Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Biopolitical Usage of Colonial Camp Systems between 1896 and 1908 and the Quest for Restorative Justice -- Talk of "Atrocities," European Regulation and Control of Imperial Violence, and the Rhetorical Framings of Colonial Human Rights Violations -- Academic Worries about Comparative or Synchronic Genealogical Studies of Colonial Camps -- A Brief Genealogy of Earlier Biopolitical and Thanatopolitical Studies of Colonial Camp Cultures -- The Trajectory for the Rest of the Book -- 2 General Valeriano Weyler, the Spanish "Reconcentración Policy," and American Calls for Military Intervention into Cuba -- The Two Cubas, Guerrilla Tactics, and Early Talk of Spanish Camp policies, 1868-1895 -- The Spanish Reconcentración Policy and General Weyler's Edicts -- Contested Rhetorical Framings of Spanish Colonization in Cuba and the Reconcentración Camps -- International Pressures and the Closing of the Reconcentración Camps -- American Critiques of Weyler's Reconcentración Camp Policies -- Conclusion -- 3 The "Faded Flowers" and the Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War -- Colonial Argumentation during the Early British "Concentration" Camp Years, March 1900 to June 1901 -- Emily Hobhouse and the Creation of the Boer Concentration Camp Controversy, June 1901-June 1902 -- British Prowar Sentiment and the Containment of the Concentration Camp Controversies -- Conclusion -- 4 The German Konzentrationslager and the Debates about the Annihilation of the Herero, 1905-1908 -- Comparative Genealogical Studies, the Characterization of Hamakari/Waterberg, and the Treatment of the Herero and Nama before the Formation of the Konzentrationslager -- Humanistic and Anti-humanistic Strands of German Imperialist Argumentation, and Their Deployment in Colonial Contexts.

Contrasting Indigenous Responses to German Settlement and the Discourse of Rebellion -- The Pursuit of German Colonial Victories at Hamakari/Waterberg (1904) and the Beginning of the Annihilation of the Herero -- The Rhetorical Invention of German Konzentrationslager in German South-West Africa and the Continued Annihilation of the Herero -- The Coercive Labor of the Work Camps and the Physical Destruction of the Herero and "Hottentot" (Nama) -- The Shark Island "Death" Camp and the Formation of Genocidal Genealogies -- The Measurement and Appropriation of Herero and Nama Bodies, the Rise of German Racial Sciences, and the Afterlife of Iconic Materials for Anti-humanist Diatribes -- Conclusion -- 5 American "Concentration" Camp Debates and Selective Remembrances of the Philippine-American War -- Forgotten American Camp Cultures, the Archives, and Contested Remembrances of the Philippine-American War -- The Battle for Manila, the "Liberation" of the Filipinos from Spanish "Oppression," and the Formation of the First American Camps -- Anti-Imperialist Critiques of Camps, American Expansionist Policies and the Discovery of the "Water Cure" Atrocities -- Public Defenses of the "Water Cure" and the Promotion of Expansionist Policies in the Philippines -- Conclusion -- 6 (Post)colonial Presents and International Humanitarian Futures: Remembering the Age of the Colonial Camps -- Colonial Camp Archives and 21st-Century Readings along and against Archival Grains -- Cuban and Spanish Remembrances of "General Weyler's" Reconcentration Camps -- British and Afrikaner Memories of the "Concentration" Camps -- Apologetic Speeches, Bones of Contention, and the Reluctant "Working Through" of German and Namibian Pasts -- Remembering and Forgetting the American Concentration Camps in the Philippines -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3.

Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Bibliography -- Books -- Book Chapters -- Popular Magazines -- Journal Articles -- Pamphlets -- Government Documents -- Dissertations -- Index.

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