The Transformative Occupations of Palestine
This post appears in conjunction with a dossier on transformative occupations in Humanity issue 8.2 There are two schools of thought on transformative occupations. Adam Scheffer narrowly contrasts it...
View ArticleCall For Applications: Global Humanitarianism Research Academy
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View ArticleCFP: Human Rights Working Paper Series
Dedicated to interdisciplinary and critical dialogue on international human rights law and discourse, the Rapoport Center’s Working Paper Series (WPS) publishes innovative papers by established and...
View ArticleCapitalists and Climate
A number of the world’s political leaders are currently making a lot of fuss about their business credentials. The President of the United States is a “dealmaker.” The Prime Minister of Australia tells...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Euro-American Inter-State War: Introduction
This post is an advance version of a review essay that will appear in Humanity volume 10. It will be posted in five parts: one each day this week. The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw...
View ArticleOutlawry and its History
This post is an advance version of a review essay that will appear in Humanity volume 10. It will be posted in five parts: one each day this week. This is part 2. Hathaway and Shapiro announce in their...
View ArticleNeutrality, Sanctions, and Outcasting
This post is an advance version of a review essay that will appear in Humanity volume 10. It will be posted in five parts: one each day this week. This is part 3. The Internationalists compellingly...
View ArticleTrade, Statehood, and Conquest
This post is an advance version of a review essay that will appear in Humanity volume 10. It will be posted in five parts: one each day this week. This is part 4. Hathaway and Shapiro claim that “the...
View ArticleThe Shifting Meaning of War and Peace
This post is an advance version of a review essay that will appear in Humanity volume 10. It will be posted in five parts: one each day this week. This is part 5. The interwar period was a time of...
View ArticleLetter from Lviv: On place and the history of international law
My trip to Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg did not begin smoothly. I flew overnight from New York to Frankfurt, and from there to Vienna; boarding the third and last flight from Vienna to Lviv on Thursday afternoon,...
View ArticleGenocide Recognition without Human Rights?
Over the course of this week, the Turkish government will be called to account for some of the most heinous human rights violations ever to be witnessed. This demand for justice won’t address the...
View ArticleHumanity Editorial Transition
The founding editorial collective of Humanity—Nehal Bhuta, Nils Gilman, Nicolas Guilhot, Samuel Moyn, Joseph Slaughter, and Miriam Ticktin—is pleased to announce that, after ten years, its members are...
View ArticleKarl Marx’s theory of free speech – part 1
This is part one of a two-part post. Part two will be available here. Abstract: Much controversy has arisen around leftist attempts to curb provocative expression, particularly hate speech directed at...
View ArticleKarl Marx’s theory of free speech – part 2
This is part two of a two-part post. Part one is available here. Abstract: Much controversy has arisen around leftist attempts to curb provocative expression, particularly hate speech directed at...
View ArticleCFP – Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies on ‘Law, Governance and Development: Critical and Heterodox Approaches’ (co-edited by Mark Toufayan and Siobhan Airey) The...
View ArticleThe Mediterranean Mobility Conflict: Violence and anti-Violence at the...
This post is part of a series on politics in the face of death. For an introduction and links to the other posts, please see here. The ongoing, large-scale death of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea...
View ArticleSpectres of Death: Exhuming the Human Remains of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
This post is part of a series on politics in the face of death. For an introduction and links to the other posts, please see here. In the mid-1990s an extremist political faction within the...
View ArticlePolitics, Deathwork, and the Rights of the Dead
This post is part of a series on politics in the face of death. For an introduction and links to the other posts, please see here. I want to address, here, the dead body itself. Not just any dead body,...
View ArticleThe global war on migration, human shields, and the erosion of the civilian
This post is part of a series on politics in the face of death. For an introduction and links to the other posts, please see here. From the Mediterranean Sea to the US-Mexico border and all the way to...
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