Kerstin Von Lingen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1435529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerstin Von Lingen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerstin |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Lingen |
| SIGNATURE | VON LINGEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1045-7162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rejecting Conditions of Resettlement
This article examines the overlooked phenomenon of displaced persons (DP) who, after postwar resettlement under United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration/International Refugee Organization (IRO) schemes, sought to return to Europe – the ‘returnees’ – to illuminate the frictions between promises and lived realities. It contextualizes the shift from early repatriation to large-scale resettlement in the late 1940s and frames return as …
The Great War and the Anthropocene
The Agency of Forced Migrants
This introduction sets out the thematic and methodological framework of a special issue on historical refugee agency in the aftermath of the Second World War. It situates the volume within historiographical debates that move beyond narratives of passive victimization, instead foregrounding how refugees actively shaped their lives and the regimes that sought to govern them. The central question is how forced migrants exercised personal, proxy, and…
The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s
The three decades spanning the 1930s, '40s, and '50s witnessed the birth of the modern global state system, characterized by a protracted and tortuous transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states. The demise of Nazi, British, and Japanese empires emancipated millions of people across the world. However, as old empires dissolved, new post-imperial states continued older colonial-origin forms of ethno-religious discrimination and …
Citizenship, Expropriation, and Redress
Forced displacement brings with it the loss of property, belonging, and identity. Objects encode the nexus between citizenship, property, and sense of belonging/emotional attachment. The article explores the connection between citizenship and property and thereby highlights the agency of victims and their refugee’s polis. This case-study focuses on Jewish Austrian citizens who fled from Austria to Shanghai during the Nazi occupation era, expelled…
Preliminary Material
Embattled Nature
Conflict Landscapes of the Great War
The spatial and environmental dimension of WWI has recently taken the central place in academic debates on the military history of the “short twentieth century”. At present, the large-scale conflict of humanity and nature under totalized warfare is recognized as no less significant to the existential experience of combatants and civilians than actual battles. Functioning as a demiurge, the Great War created and re-molded landscapes, accelerated d…
The United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), 1943–1948, and the Codification of International Criminal Law
Crimes against peace' and 'crimes against humanity' are two elements of international law which acquired enormous resonance in the legal and moral discussions in the aftermath of the Second World War. The origination of these concepts is often attributed to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the American chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, Robert Jackson, and Hersch Lauterpacht.1 However, this approach, quite widespread among interna…
Epistemic Communities of Exile Lawyers at the UNWCC
During the 1940s in London, exiled lawyers from Europe and Asia were among the main actors in coining one of the most known principles of international criminal law. The notion of ‘crimes against humanity’ emanated from their legal debates. This paper debates how the term surfaced in meetings of the United Nations War Crimes Commission ( UNWCC ) in 1944 and was taken up by the London Charter for the Nuremberg International Tribunal in 1945. Legal…
Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement in the Long 1940s
When considering the wave of forced migrations during the Second World War in Europe and Asia, and the international and institutional responses thereof, we can speak about the 1940s as witnessing the birth of a global refugee resettlement regime. Organisations including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), and eventually the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee…
Crimes against Humanity“
Das Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK) hat Kerstin von Lingen den Czempiel-Preis für die beste postdoktorale Monografie aus der Friedensforschung verliehen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der Pressemitteilung des HSFK. Transnationale Debatten unter Juristen haben das humanitäre Völkerrecht entscheidend geformt. Die Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt stand seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts im Zentrum und …
Forum
In recent years, there has been a deepening convergence between scholarship on global intellectual history and on legal history. To take just one example, a recent book on international law, by Arnulf Becker Lorca (2014), carries “global intellectual history” in its subtitle—a stance related to the author's emphasis on the constitutive role in the field of non-European legal actors. A sustained reflection on the convergence between legal studies …
Legal Flows
