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The principle of the lesser evil--the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice--has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian theology, to Hannah Arendt's exploration of the work of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi regime, the author explores its development in three key transformations of the problem: the defining intervention of Medecins Sans Frontisres in mid-1980s in Ethiopia; the separation wall in Israel-Palestine; and international and human rights law in Bosnia, Gaza and Iraq. Drawing on a wealth of new research, the author charts the latest manifestation of this age-old idea. In doing so he shows how military and political intervention acquired a new humanitarian acceptability and legality in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.--Publisher description

Political ethics --- Political violence --- Multinational armed forces --- International relations --- Morale politique --- Relations internationales --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Aspect moral

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In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN. Beyond shedding new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, Forensic Architecture has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media, remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd-sourcing. In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group’s founder, provides, for the first time, an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. The book includes an extensive array of images, maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work the group has performed. Included in this volume are case studies that traverse multiple scales and durations, ranging from the analysis of the shrapnel fragments in a room struck by drones in Pakistan, the reconstruction of a contested shooting in the West Bank, the architectural recreation of a secret Syrian detention center from the memory of its survivors, a blow-by-blow account of a day-long battle in Gaza, and an investigation of environmental violence and climate change in the Guatemalan highlands and elsewhere. Weizman’s Forensic Architecture, stunning and shocking in its critical narrative, powerful images, and daring investigations, presents a new form of public truth, technologically, architecturally, and aesthetically produced. Their practice calls for a transformative politics in which architecture as a field of knowledge and a mode of interpretation exposes and confronts ever-new forms of state violence and secrecy.

Forensic sciences. --- Forensic anthropology. --- Human rights. --- Architecture --- Political aspects. --- wars --- human geography --- research [function] --- Polemology --- Human rights --- architecture [discipline] --- Social geography --- Legal medicine --- forensic science --- Forensic Architecture [London] --- Weizman, Eyal --- Criminalistique --- Anthropologie légale --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- Aspect politique --- Forensic sciences --- Forensic anthropology --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- film --- fotografie --- documentaire fotografie --- luchtfotografie --- nieuwe media --- kunst --- kunst en politiek --- kunst en activisme --- architectuur --- Forensic Architecture --- Weizman Eyal --- Palestina --- Pakistan --- landschap --- landschapsfotografie --- oorlog --- cartografie --- 130.2 --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Anthropology, Forensic --- Medicolegal anthropology --- Physical anthropology --- Criminalistics --- Forensic science --- Science --- Criminal investigation --- Political aspects --- Design and construction --- Law and legislation --- 7.071 FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE --- 711.4:343.9 --- Anthropology --- Architecture, Primitive --- genocide --- mensenrechten

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[2014] Lors de la réoccupation des villes de Palestine au printemps 2002, l’armée israélienne a utilisé une tactique inédite : au lieu de progresser dans les rues tortueuses des vieux quartiers ou des camps de réfugiés, les soldats passaient de maison en maison, à travers murs et planchers, évitant ainsi de servir de cibles aux résistants palestiniens. Cette méthode, «conceptualisée » sous le nom de « géométrie inversée » par des généraux qui aiment à citer Debord, Deleuze et Guattari ou Derrida, représente un tournant postmoderne dans la guerre des villes. Les territoires occupés sont ainsi devenus un laboratoire spatial pour de nouvelles techniques d’attaque, d’occupation et de contrôle de populations, qui sont ensuite exportées aux frontières où se livre la guerre globale. Et inversement, la réflexion sur l’urbanisme est largement passée dans des centres de recherche où des militaires travaillent sur l’art de construire / détruire en s’appuyant sur de pseudo-concepts philosophiques. Mais Eyal Weizman montre que ces idées nouvelles – substrat d’une querelle des Anciens et des Modernes dans l’armée israélienne – n’ont pas été étrangères au fiasco libanais de l’été 2006.

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