San Tran Croucher's earliest memories are of fleeing ethnic attacks in her Vietnamese village, only to be later tortured in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge.Katya Cengel met San when San was seventy-five ...years old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide with her three daughters, Sithy, Sithea, and Jennifer. But San's family's troubles didn't end after their resettlement in California. As a teenager under the Khmer Rouge, San's daughter Sithy had been the family's savior, the strong one who learned how to steal food to keep them alive. In the United States, Sithy's survival skills were best suited for a life of crime, and she was eventually jailed for drug possession. U.S. immigration law enforces deportation of any immigrant or refugee who is found guilty of certain illegal activities, and San has hired a lawyer to fight Sithy's deportation case. Only time will tell if they are successful.InExiledCengel follows the stories of four Cambodian families, including San's, as they confront criminal deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Weaving together these stories into a single narrative, Cengel finds that violence comes in many forms and that trauma is passed down through generations. With no easy answers, Cengel reveals a cycle of violence, followed by safety, and then loss.
The success of implementing human rights treaties is often dependent on a country's national laws and local conditions. There is an implementation gap in dualist regimes where courts do not implement ...human rights treaty provisions because they have not been domesticated by a legislative (or other necessary) incorporating act. Interpretive incorporation is a judicial trend that seeks to mitigate this strict separatist view. This article examines the use of interpretive incorporation in Malaysia to incorporate CEDAW's prohibition against pregnancy discrimination through constitutional interpretation. It calibrates the outcomes of interpretive incorporation based on the status judges effectively give to unincorporated human rights treaties. Finally, the article reflects on some of the continuing local constraints on interpretive incorporation.
Cambodia underwent a triple transition in the 1990s: from war to peace, from communism to electoral democracy, and from command economy to free market. This book addresses the political economy of ...these transitions, examining how the much publicised international intervention to bring peace and democracy to Cambodia was subverted by the poverty of the Cambodian economy and by the state's manipulation of the move to the free market. This analysis of the material basis of obstacles to Cambodia's democratisation suggests that the long-established theoretical link between economy and democracy stands, even in the face of new strategies of international democracy promotion.
Caroline Hughes is Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellow at the School of Politics, University of Nottingham.
'The book is a valuable contribution to the study of the "new Cambodia", in its hopes, fears, and dilemmas as it emerges cautiously from the ashes of its turbulent past.' - Contemporary Southeast Asia
In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and
the Convention People's Party, drew the world's attention as
anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it
as a ...model for Africa's postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a
visionary, a statesman, and one of the key makers of contemporary
Africa. In Living with Nkrumahism, Jeffrey S. Ahlman
reexamines the infrastructure that organized and consolidated
Nkrumah's philosophy into a political program.
Ahlman draws on newly available source material to portray an
organizational and cultural history of Nkrumahism. Taking us inside
bureaucracies, offices, salary structures, and working routines, he
painstakingly reconstructs the political and social milieu of the
time and portrays a range of Ghanaians' relationships to their
country's unique position in the decolonization process. Through
fine attunement to the nuances of statecraft, he demonstrates how
political and philosophical ideas shape lived experience.
Living with Nkrumahism stands at the crossroads of the
rapidly growing fields of African decolonization, postcolonial
history, and Cold War studies. It provides a much-needed scholarly
model through which to reflect on the changing nature of
citizenship and political and social participation in Africa and
the broader postcolonial world.
The original Orator, was a Black woman and fable in one, birthed from Black storytellers and archivists. From the breath that bespoke, Adam, Eve (or Lilith). From the beginning. From evolution, ...apocalypse and the stars. From those occupying porch steps, spinning a tale so much for safekeeping that it had to be passed on. From those stories that were not allowed to be stories at all, yet resisted the erasure. Arose from the sermonizers and Baptist church preachers. From the schoolteacher. From the MCs and music mixers cultivating legend in their sound. From those uncles, nanas, and cousins. Blood and not. Nevertheless, the alien and the human. From here and not. Returning always to her roots yet bringing her history with her. And yet her existence revolved around the telling and the need for the story to be told. And to somehow keep a record of it. Arose with man because with life there was a story to tell.And that she did. Over and over again, she told the story and kept history. Guided the story in her travels and out the canal. Out the mouth. In the ear. On the page. Cradled it with her swaddled in her knapsack, coddled like a babe for protecting. And so, she traveled through time as a living record learned from her people. Sharing part of herself with those she’d met willing to embark on this journey with her.
