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Heredia, Juanita. "Contemporary US Latino/a Literary Criticism." Latino Studies 8, no. 1 (March 2010): 138–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/lst.2010.4.
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Mariscal, Jorge. "US Latino Issues: Contemporary American Ethnic Issues." Latino Studies 4, no. 1-2 (March 2006): 166–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600178.
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Abramitzky, Ran, and Leah Boustan. "Immigration in American Economic History." Journal of Economic Literature 55, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 1311–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.20151189.
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The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This paper reviews the literatures on historical and contemporary migrant flows, yielding new insights on migrant selection, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market. (JEL J11, J15, J24, J61, N31, N32)
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Nawata, Yūji. "Towards a Global History of Culture1." Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik 51, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/ja511_135.
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Abstract Contemporary physics often speaks of “multiverses” or “parallel universes,” seriously debating whether our cosmic space is only one of many2. However many such spaces there may be, for now let us limit ourselves to the space in which we find ourselves; let us focus furthermore on the planet we are on, and further still on humanity upon this planet. Let us attempt to write a short history of the culture produced by humanity on this globe. We humans possessed and indeed possess a shared space, the globe, where a physical time common to us all passes. Let us survey the history of the world’s culture within this shared context.
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Kumm, Mattias. "Global Constitutionalism: History, Theory and Contemporary Challenges." Revista Direito e Práxis 13, no. 4 (December 2022): 2732–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2022/70784.
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Abstract Notwithstanding the political origins of constitutionalism in the west and the leading role played by the United States in the creation of the new global order after WWII, this origin of the global constitutional project does not undermine the claims to universality underlying it. After laying out a basic account of some core theoretical premises guiding global constitutionalism, the article presents a series of genealogical reflections, in which the basic project of global constitutionalism is affirmed, even as some of its concrete features and their connection to great power domination - and US domination more specifically - is critically highlighted. It concludes that the core challenge that global constitutionalism faces is not the shift of power away from the west to other geographical areas, such as Asia and South America. Its core challenge are structural inadequacies that are glossed over complacently and self-interestedly by powerful actors claiming to speak in its name and discrediting its basic ideas among those who suffer as a result.
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DeGooyer, Stephanie. "Resettling Refugee History." American Literary History 34, no. 3 (August 19, 2022): 893–911. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac095.
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Abstract This article pursues a longue durée study of the US refugee to resettle, in necessary and generative ways, contemporary interest in the refugee as representative of a current “global crisis” and as inherently tied to the unique violence of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the twentieth century is not the only thinkable or relevant period for a refugee literary history. The colonial construction of “asylum,” the word we refer today as a legal source of political protection for refugees, was in earlier times intertwined with the development of an exclusionary migration regime, vestiges of which continue to govern the reception of migrants today. The very idea of asylum, despite becoming a legal fixture of human rights law in the twentieth century, was never meant to be expansive in the US. How we make sense of this disjuncture is a serious project for literary scholarship invested in refugees and migration. The limbo that many contemporary refugees find themselves in today, in detention camps and other make-shift shelters, is tied to the US’s early fictional conception of itself as a refuge for white European foreigners.
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Borchers, Andrea T., Frank Hagie, Carl L. Keen, and M. Eric Gershwin. "The history and contemporary challenges of the US Food and Drug Administration." Clinical Therapeutics 29, no. 1 (January 2007): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinthera.2007.01.006.
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Rubin, Ashley T. "Early US Prison History Beyond Rothman: RevisitingThe Discovery of the Asylum." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 15, no. 1 (October 13, 2019): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101518-042808.
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David J. Rothman's The Discovery of the Asylum, one of the first major works to critically interrogate the beginning of America's extensive reliance on institutionalization, effectively launched the contemporary field of prison history. Rothman traced the first modern prisons’ (1820s–1850s) roots to the post-Revolution social turmoil and reformers’ desire for perfectly ordered spaces. In the nearly 50 years since his pioneering work, several generations of historians, inspired by Rothman, have amassed a wealth of information about the early prisons, much of it correcting inaccuracies and blind spots in his account. This review examines the knowledge about the rise of the prison, focusing on this post-Rothman work. In particular, this review discusses this newer work organized into three categories: the claim that prisons were an invention of Jacksonian America, reformers’ other motivations for creating and supporting prisons, and the frequently gendered and racialized experiences of prisoners. The review closes by reflecting on the importance of prison history in the contemporary context and suggesting areas for future research.
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Brown, Megan C. "Learning to Live Again: Contemporary US Memoir as Biopolitical Self-Care Guide." Biography 36, no. 2 (2013): 359–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2013.0015.
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Mironova, Tat'yana Yu. "REPRESENTATION OF HISTORY: CONTEMPORARY ART IN MUSEUMS OF CONSCIENCE." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 8 (2020): 116–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-8-116-132.
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Contemporary art more and more actively interacts with the nonartistic museums. For instance, biological, historical as well as anthropological museums become spaces for contemporary art exhibitions or initiate collaborative projects. This process seeks to link different types of materials to make the interaction successful. Thus, several questions appear: can we talk about interaction, if the museum becomes a place for the exhibition devoted to the topics of history, ethnography or biology? Does any appearance of contemporary art in the museum territory become a part of intercultural dialogue? And how do we assess and analyze the process of interaction between these two spheres? Among nonartistic museums working with contemporary art the museums of conscience appear to be one of the most interesting. This type of museums is quite new – it developed in 1990s when the International Coalition of Sites of Coscience was created and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was founded. The interaction between contemporary art and museums of conscience starts to develop in the context of changing attitudes towards historical memory as well as widening the notion of museums. In this situation museums need new instruments for educational and exhibitional work. Contemporary artists work with the past through personal memories and experience, when museums turn to documents and artifacts. So, their collaboration connects two different optics: artistic and historical. Thus, it is possible to use the Michel Foucault term dispositif to analyze the collaboration between artists and museums. Foucault defines the dispositif as a link between different elements of the system as well as optics that makes us to see and by that create the system. The term allows us to connect the questions of exhibition work with philosophical and historical issues when we analyze the projects in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Chesnais, François. "The Economic Foundations of Contemporary Imperialism." Historical Materialism 15, no. 3 (2007): 121–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920607x225906.
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AbstractThis paper argues that present-day imperialism is strongly related to the domination of a precise form of capital, namely highly concentrated interest- and dividend-bearing money-capital which operates in financial markets, breeds today's pervasive fetishism of money, but is totally dependent on surplus-value and production. Two mechanisms ensure the appropriation and/or production of surplus-product and its centralisation to the world system's financial hubs. In the 1980s, foreign debt prevailed. Foreign production and profit repatriation by TNCs now represent the main channel. Following the transfer abroad of part of its production by US TNCs, the issue for the US in their relations with the rest of the world is not the commercialisation of surplus through exports, but dependency on imports and, more crucially, on large inflows of money-capital to support the stock market, buy T-bonds and refinance mortgage. This new dependency helps to explain the 'paradox' that US imperialism is increasingly forced to try and offset this through extra-economic and even military coercion where it can.
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Ciafone, Amanda, and Devin McGeehan Muchmore. "Old Age and Radical History." Radical History Review 2021, no. 139 (January 1, 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8822566.
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Abstract This essay introduces readers to key themes in critical gerontology and age studies and asserts their centrality to contemporary history and politics. Age scholars and critical gerontologists push back against perspectives that individualize and medicalize old age as a natural or universal stage in a singular life course explained solely by biology, psychology, or personal choices. Instead, they challenge us to see contemporary life stages and even chronological age itself as historically and culturally specific structures. The contributions in this issue demonstrate the power of this approach, exploring histories of later life in the context of slave societies, retirement, social movements, and gendered embodiment. Together, contributors model a radical history of old age that centers power, historical struggle, and linked lives.
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Zakharyna, Yu Y. "Architectural images of history and culture: contemporary interpretation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Humanitarian Series 66, no. 1 (February 25, 2021): 87–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.29235/2524-2369-2021-66-1-87-96.
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The problem of recreating historical and cultural events and phenomena in architectural images is raised for the first time in Belarusian art criticism. The work is devoted to the scientific understanding of images of modern architectural objects that reflect the theme of history and culture in the context of the simulated environment of society. Images of modern architecture are interpreted from the point of view of reflecting the world picture in their content and visualizing the memory of peoples about the historical past and cultural assets of human civilization. The research is based on an artistic and imaginative concept that allows us to interpret objects of modern architecture in the unity of three principles – as a cultural phenomenon of the digital age, as a cultural and historical phenomenon, as well as a way, form and product of mastering and reflecting reality. The article reveals the peculiarities of interpretation of historical and cultural themes in the imagery of modern buildings. The research focuses on the technological aspect of building modeling in the context of figurative architecture of the digital age. Through the deciphering of parables, the ideas of a person and society about spiritual values are revealed.
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Sarty, Leigh. "Us and them: East–West relations reconsidered." International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis 76, no. 2 (June 2021): 315–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00207020211017182.
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This paper frames the contemporary challenge of the People’s Republic of China in the context of Cold War history. It shows how apparent echoes of the past—Beijing's continued embrace of “socialism;” a partnership with Russia that recalls the Sino–Soviet alliance—help illuminate the sources and nature of present-day East–West conflict, and suggests that Francis Fukuyama's much-pilloried “End of History?” has been misunderstood. Viewing the twenty-first-century standoff with Chinese (and Russian) authoritarianism in historical perspective, the paper concludes, casts prospects for the West more positively than recent conventional wisdom would suggest.
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Genuis, Stephen J. "What's Out There Making Us Sick?" Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2012 (2012): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/605137.
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Throughout the continuum of medical and scientific history, repeated evidence has confirmed that the main etiological determinants of disease are nutritional deficiency, toxicant exposures, genetic predisposition, infectious agents, and psychological dysfunction. Contemporary conventional medicine generally operates within a genetic predestination paradigm, attributing most chronic and degenerative illness to genomic factors, while incorporating pathogens and psychological disorder in specific situations. Toxicity and deficiency states often receive insufficient attention as common source causes of chronic disease in the developed world. Recent scientific evidence in health disciplines including molecular medicine, epigenetics, and environmental health sciences, however, reveal ineluctable evidence that deficiency and toxicity states feature prominently as common etiological determinants of contemporary ill-health. Incorporating evidence from historical and emerging science, it is evident that a reevaluation of conventional wisdom on the current construct of disease origins should be considered and that new knowledge should receive expeditious translation into clinical strategies for disease management and health promotion.
