The Care of the Witness: A Contemporary History of Testimony in Crises - Couverture rigide

Givoni, Michal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107150949 ISBN 13 : 9781107150942

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

During the twentieth century, witnessing grew to be not just a widespread solution for coping with political atrocities but also an intricate problem. As the personal experience of victims, soldiers, and aid workers acquired unparalleled authority as a source of moral and political truth, the capacity to generate adequate testimonies based on this experience was repeatedly called into question. Michal Givoni's book follows the trail of the problems, torments, and crises that became commingled with witnessing to genocide, disaster, and war over the course of the twentieth century. By juxtaposing episodes of reflexive witnessing to the Great War, the Jewish Holocaust, and third world emergencies, The Care of the Witness explores the shifting roles and responsibilities of witnesses in history and the contribution that the troubles of witnessing made to the ethical consolidation of the witness as the leading figure of nongovernmental politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michal Givoni teaches in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She is co-editor of The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107150949
• ISBN 13: 9781107150942
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie