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Post-conflict administrations in international law : international territorial administration, transitional authority and foreign occupation in theory and practice
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ISBN: 9789004170230 9004170235 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden: Nijhoff,


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Language and power : the implications of language for peace and development
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ISBN: 1283005077 9786613005076 9987081460 9987081339 9987102581 9789987081462 9789987080328 9987080324 Year: 2009 Publisher: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers,

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Language is a tool used to express thoughts, to hide thoughts or to hide lack of thoughts. It is often a means of domination. The question is who has the power to define the world around us. This book demonstrates how language is being manipulated to form the minds of listeners or readers. Innocent words may be used to conceal a reality which people would have reacted to had the phenomena been described in a straightforward manner. The nice and innocent concept ""cost sharing"", which leads our thoughts to communal sharing and solidarity, may actually imply privatization. The false belief that

Empires and boundaries : rethinking race, class, and gender in colonial settings
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ISBN: 9780415541251 9780415960892 9780203890653 0415962390 0203890655 9780415962391 9781135896812 9781135896850 9781135896867 9780203932124 9781135900878 9781135900915 9781135900922 9780415540735 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Routledge,


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Empire, development & colonialism : the past in the present
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ISBN: 9781847010117 1847010113 9781846157172 1847010776 9786612988189 184615717X 1282988182 Year: 2009 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, N.Y. : James Currey,

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The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are not just anecdotal but are analytically revealing. From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. MARK DUFFIELD is Professor of Development Politics at the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol.


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Justice, legality, and the rule of law : lessons from the Pitcairn prosecutions
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ISBN: 019172159X 1283581477 9786613893925 0191582670 9780191721595 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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In 2004 six Pitcairn men were convicted of numerous offences against girls and young women, but what right did the British government have to initiate these prosecutions? Was it fair given that no laws had been published on the island? Indeed what law was there on this island? This book explores the issues raised by the Pitcairn case.

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