This article addresses the normative framework of the concept of “crimes against humanity” from the perspective of intellectual history, by scrutinizing legal debates of marginalized (and exiled) academic–juridical actors within the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC). Decisive for its successful implementation were two factors: the growing scale of mass violence against civilians during the Second World War, and the strong support and a…
Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956
Debating collaboration and complicity in war crimes trials in Asia, 1945-1956
"[This book] examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan's contradictory roles in the Second World War as brutal oppressor of conquered regions in Asia and as liberator of Asia from both Western colonialism and stultifying tradition set the stage…
Humanity
War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956
Die Waffen-SS
Die in diesem Band versammelten Texte einschlägig ausgewiesener Experten erkunden bislang vernachlässigte Themenbereiche und entwickeln neue Fragestellungen zur Geschichte der bewaffneten SS. Zu ihnen gehören biographie-, struktur-, kultur-, sozial- und operationsgeschichtliche Ansätze. Es wird nach der Rolle des weiblichen Personals in der Waffen-SS, nach Netzwerken innerhalb des Führerkorps sowie nach der Motivation von ausländischen Freiwillig…
La costruzione della memoria della "guerra pulita" sul fronte italiano
Is analysis of the trial against former German C-i-C Albert Kesselring, followed by a death sentence, and the subsequent public campaign aimed at his liberation, gives an explanation for the failure of British War Crimes Policy in Italy after 1945. The Kesselring trial and the clemency campaign in his favor are analyzed using the concept of deliberate memory formation politics. Particular emphasize is laid on German war memory, the public debate …
Conspiracy of Silence
This article examines the circumstances surrounding the escape from prosecution of SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, one of the central SS figures in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II. Key to his evasion of justice was his role in “Operation Sunrise”—negotiations conducted by high-ranking American, Swiss, and British officials in violation of the Western Allies' agreements with the Soviet Union—for the surrender of German forces in Ita…
Legal Flows
This article addresses the normative framework of the concept of “crimes against humanity” from the perspective of intellectual history, by scrutinizing legal debates of marginalized (and exiled) academic–juridical actors within the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC). Decisive for its successful implementation were two factors: the growing scale of mass violence against civilians during the Second World War, and the strong support and a…
The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s
The three decades spanning the 1930s, '40s, and '50s witnessed the birth of the modern global state system, characterized by a protracted and tortuous transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states. The demise of Nazi, British, and Japanese empires emancipated millions of people across the world. However, as old empires dissolved, new post-imperial states continued older colonial-origin forms of ethno-religious discrimination and …
Citizenship, Expropriation, and Redress
Forced displacement brings with it the loss of property, belonging, and identity. Objects encode the nexus between citizenship, property, and sense of belonging/emotional attachment. The article explores the connection between citizenship and property and thereby highlights the agency of victims and their refugee’s polis. This case-study focuses on Jewish Austrian citizens who fled from Austria to Shanghai during the Nazi occupation era, expelled…
Conspiracy of Silence
This article examines the circumstances surrounding the escape from prosecution of SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, one of the central SS figures in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II. Key to his evasion of justice was his role in “Operation Sunrise”—negotiations conducted by high-ranking American, Swiss, and British officials in violation of the Western Allies' agreements with the Soviet Union—for the surrender of German forces in Ita…
La costruzione della memoria della "guerra pulita" sul fronte italiano
Is analysis of the trial against former German C-i-C Albert Kesselring, followed by a death sentence, and the subsequent public campaign aimed at his liberation, gives an explanation for the failure of British War Crimes Policy in Italy after 1945. The Kesselring trial and the clemency campaign in his favor are analyzed using the concept of deliberate memory formation politics. Particular emphasize is laid on German war memory, the public debate …
Die Waffen-SS
Die in diesem Band versammelten Texte einschlägig ausgewiesener Experten erkunden bislang vernachlässigte Themenbereiche und entwickeln neue Fragestellungen zur Geschichte der bewaffneten SS. Zu ihnen gehören biographie-, struktur-, kultur-, sozial- und operationsgeschichtliche Ansätze. Es wird nach der Rolle des weiblichen Personals in der Waffen-SS, nach Netzwerken innerhalb des Führerkorps sowie nach der Motivation von ausländischen Freiwillig…
Humanity
War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956
Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956
Debating collaboration and complicity in war crimes trials in Asia, 1945-1956
"[This book] examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan's contradictory roles in the Second World War as brutal oppressor of conquered regions in Asia and as liberator of Asia from both Western colonialism and stultifying tradition set the stage…
Crimes against Humanity“
