denied
George Lisle: A Faith That Couldn't Be Denied

Author: Doreen Morrison

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-11-28

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1666740365

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George Lisle: A Faith That Couldn’t Be Denied documents the pioneers of a nation. Three generations of men and women who, led and inspired by the ministry of George Lisle, advocated for a nation, from enslavement to emancipation and beyond. This work offers insight into a people and a movement who, in facing the most heinous and violent conditions, demonstrated boldness, bravery, self-sacrifice, and faith beyond measure as they sought to achieve freedom for generations of people who they knew they would never meet.

Genius Denied
Genius Denied

Author: Jan Davidson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1416595686

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With all the talk of failing schools these days, we forget that schools can fail their brightest students, too. We pledge to "leave no child behind," but in American schools today, thousands of gifted and talented students fall short of their potential. In Genius Denied, Jan and Bob Davidson describe the "quiet crisis" in education: gifted students spending their days in classrooms learning little beyond how to cope with boredom as they "relearn" material they've already mastered years before. This lack of challenge leads to frustration, underachievement, and even failure. Some gifted students become severely depressed. At a time when our country needs a deep intellectual talent pool, the squandering of these bright young minds is a national tragedy. There are hundreds of thousands of highly gifted children in the U.S. and millions more whose intelligence is above average, yet few receive the education they deserve. Many school districts have no gifted programs or offer only token enrichment classes. Education of the gifted is in this sorry state, say the Davidsons, because of indifference, lack of funding, and the pernicious notion that education should have a "leveling" effect, a one-size-fits-all concept that deliberately ignores the needs of the gifted. But all children are entitled to an appropriate education, insist the authors, those left behind as well as those who want to surge ahead. The Davidsons show parents and educators how to reach and challenge gifted students. They offer practical advice based on their experience as founders of a nonprofit organization that assists gifted children. They show parents how to become their children's advocates, how to win support for gifted students within the local schools, and when and how to go outside the school system. They discuss everything from acceleration ("skipping" a grade) to homeschooling and finding mentors for children. They tell stories of real parents and students who overcame poor schooling environments to discover the joy of learning. Genius Denied is an inspiring book that provides a beacon of hope for children at risk of losing their valuable gift of intellectual potential.