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    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      August 2018

      Flight MH17, Ukraine and the new Cold War

      Prism of Disaster

      by Kees van der Pijl, Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman

      Deals with the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014, amid a civil war that followed the violent seizure of power by Ukrainian nationalists on 22 February of that year, leading to a NATO-Russia standoff. This is the first scholarly work on the Ukrainian civil war and the downing of MH17. It offers a contextual analysis that radically challenges the Western consensus that 'Putin' was behind it all without making pertinent claims as to the perpetrators. It analyses the Western advance to the east after 1991 and investigates the Ukraine crisis in light of internal fault-lines, the formation of the BRICS bloc and US-EU rivalry over Russian energy links. Based on previously unpublished government and NATO documents as well as a wide array of sources, the book is written in an accessible style.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      August 2018

      Flight MH17, Ukraine and the new Cold War

      Prism of Disaster

      by Kees van der Pijl, Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      August 2018

      Flight MH17, Ukraine and the new Cold War

      Prism of Disaster

      by Kees van der Pijl, Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2016

      Death and security

      Memory and mortality at the bombsite

      by Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

      Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security. It considers the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman alongside literature from the sociology of death, before undertaking a comparative exploration of the memorialisation of four prominent post-terrorist sites: the World Trade Centre in New York, the Bali bombsite, the London bombings and the Norwegian sites attacked by Anders Breivik. By interviewing the architects and designers of these reconstruction projects, the book shows that practices of memorialisation are a retrospective security endeavour - they conceal and re-narrate the traumatic incursion of death. Disaster recovery is replete with security practices that return mortality to its sublimated position and remove the disruption posed by mortality to political authority. The book will be of significant interest to academics and postgraduates working in the fields of critical security studies, memory studies and international politics.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2024

      Heritage and healing in Syria and Iraq

      by Zena Kamash

      This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict. It charts a path through the colonial histories and traumatic wars of Syria and Iraq to examine the projects and responses currently on offer and assess their flaws and limitations, including issues of digital colonialism, technological solutionism, geopolitical manoeuvring, media bias and community exclusion. Drawing on current research into the psychology and neuroscience of trauma and trauma recovery, and taking inspiration from artists and creative thinkers who challenge the status quo, this book envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to respond to heritage damaged in conflict that recentre people and their hopes, dreams and needs at the heart of these debates.

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