"While casualty counting during modern conflicts is deficient due to organizational, political or strategic reasons, the international organizations responsible for collecting such data […] face difficulties to access the conflict scene, resulting in under-reported, unreliable or no-reported data."
"NARRATING HERITAGE. Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance" by Veysel Apaydin (Bloomsbury, 2023).
"Drawing on over ten years of research and ethnographic fieldwork based on six complex case studies from Turkey and comparing them with case studies from across the world, the book explores a variety of social, political, cultural and economic heritage discourses, making explicit the relationship between cultural and natural heritage. This book expands on these discourses by examining the role of violence in heritage, expanding on the concepts of both direct and slow violence. It situates heritage discourse within the sphere of human rights and lays out redistribution, recognition and representation as dimensions of social justice in a heritage context."
Anlässlich des Internationalen Tags zur Beseitigung von Gewalt gegen Frauen (#OrangeDay) ein Hinweis auf #WerkstattGeschichte 4/1993 "Physische #Gewalt im Alltag", hg. v. Alf Lüdtke & @tlindenberger; darin u.a. Beiträge zu Gegen-Gewalt von Frauen im Schwarzwald im 18. Jh. (Michaela Hohkamp) und zu Gewalt & Sexualität in einer Berliner Arbeiternachbarschaft (Eva Brücker):
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe.
"The FBI released new data last week showing that violent crime is down in America, but that hate crimes are up. This is completely at odds with right-wing narratives about the United States, which portrays surging violence in lawless 'Democrat-run' cities. Instead, the data show a different picture: violence is down, except against the very social groups that are targeted by right-wing tropes and the MAGA movement."
Browsing through the news headlines these days is done in 10 seconds. It's all war, and other brutal violence. Sad people are still interested in this. One would think we would want to focus on the more productive and uplifting stuff.
Why are works of #fiction (books, comic, animation, film) depicting #rape or #pedophilia more offensive to more people and cause more calls to boycott or censorship than fiction depicting extreme #violence or #murder, when killing someone is universally regarded as worse than raping someone (morally worse) and criminal systems everywhere punish murderers more harshly than rapists (legally worse)?
Mattias Agerberg and I address this question in our article, published open access in the newest issue of the Journal of #Peace#Research
In survey experiments in U.S., Sweden and UK we find that respondents are more likely to support intervention in armed #conflict if there is widespread #SexualViolence, compared to widespread ethnic violence, #violence generally or torture
PHILADELPHIA’S MÜTTER MUSEUM IS REVIEWING ITS COLLECTION OF HUMAN REMAINS. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS FOR DISABILITY REPRESENTATION by Riva Lehrer (Art in America, 2023).
"The Mütter joins medical and natural history museums around the world who are debating the ethical treatment of human remains. There is the question of provenance: at the Mütter, some specimens may have been accepted into the collection under dubious or outright unethical circumstances. Mütter curator Anna Dhoty has written about one unclear holding. Other provenance issues have recently been resolved after decades of negotiation. And in some instances, there is virtually no paper trail at all.
All this gets at a deeper, more troubling question: can it ever be ethical to own, or exhibit, someone else’s body? And if so, how should those bodies be displayed?"
THE CARE/REPATRIATION OF HUMAN REMAINS HELD IN MUSEUMS.
As @ricketson points out, this is a problem that has been tirelessly debated for many years. And it is a multifaceted problem. Some examples (there are, of course, many more):
Well, well: guess who tipped off the FBI that Craig Robertson in Utah was making violent threats against Alvin Bragg, President Biden, V-P Kamala Harris, Merrick Garland and others?
It all began with Trump's Truth Social notifying the FBI in March about the threats against Bragg. Then the Secret Service alerted the FBI to the threats.
As Kate Riga notes, right wingers want to make Robertson a martyr.
The anti-abortion crusade (because that’s what it is: a pre-modern overtly violent Christian campaign to conquer The Others™) is a vestigial throwback to ancient Roman policy of “partus sequitur ventrem” which became English common law, and the American colonies adapted it to weaponize sexual violence against people who were considered property (i.e. chattel slaves).