Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire

Author/Contributor(s):	Gordon, Neve
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	08/25/2020
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with increasing frequency in noncombat contexts such as antinuclear struggles, civil and environmental protests, and even computer games. The phenomenon, however, is by no means a new one. In [this book], Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini describe how human shields have been used in key historical and contemporary moments and across geographical sites"--