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Tomsic, Mary, and Claire Marika Deery. "Creating “them” and “us”." History of Education Review 48, no. 1 (June 3, 2019): 46–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-11-2018-0027.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the contemporary “refugee crisis” is being presented to children through picture books and teaching materials. It uses the concept of refugeedom as an approach that takes into account the multiple facets involved in the forced movement of people in the past and present and seeks to show the value of historical understandings in educational contexts when framing resources for teachers and students. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines a sample of high-profile English language picture books about children’s stories of forced displacement and the most prominent freely available teaching materials connected to the books. A critical discursive analysis of the books and educative guides considers the ways in which ideas and information about forced displacement is framed for child readers and children in primary school classrooms. The context for the authors’ interest in exploring these books and educational resources is that in response to the numbers of children who are part of the current “refugee crisis” alongside a public call for the “crisis” to be explained to children. Findings The paper argues that picture books open up spaces for children to explore refugeedom through experiences of forced movement and various factors involved in the contemporary “refugee crisis”. In contrast, in the teaching resources and some peritextual materials, the child in the classroom is addressed as entirely disconnected from children who are forcibly displaced, students in classrooms are positioned to learn from the refugee “other”. When links are made between students in classroom and children who have been forcibly displaced it is through activities that position students in classrooms to imagine themselves as forcibly displaced, or to suggest they act within a humanitarian framework of welcoming or helping refugees. The authors believe that if teaching resources were more directly informed by discipline specific tools of historical concepts, more nuanced approaches to past and present histories of forced movement could be considered and from that more fruitful learning opportunities created for all students. Practical implications This research provides ideas about how materials to support the use of picture books in educational settings could be developed to promote historical thinking and contextualisation around key social and political issues in the world today. It also makes the case for historians to be involved in the creation of teaching materials in a collaborative way so that academic insights can be brought to teachers and students at all levels of education. Originality/value The value of this research is to understand how children are positioned in reading and learning about forced displacement and query the impact of decontextualised approaches to learning. It argues for the critical interpretative value that historical understanding can bring to present day issues which are history in the making.
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Hunter, Walt. "Contemporary Poetry and Capitalism." American Literary History 31, no. 4 (2019): 860–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz039.
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Abstract The field of poetry and poetics has been revitalized by a decade and a half of close attention to many of its enduring premises and assumptions. Three new books by Jasper Bernes, Margaret Ronda, and Heather Milne show how US poetry from 1945 to the present responds to the changing conditions of historical capitalism. Departing from older periodizing narratives anchored in the shift from modernism to postmodernism, these books uncover the poetic histories that emerge in tandem with changes in economic structures and political regimes.
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Hwang, Maria Cecilia, and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas. "Not Every Family: Selective Reunification in Contemporary US Immigration Laws." International Labor and Working-Class History 78, no. 1 (2010): 100–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547910000153.
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AbstractThis article questions the notion that family reunification is the cornerstone of US immigration policies and points to the violation of the right to family reunification in US law. It specifically looks at the forcible separation of legal residents from their families, including foreign domestic workers in the Labor Certification Program; US-born children with undocumented relatives, including parents and siblings; and guest workers. We argue that the growing influence of nationalist politics and big businesses trumps the interests of the family in US immigration policies, resulting in the prolonged and forcible separation of working-class and poor migrant families.
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Gayduk, Vladislava L. "THE HISTORY OF THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ON YAKIMANKA. ARCHIVE OPTICS." Articult, no. 3 (2021): 81–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2227-6165-2021-3-81-95.
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The history of the Center for Contemporary Art on Yakimanka is analyzed through the prism of archival documents that are stored in the Media Library of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The investigation of the all types of the archival documents allows us to consider the Centre for contemporary art not as an art institution but as the embodiment of the “artistic tusovka”. This term was suggested by Victor Misiano. The magnitude of the exhibition and other art projects that were created in the Center (the newspaper of contemporary art “Vernisage”, the magazine “Artograph”, the Curators’ workshop, Visual Anthropology workshop, etc.) confirms this hypothesis. Despite the weak institutional ties that characterize artistic tusovka, the Centre became one of the important milestones in the development of contemporary Russian art.
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Toscano, Alberto. "Capital (It Fails Us Now)." Historical Materialism 23, no. 1 (March 25, 2015): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-12341400.
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This introduction to Historical Materialism’s mini-symposium on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century places the three contributions by Husson, Mann and Roberts in the context of an exploration of the link between methodology and politics in Piketty’s economic history of inequality. Touching on the role of time and literature in Piketty’s argument, as well as on his difficulty in accounting for the relations of capital – especially ones originating in colonialism and empire – it approaches Piketty’s book, and its success, in terms of its concerted effort to produce a cognitive mapping of contemporary capitalism that can serve as a prelude to its democratic reform.
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Abdullah, Anzar. "Contemporary History of Indonesia between Historical Truth and Group Purpose." Review of European Studies 7, no. 12 (November 23, 2015): 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v7n12p179.
