From the Risk Society to Thana Capitalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
World War ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
The World ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Postmodern Ethics ◽  
Second World

The current paper focused on the spectatularization of disasters as the main commodity thana capitalism exchanges. The discussion around the crimes against mankind perpetrated by Nazis in the clandestine concentration camps opened the doors towards new insights respecting the roots of thana capitalism. Nazis violated human rights secreting their crimes in a moment of the world where millions certainly died. Today´s philosophers are shocked to see how Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was the sanctuary of the horrors of the Second World War, sets the pace to a new allegory, intended to entertain thousands of tourists, many of them unfamiliar with these events. As a highly-demanded tourist destination, Auschwitz evinces the change of new postmodern ethics that commoditizes the other´s loss as a criterion of entertainment. The example of terrorism shows one of the paradoxes of thana capitalism simply because media covers and disseminates the cruelties of attacks to gain further subscribers and investors while terrorism finds a fertile ground to penetrate the homes of a wider audience.

scholarly journals Challenging the Nurney Procedure by the Roma national community

Bastina ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 363-376
Author(s):  
Bajram Haliti
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
New Order ◽  
World War ◽  
National Community ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
The World ◽  
Second World

World War II is considered to be the largest and longest bloody conflict in recent history. It began with the German attack on Poland on September 1, 1939. The war lasted six years and ended with the capitulation of Japan on September 2, 1945. The consequences of the war are still present in many countries today. "German, Italian and Japanese fascists waged a war of conquest with the aim of dividing the world and creating a New Order in which it would have economic, political and military domination, establish a rule of terror and violence and destroy all forms of human freedom, dignity and humanism. Only a few thousand Roma in Germany survived the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camps. Trying to rebuild their lives, after losing so many family members and relatives, and after their property was destroyed or confiscated, they faced enormous difficulties. The health of many was destroyed. Although they have been trying to get compensation for that for years, such requests have been constantly denied Based on established facts, eyewitnesses, witnesses, historical and legal documents, during the Second World War, the crime of genocide against Orthodox Serbs, Jews and Roma of all faiths except Islam was committed. The attempt to exterminate the Roma during the Second World War must not be forgotten. There was no justice for the survivors of the post-Hitler era. It is important to note that the trial in Nuremberg did not mention the genocide of the Roma at all. The Nuremberg trial is basically the punishment of the losers by the winners. This is visible even today because these forces rule the world. Innocent victims, primarily Roma, have not received justice, satisfaction or recognition from the world community. The Roma were further humiliated because they were not given a chance to speak about the few surviving witnesses about the victims and the horrors they survived. The Roma for the Nuremberg International Military Court and the Nuremberg judges simply did not exist, which called into question the legal aspect of the process, which has not been corrected to date. The Roma national community is committed to revising history, to reviewing the work of the Nuremberg tribunal.

Maladie et guérison dans les groupes pentecôtistes de l' Italie méridionale

1987 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-474
Author(s):  
Maria Pia Di Bella
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Healing Touch ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Second World ◽  
Founding Myth

Malady and healing touch a new member of the Pentacostal groups of meridional Italy... born essentially after the Second World War... at two different stages of his existence: before and after his integration. The first marks his passage from the world of "the wicked " to that of "the good" and the second his incor poration. If one trial will be lived by the believer as a founding myth of his religious practice, the other will make way for collec tive prayers which will reinforce the solidarity of the group faced with this menace while at the same time giving it the occasion to perpetuate itself.

Second World War and Its Repercussions: Impetus on Poverty in Travancore

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-221
Author(s):  
SAFEED R
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Minimal Effect ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

In the first half of the twentieth century the world witnessed two deadliest wars and it directly or indirectly affected the countries all over the world. The First World War from 1914-1918 and the Second World War from 1939-1945 shooked the base of the socio-economic and political structure of the entire world. When compared to the Second World War, the First World War confined only within the boundaries of Europe and has a minimal effect on the other parts of the world. The Second World War was most destructive in nature and it changed the existing socio-economic and political setup of the world countries.

