Peace and World History: A Historiographic Review
Peace and World History: A Historiographic Review Author: Ross Ryan Translated into Spanish by Silvana Gordillo González Works reviewed: Adolf, Antony. Peace: A World History. Hoboken: Polity Press, 2009. Cortright, David. Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Gregor, Thomas. A Natural History of Peace. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. […]
Peacejacking: Peace Literacy and the Co-optation of Peace Concepts
Oliver Rizzi Carlson comments on the (ab)use of peace language to describe the reported capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Far from an isolated case, Rizzi suggests that we call this form of dialectal manipulation “peacejacking”.