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<p>Contemporary history is the very latest history at which the historic event traces are close and still encountered by us at the present day. As a just away event which seems still exists, it becomes controversial about when the historical event is actually called contemporary. Characteristic of contemporary history genre is complexity of an event and its interpretation. For cases in Indonesia, contemporary history usually begins from 1945. It is so because not only all documents, files and other primary sources have not been uncovered and learned by public yet where historical reconstruction can be made in a whole, but also a fact that some historical figures and persons are still alive. This last point summons protracted historical debate when there are some collective or personal memories and political consideration and present power. The historical facts are often provided to please one side, while disagreeable fact is often hidden from other side. The article aims to discuss some subject matter of contemporary history in Indonesia as they are printed in history textbook for school, along with varies issues. The article will make correction about context of some issues that they actually used as discussion topic among teachers of history. In the last part of this article, it will outline on how we respond to contemporary history of Indonesia. Conclusion is made that in context of contemporary history in Indonesia, it found two interests, i.e. for historical truth and group purpose.</p>
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Podolsky, Scott H., Robert Bud, Christoph Gradmann, Bård Hobaek, Claas Kirchhelle, Tore Mitvedt, María Jesús Santesmases, Ulrike Thoms, Dag Berild, and Anne Kveim Lie. "History Teaches Us That Confronting Antibiotic Resistance Requires Stronger Global Collective Action." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 43, S3 (2015): 27–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jlme.12271.
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Antibiotic development and usage, and antibiotic resistance in particular, are today considered global concerns, simultaneously mandating local and global perspectives and actions. Yet such global considerations have not always been part of antibiotic policy formation, and those who attempt to formulate a globally coordinated response to antibiotic resistance will need to confront a history of heterogeneous, often uncoordinated, and at times conflicting reform efforts, whose legacies remain apparent today. Historical analysis permits us to highlight such entrenched trends and processes, helping to frame contemporary efforts to improve access, conservation and innovation.
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Rajkumari, Yaisna. "Manipuri Lores: Folktales, Cultural History and Anthologies." International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 7, no. 3 (September 2021): 140–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2021.7.3.301.
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The paper will establish a connection between folktales and the cultural history of a region, particularly with respect to the Indian state of Manipur. It is premised on the belief that a study of folktales can alert us not only to the various interconnections between folktales and the cultural history of a place but also help analyse the dynamics of the publication of the anthologies of folktales in relation to this cultural history. The paper will include analyses of Meitei and tribal tales pertaining to the nationalist phase and contemporary period in the history of the North Eastern Indian state of Manipur and look at how in the past few years, compilers and translators have incorporated versions of tales different from the earlier anthologies, establishing a direct link between the tales and the times of their publication.
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Clapp, Jennifer. "Fighting Hunger: The Cold War and US Foreign Aid." Perspectives on Politics 11, no. 2 (May 21, 2013): 529–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592713001126.
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History holds important insights for political scientists concerned with contemporary international development issues. Michael E. Latham and Nick Cullather's recent historical accounts of US foreign policy toward developing countries provide excellent examples of the significance of understanding the past in order to interpret the present. Both books highlight the ways in which strategic concerns of the US government during the Cold War shaped its international aid policies.
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Moreira, Ana Isabel, Luís Alberto Alves, and Pedro Duarte. "Teaching (History) in the 21st Century." Estudos Ibero-Americanos 48, no. 1 (October 24, 2022): e42928. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1980-864x.2022.1.42928.
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Contemporary thinking in Education must go beyond what is already known and feed on a utopian vision. Regardless of the contents, the change needs to happen, within the pedagogical practice above anything else: listening more and talking less; embracing new perspectives and different readings from well-known authors; preparing our interlocutors (students) to face the unforeseen and the uncertainty with optimism. In Basic and Secondary Education, this circumstance assumes the characteristics of a historical thinking and a historical consciousness progressively more sophisticated and, therefore, coincident with a reading of the world desirably more complex and humanistic. In Higher Education, it is crucial that future teachers perceive the relevance of that attitude of change. Based on these contemporary educational potentialities and challenges, we intend to discuss possible paths to consider, today, a teaching of History that allows us to design new futures or other competencies.
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Orozco-Figueroa, Araceli. "The Historical Trauma and Resilience of Individuals of Mexican Ancestry in the United States: A Scoping Literature Review and Emerging Conceptual Framework." Genealogy 5, no. 2 (March 29, 2021): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5020032.
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Recently, Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) have encountered an escalation in adverse social conditions and trauma events in the United States. For individuals of Mexican ancestry in the United States (IMA-US), these recent events represent the latest chapter in their history of adversity: a history that can help us understand their social and health disparities. This paper utilized a scoping review to provide a historical and interdisciplinary perspective on discussions of mental health and substance use disorders relevant to IMA-US. The scoping review process yielded 16 peer reviewed sources from various disciplines, published from 1998 through 2018. Major themes included historically traumatic events, inter-generational responses to historical trauma, and vehicles of transmission of trauma narratives. Recommendations for healing from historical and contemporary oppression are discussed. This review expands the clinical baseline knowledge relevant to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of contemporary traumatic exposures for IMA-US.
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Nereson, Ariel. "Myself, Dancing: Choreographies of Black Womanhood in US Dance and History." Dance Research Journal 53, no. 2 (August 2021): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767721000140.
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AbstractThis essay analyzes Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's 2009 work Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray and its centering of Black women in US American history and contemporary choreographic practices. While the work's revisionist representation of national history could be understood as activist in terms of its desire to activate the spectator, this essay centers what performance might do for Black women performers and their personal practices of artistry and activism over what impulses toward social justice Black women's performances might galvanize in their audiences. Attributing FDWH's transformative potential to its aesthetic combination of postmodernism and sentimentalism and its erotic historiography, I theorize the work as a choreohistory, a mode of cultural production wherein the ordering of movement and the ordering of the past interanimate one another.