Das Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK) hat Kerstin von Lingen den Czempiel-Preis für die beste postdoktorale Monografie aus der Friedensforschung verliehen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der Pressemitteilung des HSFK. Transnationale Debatten unter Juristen haben das humanitäre Völkerrecht entscheidend geformt. Die Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt stand seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts im Zentrum und …
Forum
In recent years, there has been a deepening convergence between scholarship on global intellectual history and on legal history. To take just one example, a recent book on international law, by Arnulf Becker Lorca (2014), carries “global intellectual history” in its subtitle—a stance related to the author's emphasis on the constitutive role in the field of non-European legal actors. A sustained reflection on the convergence between legal studies …
Legal Flows
This article addresses the normative framework of the concept of “crimes against humanity” from the perspective of intellectual history, by scrutinizing legal debates of marginalized (and exiled) academic–juridical actors within the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC). Decisive for its successful implementation were two factors: the growing scale of mass violence against civilians during the Second World War, and the strong support and a…
The United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), 1943–1948, and the Codification of International Criminal Law
Crimes against peace' and 'crimes against humanity' are two elements of international law which acquired enormous resonance in the legal and moral discussions in the aftermath of the Second World War. The origination of these concepts is often attributed to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the American chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, Robert Jackson, and Hersch Lauterpacht.1 However, this approach, quite widespread among interna…
Epistemic Communities of Exile Lawyers at the UNWCC
During the 1940s in London, exiled lawyers from Europe and Asia were among the main actors in coining one of the most known principles of international criminal law. The notion of ‘crimes against humanity’ emanated from their legal debates. This paper debates how the term surfaced in meetings of the United Nations War Crimes Commission ( UNWCC ) in 1944 and was taken up by the London Charter for the Nuremberg International Tribunal in 1945. Legal…
Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement in the Long 1940s
When considering the wave of forced migrations during the Second World War in Europe and Asia, and the international and institutional responses thereof, we can speak about the 1940s as witnessing the birth of a global refugee resettlement regime. Organisations including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), and eventually the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee…
Conflict Landscapes of the Great War
The spatial and environmental dimension of WWI has recently taken the central place in academic debates on the military history of the “short twentieth century”. At present, the large-scale conflict of humanity and nature under totalized warfare is recognized as no less significant to the existential experience of combatants and civilians than actual battles. Functioning as a demiurge, the Great War created and re-molded landscapes, accelerated d…
Preliminary Material
Embattled Nature
The Great War and the Anthropocene
The Agency of Forced Migrants
This introduction sets out the thematic and methodological framework of a special issue on historical refugee agency in the aftermath of the Second World War. It situates the volume within historiographical debates that move beyond narratives of passive victimization, instead foregrounding how refugees actively shaped their lives and the regimes that sought to govern them. The central question is how forced migrants exercised personal, proxy, and…
The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s
The three decades spanning the 1930s, '40s, and '50s witnessed the birth of the modern global state system, characterized by a protracted and tortuous transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states. The demise of Nazi, British, and Japanese empires emancipated millions of people across the world. However, as old empires dissolved, new post-imperial states continued older colonial-origin forms of ethno-religious discrimination and …
Citizenship, Expropriation, and Redress
Forced displacement brings with it the loss of property, belonging, and identity. Objects encode the nexus between citizenship, property, and sense of belonging/emotional attachment. The article explores the connection between citizenship and property and thereby highlights the agency of victims and their refugee’s polis. This case-study focuses on Jewish Austrian citizens who fled from Austria to Shanghai during the Nazi occupation era, expelled…
Rejecting Conditions of Resettlement
This article examines the overlooked phenomenon of displaced persons (DP) who, after postwar resettlement under United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration/International Refugee Organization (IRO) schemes, sought to return to Europe – the ‘returnees’ – to illuminate the frictions between promises and lived realities. It contextualizes the shift from early repatriation to large-scale resettlement in the late 1940s and frames return as …
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · International law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · European history and politics (5 works) · History (5 works)