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... and support of my partner Alyson Cole, my son Tammuz (Muzi) Frankel, my parents Sara andYair Frankel, my ... x Acknowledgments nette and Alex Byrd provided camaraderie. My colleagues at the New School for Social Research and Lang... more
... and support of my partner Alyson Cole, my son Tammuz (Muzi) Frankel, my parents Sara andYair Frankel, my ... x Acknowledgments nette and Alex Byrd provided camaraderie. My colleagues at the New School for Social Research and Lang College have been exceptionally kind ...
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Dans cet article, l'A s'interesse aux conditions d'emencipation des anciens esclaves noirs en 1862. L'A analyse ici les travaux de la commission d'enquete sur la liberte (AFIC), de la Boston Emancipation League. Cette... more
Dans cet article, l'A s'interesse aux conditions d'emencipation des anciens esclaves noirs en 1862. L'A analyse ici les travaux de la commission d'enquete sur la liberte (AFIC), de la Boston Emancipation League. Cette commission s'est penchee sur les questions de citoyennete mais egalement sur la distinction de la notion de race et les possibilites economiques et de controle social de l'abolition de l'esclavage
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The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (2004) has served as an archive upon which films, TV docudramas, and literary pieces on the 9/11 attacks rely. The Commission’s work represents the... more
The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (2004) has served as an archive upon which films, TV docudramas, and literary pieces on the 9/11 attacks rely. The Commission’s work represents the degree of independence exercised by state-appointed investigative bodies. The article argues that the Report’s book-like format, conception as historical work, and collective authorship were intrinsic to public tasks the Commission undertook beyond its nominal purview, namely the effort to revive a bipartisan public spirit in the United States. The article examines the underlying ideas about historical representation and the purpose of history that this foundational document of the post-9/11 era propagates as it also exemplifies the increasing influence of the discourse of memory on contemporary historical thinking.
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E: opo@iisj.es W: http://opo.iisj.net 261 Oñati Socio-legal Series, v. 7, n. 2 (2017)-'Moving On'? Official Responses to Mass Harm and the Question of Justice Abstract Conducted by royal commissions, select committees and the... more
E: opo@iisj.es W: http://opo.iisj.net 261 Oñati Socio-legal Series, v. 7, n. 2 (2017)-'Moving On'? Official Responses to Mass Harm and the Question of Justice Abstract Conducted by royal commissions, select committees and the newly established inspectorates, early Victorian social investigations elaborated formats and procedures of public inquiry that left an enduring impact on modern, liberal public spheres in the English speaking world and beyond. This article revisits a few features of 19 th Century official investigations, highlighting the rather diverse and contradictory effects these fact-seeking ventures had on British democratic culture. I argue that even as government inquiries confirmed and strengthen social gradations as well as hierarchies of knowledge and expertise, they nevertheless allowed the British lower classes to participate in official discourse as knowers, not just sufferers, and opened new possibilities for dissent and contestations. I highlight the ma...
Conducted by royal commissions, select committees and the newly established inspectorates, early Victorian social investigations elaborated formats and procedures of public inquiry that left an enduring impact on modern, liberal public... more
Conducted by royal commissions, select committees and the newly established inspectorates, early Victorian social investigations elaborated formats and procedures of public inquiry that left an enduring impact on modern, liberal public spheres in the English speaking world and beyond. This article revisits a few features of 19th Century official investigations, highlighting the rather diverse and contradictory effects these fact-seeking ventures had on British democratic culture. I argue that even as government inquiries confirmed and strengthen social gradations as well as hierarchies of knowledge and expertise, they nevertheless allowed the British lower classes to participate in official discourse as knowers, not just sufferers, and opened new possibilities for dissent and contestations. I highlight the manner in which the investigation itself rather than any consequent legislation or policy touched upon the administration of justice either by emulating court procedures or in ter...
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... Subcommissioners, for instance, were asked to inform miners as to the importance of childhood to the growth and maturity of the human body.45 Thomas Southwood Smith, a physician and a senior mines commissioner, mediated between the... more
... Subcommissioners, for instance, were asked to inform miners as to the importance of childhood to the growth and maturity of the human body.45 Thomas Southwood Smith, a physician and a senior mines commissioner, mediated between the sites of social malady and a group ...
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This essay explores the political actions and public performances of the Israeli Black Panthers, pointing to the transnational dynamics that rendered the Panther identity so potent. The Black Panthers of Israel emerged in early 1971 with... more
This essay explores the political actions and public performances of the Israeli Black Panthers, pointing to the transnational dynamics that rendered the Panther identity so potent. The Black Panthers of Israel emerged in early 1971 with a series of raucous demonstrations and public antics. Comprising poor Mizrahi youngsters, they rattled the Israeli establishment, exposing and politicizing “ethnic” tensions within the Jewish population of Israel. The author argues that the emergence of Black Power in the United States had somewhat surprising ripple effects on Israeli politics, shaping aspects of the Israeli Left but also the radicalism of the extreme Right.
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... Subcommissioners, for instance, were asked to inform miners as to the importance of childhood to the growth and maturity of the human body.45 Thomas Southwood Smith, a physician and a senior mines commissioner, mediated between the... more
... Subcommissioners, for instance, were asked to inform miners as to the importance of childhood to the growth and maturity of the human body.45 Thomas Southwood Smith, a physician and a senior mines commissioner, mediated between the sites of social malady and a group ...
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Page 1. Whatever Happened to "Red Emma"? Emma Goldman, from Alien Rebel to American Icon Oz Frankel Over the past quarter of a century, the anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) has assumed a unique position in American... more
Page 1. Whatever Happened to "Red Emma"? Emma Goldman, from Alien Rebel to American Icon Oz Frankel Over the past quarter of a century, the anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) has assumed a unique position in American politics and culture. ...
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This handbook provides the first systematic integrated analysis of the role that states or state actors play in the construction of history and public memory after 1945. The book focuses on many different forms of state-sponsored history,... more
This handbook provides the first systematic integrated analysis of the role that states or state actors play in the construction of history and public memory after 1945. The book focuses on many different forms of state-sponsored history, including memory laws, monuments and memorials, state-archives, science policies, history in schools, truth commissions, historical expert commissions, the use of history in courts and tribunals etc. The handbook contributes to the study of history and public memory by combining elements of state-focused research in separate fields of study. By looking at the state’s memorialising capacities the book introduces an analytical perspective that is not often found in classical studies of the state. The handbook has a broad geographical focus and analyses cases from different regions around the world. The volume mainly tackles democratic contexts, although dictatorial regimes are not excluded.
[Contributing authors: Ąžuolas Bagdonas, Onur Bakiner, Tomas Balkelis, Denise Bentrovato, Berber Bevernage, Luigi Cajani, José Gabriel Cristancho Altuzarra, Kurt W. Clausen, Rommel A. Curaming, Violeta Davoliūtė, Antoon De Baets, Pierre-Olivier de Broux, Ramses Delafontaine, Francesca Dominello, Lawrence Douglas, Cornelia Eisler, Oz Frankel, Idesbald Goddeeris, Richard J. Golsan, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Martha Cecilia Herrera Cortés; Gisele Iecker de Almeida; Matt James; Michael Karabinos; Alexander Karn; Dora Komnenović , Stiina Löytömäki, Lynn Lemisko, Seiko Mimaki, Gotelind Müller-Saini, Ewa Ochman, Carol Pertuz-Bedoya, Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Vladimir Petrović, Eva-Clarita Pettai, Gertjan Plets, Ilaria Porciani, Lutz Raphael, Erna Rijsdijk, Achim Rohde, Stephan Scheuzger, Nina Schneider, Peter Seixas, Dorothea Staes, Pietro Sullo, Shanti Sumartojo, Patrizia Violi, Torsten Weber, Ben Wellings, Niké Wentholt, Christian Wicke, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Nico Wouters]
[Contributing authors: Ąžuolas Bagdonas, Onur Bakiner, Tomas Balkelis, Denise Bentrovato, Berber Bevernage, Luigi Cajani, José Gabriel Cristancho Altuzarra, Kurt W. Clausen, Rommel A. Curaming, Violeta Davoliūtė, Antoon De Baets, Pierre-Olivier de Broux, Ramses Delafontaine, Francesca Dominello, Lawrence Douglas, Cornelia Eisler, Oz Frankel, Idesbald Goddeeris, Richard J. Golsan, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Martha Cecilia Herrera Cortés; Gisele Iecker de Almeida; Matt James; Michael Karabinos; Alexander Karn; Dora Komnenović , Stiina Löytömäki, Lynn Lemisko, Seiko Mimaki, Gotelind Müller-Saini, Ewa Ochman, Carol Pertuz-Bedoya, Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Vladimir Petrović, Eva-Clarita Pettai, Gertjan Plets, Ilaria Porciani, Lutz Raphael, Erna Rijsdijk, Achim Rohde, Stephan Scheuzger, Nina Schneider, Peter Seixas, Dorothea Staes, Pietro Sullo, Shanti Sumartojo, Patrizia Violi, Torsten Weber, Ben Wellings, Niké Wentholt, Christian Wicke, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Nico Wouters]