M Jimmie Killingsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 972959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Jimmie Killingsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Jimmie |
| FAMILY NAME | Killingsworth |
| SIGNATURE | KILLINGSWORTH M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4407-7299 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The failure of the laws of war in Afghanistan: Between international and world society
The Brereton Report, and the subsequent establishment of an Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) to review the findings of the Afghanistan Inquiry present an opportunity for international relations theory to interrogate a series of complex relationships between violence and justice as they relate to: (a) the gap between acknowledged benefits of adherence with the laws of war, and a failure of battlefield effectiveness of these laws; (b) the p…
Head of state immunity, order, justice and the international criminal court: Limits of international criminal justice in international society
The post-Cold War international justice project is underpinned by the goal of overcoming impunity, an important part of which involves setting aside the historically evolved norm that rank or station will protect individuals from criminal responsibility. One of the primary forums where this plays out is the international criminal court. International relations theory is generally absent from discussions about the degree to which tensions between …
To Arrest or Not Arrest? South Africa, the International Criminal Court, and New Frameworks for Assessing Noncompliance
What are the consequences of prioritizing one obligation over another in a norm conflict on the norm that “loses”? How do these difficult choices affect how we understand the intent behind noncompliance with international law? This article examines South Africa’s decision not to arrest the then-President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, in the face of conflicting pressures from multiple international and domestic actors. South Africa’s conundrum over wh…
America’s Exceptionalist Tradition: From the Law of Nations to the International Criminal Court
How might we explain the reticence that the United States has towards the International Criminal Court, especially when one considers that the Rome Statute, the Court’s governing treaty, contains many of the legal protections afforded under the US legal system? This article will argue that the US’ relationship with the ICC is part of a longer pattern of US behaviour that can be best explained through the lens of exceptionalism. In making this arg…
From St Petersburg to Rome: Understanding the Evolution of the Modern Laws of War
Despite arguments to the contrary, the state continues to defiantly resist efforts to “extend the reach of legality”, especially as it pertains to attempts to bound the use of organised violence within international legal mechanisms. Yet this defiance is something of a paradox, where the evolution of the modern laws of war are characterised by a contradictory pattern. By focusing on important junctures in the short evolution of the codification o…
Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone: Teaching, Writing, and Living above the Marcellus Shale
A liberal peace? The problems and practices of peacebuilding
A liberal peace? The problems and practices of peacebuilding, edited by Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam, London and New York, Zed Books, 2011, 272 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISB
Understanding order and violence in the post-Soviet space: The Chechen and Russo-Georgia wars
Following the end of the Cold War, the discipline of international relations has benefited from a plethora of old, new and hybrid approaches to understanding order and violence. Yet amidst the scholarship on ‘new wars’, neo-medievalism and a range of alternative approaches such as human and critical security, the goal of understanding the motives, nature and limitations of contemporary uses of force remains elusive. This article attempts to shed …
Global Change, Peace & Security Special Issue: 20 Years after the fall of the Soviet Union
Stalin the Charismatic Leader: Explaining the 'Cult of Personality' as a Legitimation Technique
This article challenges the traditional view of Joseph Stalin as a charismatic leader who cultivated a "cult of personality" through manipulation and propaganda. Instead, it argues that Stalin employed the "cult" as a legitimation technique to consolidate his power within the Soviet political system. By analyzing Stalin's speeches, writings, and actions, the authors demonstrate how he strategically used the "cult" to construct an image of himself…
Lustration and Legitimacy
For much of their existence, the Soviet-type regimes of Central and Eastern Europe were accused of suffering from a “legitimacy crisis”. It is argued in this contribution that not only are such assumptions tainted by Cold War biases but that the nature of these regimes, combined with the inherent complexities of legitimacy, mean that such claims have limited credence. It proposes that studying a particular phenomenon in the post-communist world—i…
Lustration after totalitarianism: Poland’s attempt to reconcile with its Communist past
The former Communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe have attempted to reconcile their Communist past in different ways. It is in Poland, however, where the issue of dealing with its Communist past through attempts at lustration has been especially fraught. It will be argued here that Poland’s lustration problems are caused primarily by a failure to understand the specific nature of totalitarian dictatorship that existed in Poland under C…
Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study of Ecopoetics
A Phenomenological Perspective on Ethical Duty in Environmental Communication
This essay deals with the problematic concepts of “crisis” and “environment.” Viewing environmental communication as a crisis discipline, while effective in short-term calls to action, creates a long-term rhetorical problem: how do we sustain a sense of crisis over time? The term “environment” presents a more thoroughgoing problem, the tendency to define human habitat as a mere background, setting, or surrounding for human action. Terms from phen…
Opposition and Dissent in Soviet Type Regimes: Civil Society and its Limitations
Following the collapse of Communist regimes in 1989, academics and dissidents alike were quick to claim that agents of ‘civil society’ had played an integral role in the 1989 ‘Velvet Revolutions’. However, the appropriation of civil society to explain events in Eastern Europe is highly problematic. In arguing that civil society offers an inappropriate framework in which to study opposition and dissent in Soviet type regimes, this article recommen…
Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study of Ecopoetics
"In this first book-length study of Whitman's poetry from an ecocritical perspective, Jimmie Killingsworth takes ecocriticism one step further into ecopoetics to reconsider both Whitman's language in light of an ecological understanding of the world and the world through a close study of Whitman's language." "Killingsworth contends that Whitman's poetry embodies the kinds of conflicted experience and language that continually crop up in the disco…
The Strange Sad War Revolving: Walt Whitman, Reconstruction and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-1876
Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in Whitman studies for over a century. This first book-length analysis points the way for a needed recovery of Whitman's 1865-1876 publications by considering them in the context of the legislative discourse of black emancipation and its stormy aftermath. While Whitman's Union ideology is virtually uncontested, the perceived absence of attention to race relat…
The discourse of “environmentalist hysteria”
Environmentalism challenges not only social and political but also psychological orthodoxies by offering new opportunities for interpreting the relation of self to society and to the earth. The ego originates in discourse as an object of contemplation, only later to become a “subject position,” a category within which the self can discover a new “I am” in a broader social world. Taking as a starting point the accusation that environmentalists lik…
Expanding and redirecting historical research in technical writing: In search of our past
This study suggests an approach for expanding and integrating research to produce a history of technical writing. The study defines problems that reside in writing such a history, suggests research premises and questions, and then applies these questions to technical writing as it existed in the English Renaissance, 1475–1640.
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History
Discourse communities-local and global
complex of social formations. In the field of composition and rhetoric, such systems have been described as communities. The term is useful in the theory and analysis of writing because it embraces the rhetorical concern with social interchange (discourse) and with situation or context (community). But the term can lead the analyst astray by prompting an uncritical acceptance of as a natural element or transcendental category. Because community, …
Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text
Whitman the Political Poet
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet
Stalin the Charismatic Leader: Explaining the 'Cult of Personality' as a Legitimation Technique
This article challenges the traditional view of Joseph Stalin as a charismatic leader who cultivated a "cult of personality" through manipulation and propaganda. Instead, it argues that Stalin employed the "cult" as a legitimation technique to consolidate his power within the Soviet political system. By analyzing Stalin's speeches, writings, and actions, the authors demonstrate how he strategically used the "cult" to construct an image of himself…
Discourse communities-local and global
complex of social formations. In the field of composition and rhetoric, such systems have been described as communities. The term is useful in the theory and analysis of writing because it embraces the rhetorical concern with social interchange (discourse) and with situation or context (community). But the term can lead the analyst astray by prompting an uncritical acceptance of as a natural element or transcendental category. Because community, …
Opposition and Dissent in Soviet Type Regimes: Civil Society and its Limitations
Following the collapse of Communist regimes in 1989, academics and dissidents alike were quick to claim that agents of ‘civil society’ had played an integral role in the 1989 ‘Velvet Revolutions’. However, the appropriation of civil society to explain events in Eastern Europe is highly problematic. In arguing that civil society offers an inappropriate framework in which to study opposition and dissent in Soviet type regimes, this article recommen…
The discourse of “environmentalist hysteria”
Environmentalism challenges not only social and political but also psychological orthodoxies by offering new opportunities for interpreting the relation of self to society and to the earth. The ego originates in discourse as an object of contemplation, only later to become a “subject position,” a category within which the self can discover a new “I am” in a broader social world. Taking as a starting point the accusation that environmentalists lik…
