Race, Inequality, and Colonialism in the New World Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4084938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Engle Merry (0000-0001-5872-9898, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 235-247 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2006.00255.x |
| OpenAlex | W2082605151 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
In early 2004, as Americans viewed the photographs of beatings, humiliation, and abuse of the Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib with horror, they were repeating the experiences of Canadians 10 years earlier. In 1994, Canadians saw photos and videotapes of cruelty and abuse by their peacekeepers toward the Somalis they had been sent to rescue. In 2004, Americans confronted the fact that U.S. soldiers were capable of the same forms of brutality and cruelty they had come to expect from other regimes. For Canadians, proud of their status as peacekeepers to the world, this experience was also deeply distressing. How did they make sense of their behavior? Reading this event through the lens of race, Sherene Razack in Dark Threats and White Knights argues that this was not an aberrant event, the product of a few "bad apples," or a failure of oversight but an expression of the underlying dynamics of race and imperialism that shaped the peacekeeping project in the first place
Colonialism · Criminology · Cruelty · Humiliation · Peacekeeping · Political science · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Law · Religion and Society Interactions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2011 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |