Humanitarian Spaces: Three Concepts for a History (Part 2)
This is part two in a series. For part one, see here. Part three will follow tomorrow. Structuring knowledge: If the Maussian concept can help to see social spaces with dynamic and asymmetric power...
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This is part three in a series. See here for parts one and two. Oath and language: In my third and final example, I come to probably the most important element in structuring humanitarian spaces:...
View Article“Globalization,” what is it good for?
This piece has previously appeared in German translation in Heft 10 (Oktober 2016). When the global economic crisis erupted in 2008, it was not only historians who scurried in search of the lessons of...
View ArticleA Progressive Defense of Originalism
In nominating Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, President Trump fulfilled a campaign pledge to nominate a person who followed in the tradition of “Originalism” espoused by Justice Antonin J....
View ArticleGunnar Myrdal in the Latest Issue of Humanity
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View ArticleBeyond Good Intentions: Responsible and Effective Advocacy in the Digital Age
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View ArticleThe Athenians No Longer Know the Megarians
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View ArticleIs a global history of development possible?
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View ArticleSymposium: Doing Justice to Truth in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
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View ArticleSentencing at the ICTY: Doing justice to complex realities of international...
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View ArticleArchives of Knowledge: Power, Ownership and Contestation at the ICTR’s Archive
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View ArticleInternational Criminal Tribunals as Epistemic Engines Or Why Legal Truth Is...
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View ArticleThe ICC, Dominic Ongwen, and the Politics of Truth
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View ArticleTruth Beyond the ICC
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View ArticleDeconstructing the Epistemic Challenges to Mass Atrocity Prosecutions
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View ArticleForensic Truth? Scientific evidence in international criminal justice
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View Article“The Judgement Is not Made Now; The Judgement Will Be Made in the Future”:...
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View ArticleTimes of Reckoning: History, Evidence and Truth-making after Yugoslavia
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View ArticleTransformative Occupations in the Modern Middle East
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View ArticleThe Meaning of the 1967 War
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