Stolen Future, Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change by David A. Collings

Author:David A. Collings
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781607853145
Publisher: Open Humanities Press
Published: 2014-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

109. Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (New York: Verso, 2001).

110. On the genocide in South West Africa, see David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen, The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide (London: Faber and Faber, 2010).

111. Although many observers use the word "genocide" regarding the events in Darfur, it may not be the best term to capture the complexity of the violence there. "Genocide" is now our term of choice to designate collective murder, even though it technically refers to an attempt to decimate members of a particular race or ethnic group. We need another term to specify violence that arises from different motives or spills over particular ethnic boundaries. For a reliable guide to the recent history of Darfur, see Julie Flint and Alex De Waal, Darfur: A New History of a Long War, revised (New York: Zed Books, 2008).

112. For a classic discussion of these themes, see Shoshana Feldman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (New York: Routledge, 1992). For a broader history of constructions of trauma, see Ruth Leys, Trauma: A Genealogy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

113. The "nuclear era," of course, is by no means over, since technically the possibility still remains that one or more powers could use nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, the fear of nuclear war between the great powers no longer defines our moment (although the international community continues to worry about nuclear proliferation and nuclear terror), and accordingly I will describe the "nuclear era" using the past tense.

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