The argument of this book is that it is in the nature of modernity to foster compassion. Most critics tend to think of modernity as corrosive of moral sentiments. They see clearly the way in which mod
The study of memory is too often pervaded with a spatially-fixed understanding of culture. The idea of culture as ‘rooted’ was an attempt to provide a solution to the uprooting of local cultures c
Memories of historical events like the Holocaust have played a key role in the internationalization of human rights. Their importance lies in their ability to bridge the universal and the particular--
"This excellent book shows that the human rights regime gives rise to a geography of human rights that founds a new geography of power both within and between states. Within states it empowers powerl
