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Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance to genocide and extermination, the international cover-ups that obstructed documentation of these crimes, and efforts to hold the perpetrators legally accountable. The perpetrator regimes inflicted casualties in similar proportions. Each caused the deaths of about one-fifth of the population of the n...
The Portuguese revolution of April 25, 1974, has drawn much well-deserved scholarly attention: it offers an innovative example of a leftist military-led revolutionary process that unexpectedly resulted in the transition to a West European-style social democracy. Although much of the existing scholarship has logically focused on the emerging political elites and institutions of the period, there is much more to consider about the revolution’s ramifications to the Portuguese social-movement sector. This volume examines the legacy of social movements that emerged during the Portuguese Revolution. Each case study was selected to demonstrate the breadth and variety of the Revolution’s activis...
This thoroughly engaging book uses empirical analysis to illustrate that the response of individuals to global terror events, via social media, provokes an opportunity to interpret the ways in which individuals view their place in the world and their relation to law and justice. It is through analysing these responses that Cassandra Sharp demonstrates that a ‘hashtag jurisprudence’ can be constructed.
The first exhibition catalogue of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo was published in 1912, establishing a tradition in publications devoted to the institution's collections. This exhibition, which celebrates 100 years of graphic and editorial production of the Pinacoteca, features posters, invitations, brochures, catalogues and books, as well as original documents never before displayed in public.
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Retrospective exhibition of Antonio Henrique Amaral, one of the major Brazilian artists of the 20th century. About 160 works, (80 oil canvas and 80 works on paper), the exhibition offers the public a panorama of the artist's career, from his early drawings and engravings of the decades of 1950's and 1960's, through a succession of phases in which painting becomes central in the work of the artist.
Exhibition of engravings of noted printmaker Mubarac (b. Brazil) produced since the late 1980s, when he started to research on the internal structures of the human body, establishing a narrow relationship between the technique and the subject in focus.
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