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The most prominent Christian theologian and exegete of the third century, Origen was also an influential teacher. In the famed Thanksgiving Address, one of his students delivered an emotionally charged account of his tutelage in Roman Palestine. This analysis of the text sheds new light on higher education in the early Church.

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. This book shows how their policing practices imultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something "twilight".

Do the United States and France, both post-industrial democracies, differ in their views and laws concerning discrimination? This book examines the differences in how the two countries approach discrimination.

How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? The author analyzes more than three thousand news reports and opinion pieces to show the dramatic differences in the framing of mass violence around the world and across social fields.

How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? This title deals with these queries.