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This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use theatrical, multisensorial strategies to denunciate the violence against enslaved people and make a claim for their rights? The Spanish context is particularly interesting because of its early tradition of human rights thinking in the Salamanca School (especially Bartolom de Las Casas), developed in relation to slavery and colonialism. Taking its point of departure in forensic aesthetics, the book analyzes five forms of non-narrative theatricality: allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic and tragic. Karen-Margrethe Simonsen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark

In the early 21st century, radically changing work locations and patterns have jolted society to reflect more on the ways that employment affects the body and the mind. This book provides historical context and insights to aid our understanding of this contemporary crisis, critically examining the history of a neglected area.In this oral-history based study, Arthur McIvor explores the history of health and safety from Second World War to the present, drawing extensively upon workers' own personal stories of occupational accidents, disasters, injury, disease, overwork and disability. It covers a wide range of workplace issues, from stories of TNT poisoning and overwork in wartime, through to the asbestos and black lung disasters, and the modern-day epidemics of stress, burn-out and Covid-19.Opening conversations surrounding the harms caused by work, this book analyses how people have lived with occupational illness and disability, critiquing risk and work-health cultures, and the structural violence characteristic of industrial capitalism and neoliberal economics, in addition to discussing the agency of big business and advocacy of workers and victims. Focusing on class, gender, disability and race, this book uses an impressive range of secondary and primary sources, including government reports and enquiries drawing upon workers testimonies, Mine and Factory Inspectors Reports, HSE papers, newspapers, Mass Observation responses and oral history interviews

In a modernist interpretation of migration controls, nation states play a major role. This book challenges this interpretation by showing that comprehensive migration checks and permanent border controls appeared much earlier, in early modern dynastic states and empires, and predated nation states by centuries. The 11 contributions in this volume explore the role of early modern and modern dynastic kingdoms and empires in Europe, the Middle East and Eurasia and the evolution of border controls from the 16th to the 20th century. They analyse how these states interacted with other polities, such as emerging nations states in Europe, North America and Australia, and what this means for a broader reconceptualization of mobility in Europe and beyond in the longue duree. Contributors are: Tobias Brinkmann, Vincent Denis, Sinan Dincer, Josef Ehmer, Irial A. Glynn, Sabine Jesner, Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Leo Lucassen, Ikaros Mantouvalos, Leslie Page Moch, Jovan Pesalj, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Annemarie Steidl, and Megan Williams

Mit Blick auf den Vereinigungs- und Transformationsprozess der 1990er-Jahre stellt sich dabei die Frage, ob es Alternativen zu den eingeschlagenen Wegen gab. Bei der Suche nach Antworten führt der Weg auf eine Ebene, die für die einstmalige Arbeitsgesellschaft DDR von identitätsstiftender Bedeutung war: die Ebene der Betriebe, der dort Beschäftigten und ihrer Erfahrungen aus der Zeit, in der die wirtschaftliche und soziale Struktur in den neuen Ländern radikal umgestaltet wurde. Wie verliefen diese Prozesse? Welche Rolle spielten dabei Gewerkschaften und betriebliche Interessenvertretungen? Wie erfolgreich waren die vielfältigen Protestaktionen zum Erhalt von Betrieben und Arbeitsplätzen? Und welche Bedeutung nimmt dieses Engagement in den Erfahrungen der Betroffenen und in der medialen Öffentlichkeit ein? Dies sind die Kernfragen, die in dem vorliegenden Band thematisiert werden.

Unter den mehr als 25.000 Frauen, die zwischen 1939 und 1945 im zentralen Frauen-Konzentrationslager des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands in Ravensbrück gefangen gehalten wurden, gab es zahlreiche tschechoslowakische Frauen.Auf Grundlage von umfangreichen Forschungen in einheimischen und ausländischen Archiven sowie der Auswertung zahlreicher Zeitzeuginnenberichte arbeitet die Autorin im Kontext der NS-Verfolgungspolitik die innere Struktur der Gruppe heraus und entwirft eine Typologie der inhaftierten Frauen.Pavla Plachá berücksichtigt die gegenseitigen Beziehungen und Konflikte sowie ihre Verarbeitung des Erlebten in Nachkriegserinnerungen. Thema ist auch der Umgang mit diesen Erinnerungen durch die jeweiligen politisch Verantwortlichen bis zur Auflösung der CSSR und der neuen tschechischen Behörden.Berücksichtigt werden auch diejenigen Gruppen, die über Jahrzehnte tabuisiert oder marginalisiert wurden, u.a. tschechoslowakische Staatsangehörige deutscher Nationalität, Frauen aus der Slowakei und dem Teschen (Cieszyn-Tesín)-Gebiet, Frauen jüdischer Herkunft oder Sintezze und Romni.Es geht zudem um die spezifisch weiblichen Aspekte der Haft: sexualisierte Gewalt, Zwangsprostitution, pseudomedizinische Versuche, die Verletzung der Schamgefühle oder der Verlust der Privatsphäre sowie Mutterschaft oder intime Beziehungen zwischen den Frauen in der KZ-Haft

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent "Mr. Green has written a book of rigorous-and refreshing-honesty."-Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spread printing across Asia to bring Bibles to the colonized. The unintended consequence was an Asian communications revolution: the maritime public sphere expanded from Istanbul to Yokohama. From all corners of the continent, curious individuals confronted the challenges of studying each other's cultures by using the infrastructure of empire for their own exploratory ends. Whether in Japanese or Persian, Bengali or Arabic, they wrote travelogues, histories, and phrasebooks to chart the vastly different regions that European geographers labeled "Asia." Yet comprehension does not always keep pace with connection. Far from flowing smoothly, inter-Asian understanding faced obstacles of many kinds, especially on a landmass with so many scripts and languages. Here is the dramatic story of cross-cultural knowledge on the world's largest continent, exposing the roots of enduring fractures in Asian unity

Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial control over Indigenous land and life.Pathogens are storytellers of their time. The 500-year-old debate over the origins of syphilis reflects colonial judgments of morality and sexuality that became formally entwined in medicine. Smallpox is notoriously linked with the project of land theft, as colonizers destroyed Indigenous land, economies and life in the name of disease eradication. And tuberculosis, considered the "Indian disease," aroused intense fear of contagion that launched separate systems of care for Indigenous Peoples in a de facto medical apartheid, while white settlers retreated to sanatoria in the Laurentians and Georgian Bay to be cured. In this immersive and deeply reflective book, physician and activist Dr. Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay provides riveting insights into the biological and social relationships of disease and empire. Country of Poxes considers a future of health in Canada that heeds redress and healing for Nations brutalized by the Canadian state

Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Memory -- Literary Memory and Postmemory of a Traumatic Past -- Confronting Specters of the Past: Remembering Perpetrators -- Where Documentary Proof and Memory Intersect: Remembrance of the Great Famine -- History's Doppelgänger: Allegorized Memory and Its Moral Imperative -- Palimpsests of Identity: Memory-Lite Writings of the Cultural Revolution -- Epilogue: Toward an Ethics of Remembrance and Criticism.