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Marega, Stella. "Apocalyptic Trends in Contemporary Politics." Estudios, no. 35 (December 5, 2017): 411. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/re.v0i35.31619.
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The symbol of apocalypse contains strong political connotations linked to eschatological expectations: the faith in a divine intervention on the course of history has often generated social instability, outbreaks of violence, and ideological claims.This article aims to demonstrate as the overlap between apocalyptic symbolism and political phenomena is still ongoing, even assuming new critical implications in connection with recent geopolitical dynamics on a global scale.The detection of the apocalyptic trends is supported by a historical premise, a brief summary of theoretical perspectives, and three study cases: the presence of messianic aspects in US imperialism, the influence of the doctrine of the Hidden Imam in the Iranian politics during the Ahmadinejad presidency, and the use of apocalyptic prophecies in the Islamic State’s propaganda
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Williams, Rhys H. "Public Islam in the Contemporary World: A View on the American Case." Tidsskrift for Islamforskning 8, no. 1 (February 23, 2014): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/tifo.v8i1.25323.
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The article reviews the status of the highly diverse community of American Muslims, with reference to US national identity and immigration history, history of Islam in the USA, and civil society organization. It is found that on average, and after the civil right movement of the 1960s, Muslims are very well assimilated into the US society and economy, in which the specific American civil society and religious organizations play an important enabling part, providing networks and inroads to society for newcomers as well as vehicles for preserving ethniccultural distinctiveness. This broad pattern of development has not changed in the aftermath of 9/11 and ensuing wars on terror. Compared with the Nordic context, where Muslims are often considered challenging to a secular social order, American Muslims do not stand out as more or differently religious, or any less American, than other religious communities. It is tentatively concluded that, downsides apart, US national identity and civil society structure could be more favorable for the social integration of Muslims than the Nordic welfare state model.
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Dzenko, Corey. "Continuing to Work toward US Manhood." Men and Masculinities 20, no. 1 (July 25, 2016): 3–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x15604687.
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For his large-scale, color series The Struggle to Right Oneself (begun in 2002), contemporary performance-photographer Kerry Skarbakka depicts himself falling in order to discuss personal and broader social instabilities, such as the “falling” reputation of the United States and the politics of identity. Although his white, male body in this precarious act suggests the potential loss of control of white masculinity, I argue that his work reinstates ideals of manhood in numerous ways. By analyzing the performative making of the series, the images themselves, and Skarbakka’s presentations after he has made them, I examine how white masculinity continues as a highly operative, but un(der)examined, position in the contemporary United States. In particular, the construction of white masculinity in this series is furthered through the long-established tropes of “work” and failure while the myth that certain bodies circulate without embodied particularities—a dangerous myth cultivated by, and necessary for, neoliberal ideologies—continues.
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Goodman, Brian K. "The Ends of Human Rights in US Literary Studies." American Literary History 31, no. 2 (2019): 356–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz015.
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Abstract How has contemporary US literature responded to the rapid rise and subsequent decline of human rights in US political discourse? In this essay-review, I examine two recent works—James Dawes’s The Novel of Human Rights (2018) and Crystal Parikh’s Writing Human Rights (2017)—that each bring a critical human rights approach to the study of contemporary US literatures. The essay begins by describing the emergence of the subfield of literature and human rights and its original investment in methodologies of ideology critique. I then show how Dawes and Parikh each adopt a dialectical method to investigate the contradictory relationship between a subset of contemporary American novels and a US-centric, liberal conception of human rights, while also mapping the emergence of new generic forms. But can new kinds of stories transform human rights in practice? To address this question, the essay next examines the role of literature in recent historiographic debates about the origins of human rights in order to argue for a literary-historical turn in the subfield of literature and human rights. Calling for new work that grounds the subfield’s ongoing critique of human rights representations in specific historical practices of the human rights, I conclude by briefly considering Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987) alongside her involvement with the human rights movement. Can a search for literary precursors help us imagine a different future for human rights?
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Parks, Justin. "Reading and Teaching Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution beyond National Borders." American Studies in Scandinavia 49, no. 2 (October 31, 2017): 93–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v49i2.5677.
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This essay discusses Cathy Park Hong’s book-length poem Dance Dance Revolution (2007) in the context of the transnational turn in American studies. The essay discusses the ways in which the text thematizes history and language in its representation of contemporary global issues and argues that Dance Dance Revolution provides an important context for discussing issues and conflicts arising between the contemporary West and its discontents, and for interrogating modes of global cultural and linguistic fluidity. It then draws on the author’s experience of teaching the text in an advanced undergraduate course at a Finnish university as it examines the applicability of a transnational approach to teaching US literature and cultural studies in a contemporary European context.
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Rahman, Mohammad Sajjadur, and Saimum Parvez. "Taming the Persians :." Jindal Journal of International Affairs 1, no. 1 (October 1, 2011): 31–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54945/jjia.v1i1.6.
