Seeing Human Rights
Seeing Human Rights

Author: Sandra Ristovska

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0262542536

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As video becomes an important tool to expose injustice, an examination of how human rights organizations are seeking to professionalize video activism. Visual imagery is at the heart of humanitarian and human rights activism, and video has become a key tool in these efforts. The Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, the Green Movement in Iran, and Black Lives Matter in the United States have all used video to expose injustice. In Seeing Human Rights, Sandra Ristovska examines how human rights organizations are seeking to professionalize video activism through video production, verification standards, and training. The result, she argues, is a proxy profession that uses human rights videos to tap into journalism, the law, and political advocacy. Ristovska explains that this proxy profession retains some tactical flexibility in its use of video while giving up on the more radical potential and imaginative scope of video activism as a cultural practice. Drawing on detailed analysis of legal cases and videos as well as extensive interviews with staff members of such organizations as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, WITNESS, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ristovska considers the unique affordances of video and examines the unfolding relationships among journalists, human rights organizations, activists, and citizens in global crisis reporting. She offers a case study of the visual turn in the law; describes advocacy and marketing strategies; and argues that the transformation of video activism into a proxy profession privileges institutional and legal spaces over broader constituencies for public good.

Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State

Author: James C. Scott

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0300252986

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“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University

Beyond Human
Beyond Human

Author: Gregory Benford

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-12-09

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780765310835

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Live longer, live stronger, with scientific enhancements and the wonders of technology

How to Pass as Human
How to Pass as Human

Author: Nic Kelman

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1630082430

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How to Pass as Human is an attempt on the part of the world's first android to understand the irrational, unpredictable, eclectic creatures known as human beings. Written in the form of a field guide, complete with sketches, graphs, flowcharts, and other reference materials, Android Zero (aka "Zach") has compiled a variety of useful information for future androids on how to pass undetected as human beings. Along the way, he also attempts to solve the mystery of his own creation with the help of Andrea, a human female who has taken an interest in him that may be more than friendly, and eventually leading him to "meet his maker" and discover the surprising purpose of his existence.

Seeming Human
Seeming Human

Author: Megan Ward

Publisher:

Published: 2018-08-23

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780814213759

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Finds a new theory of Victorian realist character in the mid-twentieth-century emergence of artificial intelligence.

New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care
New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care

Author: Miquel Domènech

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317087941

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New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care provides the latest practice-oriented qualitative research and innovative conceptual discussions of how health and health care systems are currently dealing with complex transformations and varied reforms. Exploring and analysing the social and cultural impact of new technologies, this book examines the societal relevance of new technologies of care and the manner in which technological innovations configure and reconfigure institutionalized spaces of care. It addresses issues of social control, accountability, surveillance and disciplining; diverging patterns of inclusion and exclusion; new relations and subjectivities of patients and care givers; the relation between private and public forms of care and the practices and concerns generated by new technologies at the individual as well as the societal level. Presenting sophisticated theoretical discussions and detailed empirical case studies, New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care analyses, compares and evaluates on a transnational level the role and impact of (assistive) technologies for elderly and disabled people on the concepts and practices of spaces of care. A critical understanding of contemporary practices of care, that cuts through the growing conceptual barriers between social and medical models of care studies, this book will be of interest to those interested in new technologies, health care and social space of care. Specifically, it will appeal to scholars of science and technology studies, medical sociology and the sociology of the body, social inequality and exclusion, health and care studies, gerontology and disability studies.

The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film
The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film

Author: Timothy Iles

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 900417138X

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This study, from a variety of analytical approaches, examines ways in which contemporary Japanese film presents a critical engagement with Japan's project of modernity to demonstrate the 'crisis' in conceptions of identity. The work discusses gender, the family, travel, the 'everyday' as horror, and ways in which animated films can offer an ideal space in which an ideal conception of identity may emerge and thrive. It presents close, theoretically-informed textual analyses of the thematic issues contemporary Japanese films raise, through a wide range of genres, from comedy, family drama, and animation, to science fiction and horrror by directors such as Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Morita Yoshimitsu, Miike Takashi, Oshii Mamoru, Kon Satoshi, and Miyazaki Hayao, in language that is accessible but precise.

History and Nature in the Enlightenment
History and Nature in the Enlightenment

Author: Nathaniel Wolloch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1317121724

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The mastery of nature was viewed by eighteenth-century historians as an important measure of the progress of civilization. Modern scholarship has hitherto taken insufficient notice of this important idea. This book discusses the topic in connection with the mainstream religious, political, and philosophical elements of Enlightenment culture. It considers works by Edward Gibbon, Voltaire, Herder, Vico, Raynal, Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, and a wide range of lesser- and better-known figures. It also discusses many classical, medieval, and early modern sources which influenced Enlightenment historiography, as well as eighteenth-century attitudes toward nature in general.

Quantum Angels and Other Spacetime Anomalies
Quantum Angels and Other Spacetime Anomalies

Author: Pierre Chevalier

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000-12

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0595163262

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The poetic selections in this volume reflect the author's thoughts on a variety of angels, including beings -- so-called real as well as so-called imaginary -- the author has personally encountered during his lifetime; others ponder the author's experiences, real and imaginary, concerning the concept of angels. Some of the angel verses in this selection are based on astrological/planetary attributions and, consequently, reflect Greek, Roman, Qabalistic and Christian mythologies. Others are purely speculative and issue from the author's imagination. Most of the verses in this poetic selection consider the author's imaginative views of various philosophies, psychologies, cosmologies and quantum physics. Eleven of the eighty four verses in this selection also appear in the author's previous work, TAROT: Poetic Revelations and Other Verses.

Legitimacy, Legal Development and Change
Legitimacy, Legal Development and Change

Author: David K. Linnan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 837

ISBN-13: 1317105818

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This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be employed to shape behavior as a form of social engineering, or must social behavior change first, relegating legal change to follow as ratification or reinforcement? And what is legal development's source of legitimacy if not modernization? But by the same token, whose version of modernization will predominate absent a Western monopoly on change? There are now legal development alternatives, especially from Asia, so we need a better way to ask the right questions of different approaches primarily in (non-Western) Asia, Africa, the Islamic world, plus South America. Incoming waves of change like the 'Arab spring' lie on the horizon. Meanwhile, debates are sharpening about law's role in economic development versus democracy and governance under the rubric of the rule of law. More than a general survey of law and modernization theory and practice, this work is a timely reference for practitioners of institutional reform, and a thought-provoking interdisciplinary collection of essays in an area of renewed practical and scholarly interest. The contributors are a distinguished international group of scholars and practitioners of law, development, social sciences, and religion with extensive experience in the developing world.