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- 9780520301849
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520301846
ISBN-13
9780520301849
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038264844
Product Key Features
Book Title
Human Shields : a History of People in the Line of Fire
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Military Science, Military / Weapons, Human Rights, World
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2020-017888
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Human Shields provides a critical new addition to the literature on international law. The book demonstrates the ways in which powerful states have continued to utilize IHL as a tool for aggression against marginalized communities, Thoughtful and elegant. . . . Were the book to simply chart the use of human shields in warfare and situations of political upheaval, it would be a valuable enough contribution to the literature - Gordon and Perugini write in a lucid and persuasive style, employing still photographs effectively throughout the text to illustrate their thesis. What elevates the book is its theoretical framework of inclusion and exclusion -through this prism, the book is able to examine and interrogate a number of fascinating theoretical and practical questions, using unusual and innovative examples to further explore their thesis.
Dewey Decimal
355.422
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Introduction 1 * Civil War Humane Warfare in the United States 2 * Irregulars The Franco-German War and the Legal Use of Human Shields 3 * Settlers The Second Boer War and the Limits of Liberal Humanitarianism 4 * Reports World War I and the German use of Human Screens 5 * Peace Army International Pacifism and Voluntary Shielding during the Sino-Japanese War 6 * Emblem The Italo-Ethiopian War and Red Cross Medical Facilities 7 * Nuremberg Nazi Human Shielding and the Lack of Civilian Protections 8 * Codification The Geneva Conventions and the Passive Civilian 9 * People's War Casting Vietnamese Resistance as Human Shielding 10 * Environment Green Human Shielding 11 * Resistance Antimilitary Activism in Iraq and Palestine 12 * Humanitarian Crimes The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 13 * Manuals Military Handbooks as Lawmaking Tools 14 * Scale Human Shielding in Sri Lanka and the Principle of Proportionality 15 * Hospitals The Use of Medical Facilities as Shields 16 * Proximity Civilians Trapped in the Midst of the War on ISIS 17 * Info-War The Gaza Wars and Social Media 18 * Posthuman Shielding Drone Warfare and New Surveillance Technologies 19 * Women and Children Gender, Passivity, and Human Shields 20 * Spectacle Viral Images That Dehumanize or Humanize Shields 21 * Computer Games Human Shields in Virtual Wars 22 * Protest Civil Disobedience as an Act of War Acknowledgments Notes References Index
Synopsis
A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and environmental protests, and even computer games. The phenomenon, however, is by no means a new one. Describing the use of human shields in key historical and contemporary moments across the globe, Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini demonstrate how the increasing weaponization of human beings has made the position of civilians trapped in theaters of violence more precarious and their lives more expendable. They show how the law facilitates the use of lethal violence against vulnerable people while portraying it as humane, but they also reveal how people can and do use their own vulnerability to resist violence and denounce forms of dehumanization. Ultimately, Human Shields unsettles our common ethical assumptions about violence and the law and urges us to imagine entirely new forms of humane politics.
LC Classification Number
U167.5.H86G67 2020
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