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Public diplomacy is going through perplexing changes and challenges due to technological innovations and renewed interest in the ‘soft power’ approach. This article analyses the methods and tactics of US public diplomacy regarding Iran. It discusses the close relationship between propaganda and public diplomacy and how different tactics and initiatives have been employed by the US in order to assist pro-democracy campaigns within Iran. The history of US broadcasting in Iran is also discussed to shed light on the changing dimensions of public diplomacy. However, the article argues that the intricacies of contemporary methods of communications and the diversities of the audiences in Iran can offset American propaganda techniques. It suggests from contemporary history that Cold War-style public diplomacy may not work in the case of Iran, since younger Persians have access to alternative viewpoints that neutralise or refract the effects of Western propaganda.
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Honner, John. "Not Meddling with Divinity: Theological Worldviews and Contemporary Physics." Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies 1, no. 3 (October 1988): 251–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1030570x8800100302.
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The history of the relationship between theology and physics shows moods varying between détente and dalliance. Important theological issues cannot be articulated without implicit reference to a physical worldview. Modern physics challenges us to revise the classical Newtonian way of looking at the world as a stable, causal mechanism of isolated objects. And physics today is possibly offering a worldview in which a synthesis of physics and metaphysics is again feasible.
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Hendrickson, David C. "American diplomatic history and international thought: a constitutional perspective." International Relations 31, no. 3 (September 2017): 322–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047117817723067.
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This essay offers a constitutional perspective on the American encounter with the problem of international order. Its point of departure is the American Founding, a subject often invisible in both the history of international thought and contemporary International Relations theory. Although usually considered as an incident within the domestic politics of the United States, the Founding displays many key ideas that have subsequently played a vital role in both international political thought and IR theory. The purpose of this essay is to explore these ideas and to take account of their passage through time, up to and including the present day. Those ideas shine a light not only on how we organize our scholarly enterprises but also on the contemporary direction of US foreign policy and the larger question of world order.
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Davies, Vanessa. "Pauline Hopkins’ Literary Egyptology." Journal of Egyptian History 14, no. 2 (December 17, 2021): 127–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10006.
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Abstract Author Pauline Hopkins produced work in a variety of genres: short stories, novels, a musical, a primer of facts. Like other African Americans of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, she engaged with the history of the Nile Valley before the discipline of Egyptology was firmly established in the sphere of higher education in the US. Her serialized novel Of One Blood, published in 1902 and 1903, draws on a variety of sources, such as the English historian George Rawlinson, to tell a fictionalized story set in the contemporary present of the Upper Nile and to address issues related to the ancient past of that region. Her main character, Reuel, embodies links across time—ancient and contemporary—and space—the United States and the Nile River Valley. Through him, she shows the power and relevance of ancient history to contemporary life.
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Di Crosta, Marida, and Anita Leandro. "Story, History and Intercultural Memory." Non-fiction Transmedia 5, no. 10 (December 31, 2016): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2016.jethc109.
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How can transmedia storytelling benefit to a documentary production in order to give historical archives a second life? Could it possibly help updating official archives, adding to the them amateur’s contributions? We will try to answer the question by recalling some recent European experiences of Web-documentaries linked to television series. This will allows us to extrapolate a few theoretical fundamentals underlying the design of our transcontinental transmedia collaborative project of archive-based documentary – Histories of Brazil. Our aim is to show how a transmedia approach to archive-based content, intervening in contemporary digital interconnected environments, can work as a dynamic complementary tool for developing and sharing historical knowledge.
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Sparks, Matthew Ryan. "‘The Fire Does Not Disturb Us’." Anthropology of the Middle East 16, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 91–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ame.2021.160205.
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Abstract This article examines the contemporary qaṣīda poetry of South Sinai Muzīna Bedouin women from an anthropological perspective, drawing primarily upon a history of emotions framework, as well as Bedouin ethnographic studies and Arabic literary criticism. The article argues that the composition and vocalisation of qaṣīda poetry in South Sinai is more than a performative art; it is a means of ‘navigating’ one's emotions as a woman in a patriarchal society where emotional expression for both men and women is deemed inappropriate. In the poetry of Nādiyyah and Umm ‘Īd, we gain insight into the subjective lived experience of Bedouin women in South Sinai, as they attempt to poetically express their desire, elation, grief and passion, while simultaneously demonstrating their ability to ‘control’ their emotional states.
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SCOTT, Shirley V. "Inserting Visions of Justice into a Contemporary History of International Law." Asian Journal of International Law 4, no. 1 (January 2014): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2044251313000453.
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AbstractThe history of international law is often told in terms of the rise and fall of great powers or as a mechanism of colonial subjugation. To the extent that these accounts consider justice, it is usually to demonstrate its absence. This paper points out that justice has been integral to the evolution of international law in the era of the United States. Individuals and members of civil society in the US and Europe have influenced systemic developments in international law through their efforts to realize a vision of justice in interstate relations, their vision being of a body of international law and a world court which together obviate the need for war. To suggest the possibility of an historical narrative constructed around justice is not to deny the validity of other histories focused on inequitable relations of power, but to point to the scope for nuance in the frameworks within which we portray international law and its history.
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PRICHARD, ALEX. "What can the absence of anarchism tell us about the history and purpose of International Relations?" Review of International Studies 37, no. 4 (September 2, 2010): 1647–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210510001075.
