Category: NGHM reads
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NGHM reads | Mark Wyman: DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons, 1945–51 (1989/1998)
What happens to millions of people whose suffering under persecution and violence-induced mobility does not end with the conclusion of the war in 1945, but instead enters its own distinct, difficult-to-grasp next phase? Mark Wyman’s DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons, 1945–51, the tenth title on the NGHM reading list and the first from the field of…
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NGHM reads | Michel Foucault: Surveiller et punir (1975)
How did the spectacle of torture become the silent routine of the cell? Michel Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, the fifth title on the NGHM reading list and an example from the field of social-theoretical foundations, answers this question with a counter-narrative: the abolition of public torture marks not a progress of humanity, but the transition…