Archive for 2006

What Happened to the Women?: Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations

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Women face a double marginalization under authoritarian regimes and during and after violent conflicts . . .

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Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army

Allen, Tim. London, New York: Zed Books; Cape Town: David Philip, 2006.



allen-trialjustice-cover3.jpgThe International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into problems with its first big case—the situation in northern Uganda . . .

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AIDS and Power: Why There is No Political Crisis - Yet

aids_power_coverde Waal, Alex. London, New York: Zed Books; Cape Town: David Philip, 2006.



One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in the prime of his or her life of AIDS . . .

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Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization

van Schendel, Willem and Itty Abraham, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

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Flows of drugs, arms, illegal workers, counterfeit goods, and technologies have been a central but often unrecognized feature of . . .

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Child Soldiers in Africa

Honwana, Alcinda. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Child Soldiers
Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world . . .

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Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power

Calhoun, Craig, Frederick Cooper and Kevin W. Moore, eds. New York: The New Press, 2006.

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This fifth and final volume in the Social Science Research Council series "After September 11" examines what the experience . . .

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Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy

Fisher, Melissa S. and Greg Downey, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Frontiers of Capital
Growing out of a workshop organized by the SSRC Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution, Frontiers of Capital brings . . .

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Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific

Feldman, Heidi. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006

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In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru’s African . . .

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Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru

Arce, Moises. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.

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The central question addressed in 1997 IDRF Fellow Moises Arce’s account of Fujimoro’s Peru is how liberal market reforms . . .

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El pasado en el futuro: los movimientos juveniles

Jelin, Elizabeth and Diego Sempol, eds. Madrid: Siglo XXI Editores, 2006.

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The eleventh volume in a series of publications resulting from the SSRC program on Collective Memory of Repression. The entire . . .

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