‘Physically sheltered but existentially homeless’: Losing home in the aftermath of conflict and displacement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
World War ◽  
Existential Meaning ◽  
The World ◽  
Second World ◽  
Subsequent Risk ◽  
Sense Of Home ◽  
National Borders

Abstract This article explores the interplay between conflict-induced displacement and home. Inspired by Arendt’s discussion on home for those European refugees who were forced to move and deported to Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War, the article argues that displacement results in the loss of a place called home. Drawing on the narratives of those who in the aftermath of conflict have fled within national borders in Colombia, the article shows that displacement consistently results in the loss of home and it is experienced as the loss of people’s place in the world. Their loss of home was not only experienced as the loss of a physical shelter and its financial value but primarily as the loss of a place in which their lives were fulfilled with existential meaning. Despite the fact that the displaced found a new place for dwelling, most of them stressed the feeling of being out of place within their own country. The empirical findings challenge internal displacement research which rather than looking at how displacement disrupts one’s sense of home, has tended to focus on the loss of material assets and the subsequent risk of being trapped by poverty as the most salient impacts of displacement. The article ends by suggesting that the use of a notion of home which is material and symbolic, may provide internal displacement research with new venues for understanding both the very meaning of being displaced and how displacement is experienced.

scholarly journals Transformation the world construction after the Second World War and places in its USA and USSR (1945 – 1946)

2019 ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Yuliya Podriez
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
World War ◽  
Spheres Of Influence ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The One ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Universe

The article is devoted to studing the trunsformation (changes) in the world after the Second World War, as well as the role and the place in it of two powerful states – the USA and the USSR. The article is devoted to the study of the question of the universe after the Second World War, as well as the role and the place in it of two powerful states – the USA and the USSR. In the article, the author emphasizes the objective and subjective circumstances that transformed Soviet-American relations since 1945. At the same time, it is emphasized that relations are complicated by the emergence of a new factor – atomic. Consideration of Soviet-USA relations is proposed through the lens of attempting to establish USA-USSR cooperation in the economic sphere, the development of nuclear weapons, and a technological approach in strategic arms. Much attention is paid to the meeting of the Big Three, which took place in Potsdam. In particular, on the one hand, the focus is on the direct procedure for concluding peace treaties and establishing diplomatic relations with Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Finland; on the other, the distribution of spheres of influence across Germany, based on the relevant protocol. In general, the author attempted to prove that the Berlin Conference made it possible to find mutually agreed solutions and to reach compromises, despite the escalation.

Squatting: The Fight for Decent Shelter, 1970s–1980s

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
John Marsland
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

During the twenty years after the Second World War, housing began to be seen as a basic right among many in the west, and the British welfare state included many policies and provisions to provide decent shelter for its citizens. This article focuses on the period circa 1968–85, because this was a time in England when the lack of affordable, secure-tenured housing reached a crisis level at the same time that central and local governmental housing policies received wider scrutiny for their ineffectiveness. My argument is that despite post-war laws and rhetoric, many Britons lived through a housing disaster and for many the most rational way they could solve their housing needs was to exploit loopholes in the law (as well as to break them out right). While the main focus of the article is on young British squatters, there is scope for transnational comparison. Squatters in other parts of the world looked to their example to address the housing needs in their own countries, especially as privatization of public services spread globally in the 1980s and 1990s. Dutch, Spanish, German and American squatters were involved in a symbiotic exchange of ideas and sometimes people with the British squatters and each other, and practices and rhetoric from one place were quickly adopted or rejected based on the success or failure in each place.

Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown, The Story of an Underground: The Resistance of the Jews in Kovno in the Second World War, trans. Jessica Setbon. Jerusalem: Gefen, 2014. 496 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Armed Resistance ◽  
Second World ◽  
And Training

This chapter reviews the book The Story of an Underground: The Resistance of the Jews in Kovno in the Second World War (2014), by Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown, translated by Jessica Setbon. The Story of an Underground is about the Jews of Kovno (Kaunas) who founded an underground movement during the Holocaust. The armed underground developed a plan to escape to the forests and join the partisans. The ghetto was liquidated in the summer of 1944. Many of the remaining Jews were sent to the Stutthof and Dachau concentration camps. The book highlights the dilemmas of Jewish armed resistance such as difficulties in obtaining weapons and training, some of the failures of the resistance, and some of the positive aspects of those who thought differently from members of the armed resistance.

For the Victims of Pseudo-Medical Experiments

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (104) ◽  
pp. 646-647
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
Central European ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
Second World

Twenty-five years after the second World War, the International Committee of the Red Cross is still dealing with claims for compensation from people living in certain Central European countries who were victims of pseudo-medical experiments in German concentration camps.

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