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AbstractAnarchism does not feature in contemporary international relations (IR) as a discreet approach to world politics because until very recently it was antithetical to the traditional use-value of a discipline largely structured around the needs and intellectual demands of providing for the world's Foreign Offices and State Departments. This article tells part of the story of how this came to be so by revisiting the historiography of the discipline and an early debate between Harold Laski and Hans Morgenthau. What I will show here is that Morgenthau's Schmittian-informed theory of the nation state was diametrically opposed to Laski's Proudhon-informed pluralist state theory. Morgenthau's success and the triumph of Realism structured the subsequent evolution of the discipline. What was to characterise the early stages of this evolution was IR's professional and intellectual statism. The subsequent historiography of the discipline has also played a part in retrospectively keeping anarchism out. This article demonstrates how a return to this early debate and the historiography of the discipline opens up a little more room for anarchism in contemporary IR and suggests further avenues for research.
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Campbell, Lynda. "Children Australia …: Keeping us focused and connected." Children Australia 30, no. 2 (2005): 7–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200010634.
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Children Australia is a friendly journal. It is accessible, readable, contemporary, and straight forward. It has always been intended as a forum for practitioners and external commentators alike. The editorial policy has been relatively relaxed, with assistance provided to ensure a good spread of contributors. A quick scan of papers published over the last four years shows a predominance of papers from academics, primarily within schools of social work. These are enriched by contributions from writers from community development, youth services, child development, psychology, policy studies and history, often giving an extra critical slant or a sharp specialist focus that might otherwise be conspicuously missing. Personally, I really appreciate this interdisciplinary conversation and hope it will be preserved and developed.
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Nielsen, Niels Kayser. "Historiekultur – Helsingfors som case." Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, no. 60 (March 9, 2018): 119–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/sl.v0i60.103993.
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With Helsinki as a case, this article deals with the appropriation of history and the political use of history. The attitude towards history comprehends both a contemporary reflexive awareness of and responsibility towards history with a submission of history as intention, and a common sense-attitude which an acknowledgement of history as a past which is fundamentally different from us. The main point is that people normally oscillate between these two relations to history, bound to special situations and needs.
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Stein, Sharon. "Confronting the Racial-Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education." Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education 3 (2018): 077–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4105.
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Aim/Purpose: This paper invites readers to engage with analyses that diagnose the racial-colonial foundations of US universities as the root cause of many contemporary higher education challenges. To do so, it traces the “underside” of violence that subsidized three moments in US higher education history: the colonial era; land-grant legislation; and the post-War “golden age.” I argue that confronting these foundational violences, and our complicity in them, is a necessary part of any effort to unravel the harmful inherited patterns of representation, relationship, and resource distribution that continue to shape the present. Methodology: This conceptual article reads mainstream histories of US higher education against the grain, and in conversation with critiques offered by decolonial and critical ethnic studies, in an effort to address the historical and ongoing racial-colonial conditions of possibility for our institutions. Contribution: This paper contributes to scholarship on the foundations of higher education by inviting engagements with often-disavowed dimensions of those foundations. Findings: Many of US higher education’s greatest achievements have not merely happened alongside, but have also been subsidized by racial-colonial dispossession. The fact that the higher education field rarely addresses these entangled histories may not be primarily due to a lack of information, but rather due to strong affective, material, and intellectual investments in the continuation of existing systems. Recommendations for Practitioners: In addition to pluralizing our analyses of higher education’s foundations, scholars and practitioners will need to grapple with the difficulties and discomforts of facing up to the contemporary implications of those foundations. Recommendation for Researchers: As for practitioners, in addition to pluralizing our analyses of higher education’s foundations, scholars and practitioners will need to grapple with the difficulties and discomforts of facing up to the contemporary implications of those foundations. Future Research: With regard to both the ethical imperatives and political efficacy of responding to contemporary challenges, further research is needed that traces both the continuities and disjunctures between the past and the present of higher education.
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Nimbolkar, Vivek, and Alka Khade. "TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 7, no. 11 (November 30, 2019): 154–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i11.2019.3728.
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Before there was an art of abstract painting, it was already widely believed that the value of a picture was a matter of colors and shapes alone. Music and architecture were constantly held up to painters as examples of a pure art which did not have to imitate objects but derived its effects from elements peculiar to itself. But such ideas could not be readily accepted, since no one had yet seen a painting made up of colors and shapes, representing nothing. If pictures of the objects around us were often judged according to qualities of form alone, it was obvious that in doing so one was distorting or reducing the pictures; you could not arrive at these paintings simply by manipulating forms. And in so far as the objects to which these forms belonged were often particular individuals and places, real or mythical figures, bearing the evident marks of a time, the pretension that art was above history through the creative energy or personality of the artist was not entirely clear. In abstract art, however, the pretended autonomy and absoluteness of the aesthetic emerged in a concrete form. Here, finally, was an art of painting in which only aesthetic elements seem to be present.
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Weiss, Katherine. "‘Of her tenacious trace’: Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art." Journal of Beckett Studies 30, no. 2 (September 2021): 174–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2021.0339.
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This chapter explores how three contemporary artists, Claire-Lise Holy, Dorothy Cross and Arlene Shechet, have been inspired by Samuel Beckett's prose and drama, works that foreground the need and agony for being perceived and the desire to be still and silent. Holy, Cross and Shechet take up Beckett's themes of gaze and petrification, particularly as seen in Beckett's works for women. For these contemporary artists, distilling the female form on paper, canvas, stone, or video is an act of creating a trace, inviting the viewer to participate, looking upon their women with empathy. Holy, whose drawings of antiquated women resemble those of Beckett's late plays, shares with Beckett the need for us to see these women. Cross, too, draws on the importance of seeing and remaining, inviting us to act our part in recognising that we are only a moment in ancient history. Her female forms, inspired by Footfalls, recede, and as they do so, we are tempted to follow. Drawn to Happy Days, Shechet asks that we look forward beginning conversations about the here, now, and the future. She asks that in the process, creatures like Winnie who cry out, are not forgotten. For this to happen, our gaze must go beyond objectifying Winnie. These artists, like Beckett, challenge us to see differently – a empathic gaze that never forgets.
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Thurman, Deborah. "Sula’s Compromise: Toni Morrison and the Editorial Politics of Sensitivity." MELUS 46, no. 2 (May 6, 2021): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab016.
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Abstract An accomplished editor in her own right, Toni Morrison made no secret of her dissatisfaction with the editing of Sula (1973), whose opening pages she critiqued as a regrettable concession to white publishers and white readers. Yet despite Morrison’s prominence in recent studies of African American book history, scholars have yet to fully explore how the contested revisions to Sula impact the novel and what they reveal about racially motivated editing practices in mainstream US publishing. This article situates Sula’s publication history as an exemplary archive of editorial conflict, one that illuminates shifting editorial approaches to race in American fiction amid the rise of US multiculturalism. Tracing Morrison’s responses to editorial disputes about Sula and Beloved (1987), this article argues that her career indexes the emergence of racial sensitivity as an editorial concern in contemporary publishing, anticipating contemporary conflicts over formal sensitivity editing as a specialized mode of manuscript review.
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Wahlström Henriksson, Helena, Elizabeth Kella, and Maria Holmgren Troy. "Bilda familj: Om föräldralösa barn, släktskap och nationsskapande i samtida amerikanska romaner." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 35, no. 4 (June 10, 2022): 11–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v35i4.3247.
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The article explores orphan children as central characters in a broad and multi-ethnic selection of contemporary US novels. It focuses on how the fictional orphan child carries culture-specific meanings related both to social history and literary history in the US, and demonstrates that meanings of orphanhood depend on dimensions of power, especially gender, race, class, and nationality. Such meanings are also connected to the particular ways that family and nation are interlinked in US political and social history. Although orphans are a common element in much US literature and popular culture across genres and centuries, we argue that they become especially prevalent in fiction during the 1980s - 2010s, a period of perceived national crisis. In contemporary novels by Native American, African American, and white Euro-American authors, orphans sometimes represent a wish for inclusion in family and nation, at other times a rejection of (especially patriarchal) family and nation. The complex meanings of the orphan child are further compounded by the various functions of this figure in the novels, as emotional resource for adults, as threat to a certain social order, as critique of practices of child removal and of racism, or as symbol of national trauma and recovery, functions that point to the flexibility of this literary figure. Fictional orphans, we hold, “build kinship” in alternative ways that open up possibilities for rethinking familial as well as national belonging. In the process of problematizing the limits of family and nation, and how such limits can be transgressed or maintained, the contemporary novels in our selection revise gendered genre traditions, thereby contributing to an ongoing discussion about meanings of “American literature” as well as of “America” as such.
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Popa Blanariu, Nicoleta. "Transmedial Prometheus: from the Greek Myth to Contemporary Interpretations." Revista ICONO14 Revista científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías emergentes 15, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 88–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v15i1.1040.
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The myth of Prometheus is well known for its rich polymorphism, celebrating the Titan’s contest with the Olympian gods and its demythisation in the contemporary era. To Ernst Bloch “Faust and Prometheus are the major figures of the Renaissance”, while Gilbert Durand describes the relationship between myth and history as a backwards “evhemerism” which enables a messianic reading of the Promethean symbol, especially at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the following. From the Renaissance to the 20th century, the Promethean symbol slides transmedially from the verbalized narrative towards visual arts. With the exhaustion of the Promethean momentum, for Durand as well as Maffesoli, the 20th century assumes the decadent myths of Dionysus and, eventually, a vast Hermetic mythology. This paper highlights several moments and works which marked the dynamic history of the mythical hero, as revealed to us by Aeschylus, Shelley, Goethe, Gide, Ridley Scott etc.
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Gindis, David. "Conceptualizing the business corporation: insights from history." Journal of Institutional Economics 16, no. 5 (June 1, 2020): 569–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744137420000235.
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AbstractThe purpose of this symposium is to shed light on the genealogy of the idea of a business corporation, an economic institution which has long been regarded with a mixture of awe and apprehension. Each of the four original contributions addresses the history of some of its key features. In the process, each contributor reveals some of the insights that history has to teach us regarding the central concepts that inform contemporary debates about the nature of the corporation, the contours of the corporation's purpose, the sources of corporate power, the functions of corporate law, the duties of directors, the status of shareholders, and the legitimacy of corporate rights.
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Dálnoky, Réka. "Gianina Cărbunariu: 20/20 : A kortárs erdélyi magyar színházi szövegalkotás kérdései." Theatron 14, no. 3 (2020): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.55502/the.2020.3.45.
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Gianina Cărbunariu’s performance titled 20/20 serves as a point of reference both in the oeuvre of the writer-director, and in the history of Romanian experimental theatre, political theatre, Romanian-Hungarian co-productions, and the history of the Targu Mures Studio Yorick. Analysing the performance allows us to examine some key questions of contemporary Transylvanian Hungarian theatrical text creation.