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Contributors . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xi

Introduction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Capital Punishment: National Identity, the Death Penalty, and the Prospects for Abolition . . 1

PART I: WHAT IS A PENALTY OF DEATH: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN CONTEXT

1 The Green, Green Grass of Home: Capital Punishment and the Penal System from a Long-Term Perspective . . 17
2 Did Anyone Die Here?: Legal Personalities, the Supermax, and the Politics of Abolition . . 47
3 Capital Punishment as Homeowner's Insurance: The Rise of the Homeowner Citizen and the Fate of Ultimate Sanctions in Both Europe and the United States . . 78

PART II: ON THE MEANING OF DEATH AND PAIN IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES: VIEWING, WITNESSING, UNDERSTANDING

4 The Witnessing of Judgment: Between Error, Mercy, and Vindictiveness . . 109
5 Unframing the Death Penalty: Transatlantic Discourse on the Possibility of Abolition and the Execution of Saddam Hussein . . 126
6 Executions and the Debate over Abolition in France and the United States . . 150

PART III: ABOLITIONIST DISCOURSES, ABOLITIONIST STRATEGIES, ABOLITIONIST DILEMMAS: TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES

7 Civilized Rebels: Death-Penalty Abolition in Europe as Cause, Mark of Distinction, and Political Strategy . . 173
8 The Death of Dignity . . 204
9 Sovereignty and the Unnecessary Penalty of Death: European and United States Perspectives . . 236
10 European Policy on the Death Penalty . . 268
11 The Long Shadow of the Death Penalty: Mass Incarceration, Capital Punishment, and Penal Policy in the United States . . 292

Index . . 323

Preface . . v
Acknowledgments . . vii
About the Authors . . ix

1 What Is Ethics? . . 1
2 Historical Development of Ethical Reasoning . . 21
3 Understanding Ethics . . 41
4 Ethical Schools . . 59
5 Unethical Themes in Criminal Justice . . 75
6 Abuse of Authority and Power . . 93
7 Lying and Deception . . 111
8 Prejudice and Discrimination . . 137
9 Ethics and the Present Criminal Justice System . . 165
10 Ethics and Criminal Prosecutions . . 181
11 Ethics and the Police . . 203
12 Ethics and Corrections . . 221
13 Ethical Issues Involving Victims' Services . . 239

References . . 265
Index . . 275

List of illustrations . . x
Notes on contributors . . xi
Preface . . xiv
Acknowledgements . . xvi

1 Beyond de-Westernizing communication research: an introduction . . 1

PART A - Eurocentrism in communication research: the problem and its contributing factors . . 19

2 De-Westernizing communication: strategies for neutralizing cultural myths . . 1
3 Emerging global divides in media and communication theory: European universalism versus non-Western reactions . . 28
4 Globalizing media and communication studies: thoughts on the translocal and the modern . . 50
5 Orientalism, Occidentalism and communication research . . 58

PART B - The promises of focusing on the particular . . 77

6 "De-Westernizing" communication studies in Chinese societies? . . 79
7 To Westernize or not: that's NOT the question . . 93
8 Pitfalls of cross-cultural analysis: Chinese wenyi film and melodrama . . 99

PART C - From cultural specificity to cultural generality: the possibility of universal universality . . 117

9 The geography of theory and the place of knowledge: pivots, peripheries and waiting rooms . . 119
10 Journeys to the West: the making of Asian modernities . . 137
11 Moving beyond the dichotomy of communication studies: boundary wisdom as the key . . 157
12 Beyond ethnocentrism in communication theory: towards a culture-centric approach . . 172
13 Reconceptualizing de-Westernization: science of meaning as an alternative . . 189

PART D - Opportunities, limitations, and implications for future research . . 205

14 Whither Eurocentrism? Media, culture and nativism in our time . . 207
15 The production of Asian theories of communication: contexts and challenges . . 222
16 The definition and types of alternative discourses . . 238
17 After the fall of the Tower of Babel: culture-commensurability as a point of departure . . 254

Index . . 276

List of Figures . . vii
Acknowledgements . . ix
Introduction . . xi

Chapter 1 The Unfinished Revolution . . 1
Chapter 2 Completing the Revolution: History Commissions and Institutes of National Memory . . 27
Chapter 3 Criminalizing Communism?: History at Terror Sites and in Statue Parks and National Museums . . 61
Chapter 4 Containing Fascism: Anti-Communism in the Age of Holocaust Memory . . 93
Chapter 5 Remaking the Autobiography: Communists and their Pasts . . 126
Chapter 6 Victims' Stories . . 165
Chapter 7 The Afterlife of Atrocity: Remembering Red Army Rape after 1989 . . 194
Conclusion Divided Societies, Democratic Memory? . . 215

Notes . . 222
Bibliography . . 270
Index . . 291

Introduction . . 1

1 Integrity . . 15
2 Empathy . . 41
3 Emotional Intelligence . . 65
4 Vision . . 93
5 Judgment . . 117
6 Courage . . 147
7 Passion . . 173
8 A Better Way to Choose Leaders . . 199

Appendix A: Commonly Used (and Misused) Leadership Terms . . 225
Appendix B: The DNA of Leadership Competencies . . 239
Notes . . 243
Acknowledgments . . 261
About the Authors . . 267
Index . . 269