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First captured on black-and-white security cam footage, he then appears in the coloured film of the fictional narrative, desperate and ravenous, trying to order a takeout when a newscast playing in ...the background announces the "breaking news" that " A patient has escaped from the isolation ward and is loose in the city. ...weaponized, he represents the height of technological advancement, everything that is new and dangerous about the alien presence. According to Chris Lee of the Los Angeles Times, tens of thousands of people called the number or entered the url displayed on the ads: "Sony's president of digital marketing, Dwight Caines, said: 'In two weeks, there have been 33,000 phone calls. ...one of the helicopter scenes was shot in the clearing next to his makeshift house, in between the mounds of trash, scrub and tin shacks that make up the Chiawelo area of Soweto" (Conway-Smith).
Corban Addison: Corban Addison is the author of three international bestselling novels, A Walk Across the Sun, The Garden of Burning Sand, and The Tears of Dark Water, which address some of today's ...most pressing human rights issues. Addison: After graduating from Virginia Law in 2004,1 completed a clerkship with a federal judge and then did civil litigation at a small law firm, representing plaintiffs and defendants in businessoriented lawsuits. Faktorovich: From books like Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha to Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, it seems books about the sex trade and child sexual abuse tend to sell very well when they are done in a fine literary style, with a close look at the details of the lives of the victims and the abusers.
For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America’s chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: ...revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil, Iranian support for Hezbollah, and President Ahmadinejad blaming the U.S. for the world’s ills. The unending war of words suggests an intractable divide between Iran and the West, one that may very well lead to a shooting war in the near future. But as Ray Takeyh shows in this accessible and authoritative history of Iran’s relations with the world since the revolution, behind the famous personalities and extremist slogans is a nation that is far more pragmatic—and complex—than many in the West have been led to believe. Takeyh explodes many of our simplistic myths of Iran as an intransigently Islamist foe of the West. Tracing the course of Iranian policy since the 1979 revolution, Takeyh identifies four distinct periods: the revolutionary era of the 1980s, the tempered gradualism following the death of Khomeini and the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1989, the “reformist” period from 1997-2005 under President Khatami, and the shift toward confrontation and radicalism since the election of President Ahmadinejad in 2005. Takeyh shows that three powerful forces—Islamism, pragmatism, and great power pretensions—have competed in each of these periods, and that Iran’s often paradoxical policies are in reality a series of compromises between the hardliners and the moderates, often with wild oscillations between pragmatism and ideological dogmatism. The U.S.’s task, Takeyh argues, is to find strategies that address Iran’s objectionable behavior without demonizing this key player in an increasingly vital and volatile region. With its clear-sighted grasp of both nuance and historical sweep, Guardians of the Revolution will stand as the standard work on this controversial—and central—actor in world politics for years to come.
Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988-2015offers new insights into contemporary Algeria. Drawing on a range of different approaches to the idea of Algeria and to its contemporary ...realities, the chapters in this volume serve to open up any discourse that would tie 'Algeria' to a fixed meaning or construct it in ways that neglect the weft and warp of everyday cultural production and political action. The configuration of these essays invites us to read contemporary cultural production in Algeria not as determined indices of a specific place and time (1988-2015) but as interrogations and explorations of that period and of the relationship between nation and culture. The intention of this volume is to offer historical moments, multiple contexts, hybrid forms, voices and experiences of the everyday that will prompt nuance in how we move between frames of enquiry. These chapters - written by specialists in Algerian history, politics, music, sport, youth cultures, literature, cultural associations and art - offer the granularity of microhistories, fieldwork interviews and studies of the marginal in order to break up a synthetic overview and offer keener insights into the ways in which the complexity of Algerian nation-building are culturally negotiated, public spaces are reclaimed, and Algeria reimagined through practices that draw upon the country's past and its transnational present.