Lustration and Legitimacy
For much of their existence, the Soviet-type regimes of Central and Eastern Europe were accused of suffering from a “legitimacy crisis”. It is argued in this contribution that not only are such assumptions tainted by Cold War biases but that the nature of these regimes, combined with the inherent complexities of legitimacy, mean that such claims have limited credence. It proposes that studying a particular phenomenon in the post-communist world—i…
Understanding order and violence in the post-Soviet space: The Chechen and Russo-Georgia wars
Following the end of the Cold War, the discipline of international relations has benefited from a plethora of old, new and hybrid approaches to understanding order and violence. Yet amidst the scholarship on ‘new wars’, neo-medievalism and a range of alternative approaches such as human and critical security, the goal of understanding the motives, nature and limitations of contemporary uses of force remains elusive. This article attempts to shed …
Lustration after totalitarianism: Poland’s attempt to reconcile with its Communist past
The former Communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe have attempted to reconcile their Communist past in different ways. It is in Poland, however, where the issue of dealing with its Communist past through attempts at lustration has been especially fraught. It will be argued here that Poland’s lustration problems are caused primarily by a failure to understand the specific nature of totalitarian dictatorship that existed in Poland under C…
To Arrest or Not Arrest? South Africa, the International Criminal Court, and New Frameworks for Assessing Noncompliance
What are the consequences of prioritizing one obligation over another in a norm conflict on the norm that “loses”? How do these difficult choices affect how we understand the intent behind noncompliance with international law? This article examines South Africa’s decision not to arrest the then-President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, in the face of conflicting pressures from multiple international and domestic actors. South Africa’s conundrum over wh…
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet
Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text
Whitman the Political Poet
Expanding and redirecting historical research in technical writing: In search of our past
This study suggests an approach for expanding and integrating research to produce a history of technical writing. The study defines problems that reside in writing such a history, suggests research premises and questions, and then applies these questions to technical writing as it existed in the English Renaissance, 1475–1640.
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History
Discourse communities-local and global
complex of social formations. In the field of composition and rhetoric, such systems have been described as communities. The term is useful in the theory and analysis of writing because it embraces the rhetorical concern with social interchange (discourse) and with situation or context (community). But the term can lead the analyst astray by prompting an uncritical acceptance of as a natural element or transcendental category. Because community, …
The discourse of “environmentalist hysteria”
Environmentalism challenges not only social and political but also psychological orthodoxies by offering new opportunities for interpreting the relation of self to society and to the earth. The ego originates in discourse as an object of contemplation, only later to become a “subject position,” a category within which the self can discover a new “I am” in a broader social world. Taking as a starting point the accusation that environmentalists lik…
The Strange Sad War Revolving: Walt Whitman, Reconstruction and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-1876
Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in Whitman studies for over a century. This first book-length analysis points the way for a needed recovery of Whitman's 1865-1876 publications by considering them in the context of the legislative discourse of black emancipation and its stormy aftermath. While Whitman's Union ideology is virtually uncontested, the perceived absence of attention to race relat…
Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study of Ecopoetics
"In this first book-length study of Whitman's poetry from an ecocritical perspective, Jimmie Killingsworth takes ecocriticism one step further into ecopoetics to reconsider both Whitman's language in light of an ecological understanding of the world and the world through a close study of Whitman's language." "Killingsworth contends that Whitman's poetry embodies the kinds of conflicted experience and language that continually crop up in the disco…
A Phenomenological Perspective on Ethical Duty in Environmental Communication
This essay deals with the problematic concepts of “crisis” and “environment.” Viewing environmental communication as a crisis discipline, while effective in short-term calls to action, creates a long-term rhetorical problem: how do we sustain a sense of crisis over time? The term “environment” presents a more thoroughgoing problem, the tendency to define human habitat as a mere background, setting, or surrounding for human action. Terms from phen…
Opposition and Dissent in Soviet Type Regimes: Civil Society and its Limitations
Following the collapse of Communist regimes in 1989, academics and dissidents alike were quick to claim that agents of ‘civil society’ had played an integral role in the 1989 ‘Velvet Revolutions’. However, the appropriation of civil society to explain events in Eastern Europe is highly problematic. In arguing that civil society offers an inappropriate framework in which to study opposition and dissent in Soviet type regimes, this article recommen…
Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study of Ecopoetics
Lustration and Legitimacy
For much of their existence, the Soviet-type regimes of Central and Eastern Europe were accused of suffering from a “legitimacy crisis”. It is argued in this contribution that not only are such assumptions tainted by Cold War biases but that the nature of these regimes, combined with the inherent complexities of legitimacy, mean that such claims have limited credence. It proposes that studying a particular phenomenon in the post-communist world—i…
Lustration after totalitarianism: Poland’s attempt to reconcile with its Communist past
The former Communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe have attempted to reconcile their Communist past in different ways. It is in Poland, however, where the issue of dealing with its Communist past through attempts at lustration has been especially fraught. It will be argued here that Poland’s lustration problems are caused primarily by a failure to understand the specific nature of totalitarian dictatorship that existed in Poland under C…
Stalin the Charismatic Leader: Explaining the 'Cult of Personality' as a Legitimation Technique
This article challenges the traditional view of Joseph Stalin as a charismatic leader who cultivated a "cult of personality" through manipulation and propaganda. Instead, it argues that Stalin employed the "cult" as a legitimation technique to consolidate his power within the Soviet political system. By analyzing Stalin's speeches, writings, and actions, the authors demonstrate how he strategically used the "cult" to construct an image of himself…
Understanding order and violence in the post-Soviet space: The Chechen and Russo-Georgia wars
Following the end of the Cold War, the discipline of international relations has benefited from a plethora of old, new and hybrid approaches to understanding order and violence. Yet amidst the scholarship on ‘new wars’, neo-medievalism and a range of alternative approaches such as human and critical security, the goal of understanding the motives, nature and limitations of contemporary uses of force remains elusive. This article attempts to shed …
Global Change, Peace & Security Special Issue: 20 Years after the fall of the Soviet Union
A liberal peace? The problems and practices of peacebuilding
A liberal peace? The problems and practices of peacebuilding, edited by Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam, London and New York, Zed Books, 2011, 272 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISB
Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone: Teaching, Writing, and Living above the Marcellus Shale
From St Petersburg to Rome: Understanding the Evolution of the Modern Laws of War
Despite arguments to the contrary, the state continues to defiantly resist efforts to “extend the reach of legality”, especially as it pertains to attempts to bound the use of organised violence within international legal mechanisms. Yet this defiance is something of a paradox, where the evolution of the modern laws of war are characterised by a contradictory pattern. By focusing on important junctures in the short evolution of the codification o…
America’s Exceptionalist Tradition: From the Law of Nations to the International Criminal Court
How might we explain the reticence that the United States has towards the International Criminal Court, especially when one considers that the Rome Statute, the Court’s governing treaty, contains many of the legal protections afforded under the US legal system? This article will argue that the US’ relationship with the ICC is part of a longer pattern of US behaviour that can be best explained through the lens of exceptionalism. In making this arg…
Head of state immunity, order, justice and the international criminal court: Limits of international criminal justice in international society
The post-Cold War international justice project is underpinned by the goal of overcoming impunity, an important part of which involves setting aside the historically evolved norm that rank or station will protect individuals from criminal responsibility. One of the primary forums where this plays out is the international criminal court. International relations theory is generally absent from discussions about the degree to which tensions between …
To Arrest or Not Arrest? South Africa, the International Criminal Court, and New Frameworks for Assessing Noncompliance
What are the consequences of prioritizing one obligation over another in a norm conflict on the norm that “loses”? How do these difficult choices affect how we understand the intent behind noncompliance with international law? This article examines South Africa’s decision not to arrest the then-President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, in the face of conflicting pressures from multiple international and domestic actors. South Africa’s conundrum over wh…
The failure of the laws of war in Afghanistan: Between international and world society
The Brereton Report, and the subsequent establishment of an Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) to review the findings of the Afghanistan Inquiry present an opportunity for international relations theory to interrogate a series of complex relationships between violence and justice as they relate to: (a) the gap between acknowledged benefits of adherence with the laws of war, and a failure of battlefield effectiveness of these laws; (b) the p…
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