Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity

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When is a war not a war When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in "Humanitarian Violence," different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular, she consider

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"With clear and astute arguments that are executed with force and lucidity, Neda Atanasoski offers a wonderfully rich comparative study of postsocialist regions whose histories have been intertwined in various ways with American discursive and material practices and politics. The sustained focus on these kinds of U.S. historical impulses and their complex connections to Eastern Europe is a highly original and a much-needed intervention."Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University

"Humanitarian Violence is transnational and interdisciplinary scholarship at its best. It offers a much needed deeper look at the constitution of the modern West, while at the same time convincingly arguing for the continued importance of literary analysis and suggesting ways in which this analysis can be related to visual genres such as photojournalism, film, and digital art." Fatima El-Tayeb, University of California, San Diego

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Neda Atanasoski is associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz.