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Critical Human Rights

Scott Straus and Tyrell Haberkorn, Series Editors; Steve J. Stern, Editor Emeritus

Interdisciplinary in nature, Critical Human Rights publishes empirically grounded and theoretically innovative work. The series emphasizes research that opens new ways to conceptualize and examine human rights. Books in the Critical Human Rights series transcend simplified accounts of perpetrators and victims, resist triumphalist narratives, emphasize the importance of local perception, incorporate socioeconomic rights, and anticipate human rights problems of the future.

Please send inquiries to UW Press Acquisitions Editor Amber R. Cederström.

 

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The Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Power, Politics, and Resistance in Transitional Justice
Julie Bernath
Spring 2023

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Systemic Silencing
Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia
Katharine E. McGregor
Spring 2023

Long Journey to Justice
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Long Journey to Justice
El Salvador, the United States, and Struggles against Empire
Molly Todd
Spring 2023 (paperback)

After Genocide: cover showing a photograph of rows of simple wooden crosses. Photograph by Ricardo Mazalan. Design by Distillery Marketing & Design.
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After Genocide
Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Nicole Fox
Spring 2023 (paperback)

Practical Audacity: A photograph of a black statue of a person with braids and no eyes or body. The statue is in front of modern buildings. Statue by Simon Leigh. Photo by Huge L. Gonzalez. Design by Distillery Marketing & Design.
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Practical Audacity
Black Women and International Human Rights
Stanlie M. James
Fall 2022 (paperback)

South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left: Cover showing a painting of a child's head colored black containing a pink plant and a man and woman colored green. The man is pointing a bow and arrow and the woman is pointing a gun and has a baby strapped to her back.
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South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left
Jessica Stites Mor
Fall 2023 (paperback)

Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
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Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
Edited by Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee
Fall 2020 (casebound)

Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa
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Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa
Human Rights, Society, and the State
Edited by Lydia Boyd and Emily Burrill
Spring 2020 (casebound)

Buried Histories
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Buried Histories
The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia
John Roosa
Fall 2022 (paperback)

Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
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Elusive Justice
Women, Land Rights, and Colombia's Transition to Peace
Donny Meertens
Fall 2019 (casebound)

Conflicted Memory
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Conflicted Memory
Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru
Cynthia E. Milton
Fall 2019 (paperback)

The Wars inside Chile's Barracks
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The Wars inside Chile's Barracks
Remembering Military Service under Pinochet
Leith Passmore
Fall 2019 (paperback)

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Bread, Justice, and Liberty
Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile
Alison J. Bruey
Spring 2018

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Civil Obedience
Complicity and Complacency in Chile since Pinochet
Michael J. Lazzara
Spring 2018

Amending the Past
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Inside Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts
Seeking Justice after Genocide
Bert Ingelaere
Spring 2018 (paperback)

Amending the Past
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Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling
Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina
Nancy J. Gates-Madsen
Spring 2018 (paperback)

Prisoner of Pinochet
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Prisoner of Pinochet
My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp
Sergio Bitar
Translated by Erin Goodman; Foreward and notes by Peter Winn
Fall 2017

Conflicted Memory
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Conflicted Memory
Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru
Cynthia E. Milton
Fall 2017

Amending the Past
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Amending the Past
Europe’s Holocaust Commissions and the Right to History
Alexander Karn
Fall 2015

From War to Genocide
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From War to Genocide
Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994
André Guichaoua
Translated by Don E. Webster
Foreword by Scott Straus

Fall 2015

Historical Justice and Memory
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Historical Justice and Memory
Edited by Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson
Spring 2015

The Social Origins of Human Rights
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The Social Origins of Human Rights
Protesting Political Violence in Colombia’s Oil Capital, 1919–2010
Luis van Isschot
Spring 2015

Memory’s Turn
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Memory’s Turn
Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil
Rebecca J. Atencio
Spring 2014

Archiving the Unspeakable
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Archiving the Unspeakable
Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia
Michelle Caswell
Spring 2014

The Human Rights Paradox
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The Human Rights Paradox
Universality and Its Discontents
Edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus
Spring 2014

Innocence and Victimhood
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Innocence and Victimhood
Gender, Nation, and Women’s Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Elissa Helms
Fall 2013

How Difficult It Is to Be God
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How Difficult It Is to Be God
Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999
Carlos Iván Degregori, Edited and with an introduction by Steve J. Stern
Fall 2012

Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America
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Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America
Edited by Jessica Stites Mor
Fall 2012

Torture and Impunity
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Torture and Impunity
The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2012

Remaking Rwanda
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Remaking Rwanda
State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf
Spring 2011

Beyond Displacement
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Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
Molly Todd
Fall 2010

The Politics of Necessity
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The Politics of Necessity
Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa
Elke Zuern
Fall 2010

Court of Remorse
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Court of Remorse
Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Thierry Cruvellier
Spring 2010