Marouf A Hasian Jr : 5 books

Book cover of Kafkaesque Laws, Nisour Square, and the Trials of the Former Blackwater Guards
by Marouf A. Hasian Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

This book provides academics and lay persons with Kafkaesque readings of our memories of the 2007 Nisour Square shootings in Iraq. The author uses critical analyses of the rise of Blackwater, support for private security firms and private contracting, prosecutorial and defense preparations and the...
Book cover of Humanitarian Aid and the Impoverished Rhetoric of Celebrity Advocacy
by Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy – from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West – this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term impacts of various forms of celebrity activism. Each...
Book cover of Representing Ebola

Representing Ebola

Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak

by Marouf A. Hasian Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016

Representing Ebola provides readers with a critical legal analysis of the recent West African Ebola Outbreak. The author argues that a review of the scientific, military, legal, economic, political, and mediated coverage of this latest outbreak highlights the ways that organizations like the World...
Book cover of President Trump and General Pershing

President Trump and General Pershing

Remembrances of the “Moro” Insurrection in the Age of Post-Truths

by Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018

This book provides a critical analysis of Donald Trump’s mention of General Pershing and his alleged use of bullets dipped in pig’s blood to kill 49 out of 50 captured Muslims during the suppression years in the Philippines. The author argues that most observers who heard this “fable” dismissed...
Book cover of Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories

by Derek Alderman, Teresa Bergman, Ethan Bottone
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes...
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