The rust belt, the maquilas, and a tale of two cities. Awards center for documentary studies at duke university. The washington office on latin america wola and duke university have named hector abads book oblivion, a memoir farrar, straus and giroux, 2012 as the winner of the 2012 woladuke human rights book award. The final award winner will be announced in january 2020. Washington office on latin america wola since 1975, when wola worked behind the scenes to write the first major legislation conditioning u. How human rights prosecutions are changing world politics awarded the robert f. The paramilitarization of colombia, jasmin hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of presentday armed conflict in colombia.
The woladuke book award was given annually by wola and duke university at an event in washington, dc from 2008 to 2016. Written by some of the most eminent researchers from and on africa. Jomarie burt schar school of policy and government. The award honored the best current fiction and nonfiction books published in english on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary latin america. Cds documentary essay prizefor the best in shortform documentary photography or writing cds filmmaker awardfor artists in competition at the full frame documentary film festival. The award will be given in the fall of 20 by wola and duke university at an event in washington, dc. The award honors the best current, nonfiction book published in english on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary latin america. The archives of dictatorship in guatemala duke university press, 2014. Kennedy book award and the woladuke book award for human rights in latin america, explores individual criminal accountability of state officials for past human rights violations. This award began in 2008 as the woladuke book award, a collaboration between the washington office on latin america wola and duke, in recognition of. Martinez won the woladuke book award for the beast in 2014. This award began in 2008 as the woladuke book award, a collaboration between the washington office on latin america wola and duke, in recognition of wolas decision to deposit its institutional papers at dukes rubenstein rare books and manuscripts library.
Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial africa edited by emily s. Broughton will be at duke university on march 23, 2017 to accept the award. He or she will also be invited to give a reading at duke university in durham, north carolina. The award honors the best current, nonfiction book published in english on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary latin. Mendez book award for human rights in latin america. The consortium in latin american and caribbean studies at. The award honors the best current, nonfiction book published in english on human rights, democracy and social justice in contemporary latin america. Wola, a human rights research duke university libraries. The rust belt, the maquilas, and a tale of two cities please join us for a reading from the book and discussion with the author. Blood and capital the paramilitarization of colombia.
This was the subject of her 2007 book, silencing civil society. The rust belt, the maquilas, and a tale of two cities oxford university press, 2016 as the winner of the 2016 woladuke human rights book award. In the same year, he was also awarded the maria moors cabot prize, which honors journalists for their outstanding coverage of the americas. The economist drew parallels with joan didions book salvador while also appreciating the translation work. A memoir by hector abad wins woladuke human rights book award.
Nominations being accepted for woladuke book award for. Nachman benyehuda, hebrew university, is the cowinner of the 2017 law and society association international award bowling green state university department of sociology, was recognized for its outstanding contributions to education with the faculty senate unit recognition award. This award began in 2008 as a collaboration between the washington office on latin america wola and duke, in recognition of wolas decision to deposit its institutional papers at dukes rubenstein rare books and manuscripts library. Kathryn sikkink with the 4th annual woladuke human rights book award for the justice cascade. Paper cadavers won the 2015 woladuke human rights book award and the 2016 best book award from the latin american studies associations recent history and memory section. The justice cascade examines how, over the last three decades, a series of highlypublicized human rights trials have started holding state leaders criminally responsible for. The rust belt, the maquilas, and a tale of two cities, oxford university press, 2016 as the winner of the 2016 woladuke human rights book award. Hector abads book oblivion, a memoir farrar, straus and giroux, 2012 begins with the authors memories of his father, dr. Wola and duke university have named kirsten welds book, paper.
The rust belt, the maquilas, and a tale of two cities oxford university press, 2016 as the winner of the 2016 wola duke human rights book award. The washington office on latin america wola and duke university have named hector abads book oblivion, a memoir farrar, straus and giroux, 2012 as the winner of the 2012 wola duke human rights book award. How human rights prosecutions are changing world politics w. Washington, dcthe washington office on latin america. Leonor blum, wola duke human rights book award committee chair and emerita professor of history and political science at notre dame. Sikkink is a regents professor and the mcknight presidential chair of political science at the university of minnesota. This award has evolved out of the woladuke human rights book award, which honored the best current fiction and nonfiction books published in english on human rights, democracy, and social justice. This award has evolved out of the wola duke human rights book award, which honored the best current fiction and nonfiction books published in english on human rights, democracy, and social justice. Woladuke 2016 human rights book award latin american. She conducts an indepth inquiry into the restructuring of the states coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal. Riding the rails and dodging narcos on the migrant trail, for which he won the woladuke human rights book award in 20, among many others. Financial times lauded the precise, empathetic and often poetic language of the writer which summons rage and pity but also admiration in the reader.
Human rights book list ohio university press swallow press. This award began in 2008 as the woladuke book award, a collaboration between the washington office on latin america wola and duke, in recognition of wola s decision to deposit its institutional papers at duke s rubenstein rare books and manuscripts library. The final woladuke book award was awarded in 2016 to chad broughton for his book boom, bust, exodus. The justice cascade wins woladuke human rights book award. In 1987, his father was murdered by colombian paramilitaries, an event he reflected on 20 years later in oblivion. Chad broughton, university of chicago, received the 2016 woladuke human rights book award on march 23 for his. Violence in society book list ohio university press. Riding the rails and dodging narcos on the migrant trail for which he was awarded the woladuke book award in 2014 and a history of violence. We encourage proposals that demonstrate multidisciplinary approaches to latin american and caribbean research.
Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in african contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. Human rights in african prisons looks at the challenges african governments face in dealing with these issues. Since 2008, duke university has celebrated stories and research about human rights in latin america by awarding, in conjunction with the washington office on latin america, the woladuke book award. Kathryn sikkink radcliffe institute for advanced study. Riding the rails and dodging narcos on the migrant trail. The washington office on latin america wola and duke university have named chad broughtons book, boom, bust, exodus. Woladuke 2016 human rights book award john hope franklin humanities institute. Duke university will take the book award to its next stage of evolution, renaming it the juan e. Boom, bust, exodus woladuke 2016 human rights book award video of chad broughton. Wola and duke university invite you to a reception for the 2016 wola duke human rights book award honoring chad broughton for boom, bust, exodus. October 2012 the washington office on latin america wola and duke university have named hector abads book oblivion, a memoir farrar, straus and giroux, 2012 as the winner of the 2012 woladuke human rights book award oblivion begins with the authors memories of his father, dr. Kirsten weld harvard university latin american history. The rust belt, the maquilas, and a tale of two cities, oxford. Reception for the 2016 woladuke human rights book award.
She conducts an indepth inquiry into the restructuring of the states coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions. Oscar martinez, the winner of the 2014 woladuke book award, gave a talk and read excerpts from the beast. Woladuke 2016 human right book award boom, bust, exodus. Wola the washington office on latin america congratulates duke university for announcing its juan e. Kennedy center book award and the woladuke university award. This award began in 2008 as a collaboration between the washington office on latin america wola and duke, in recognition of wolas. The washington office on latin america wola and duke university are proud to announce kathryn sikkinks new book the justice cascade.
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