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Affiche du document Mapping Post-War Italian Literature — Mapping Post-War Italian Literature
Giulia Brecciaroli
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In the aftermath of the reconstruction period immediately after the Second World War, Italy experienced an unprecedented and unexpected phase of economic development, which transformed it from a traditionally agrarian and impoverished country into one of Europe’s most industrialized nations. The idea, treasured to this day by many Italians, of this period as a sort of ‘golden age’ has increasingly been called into question by historical research that has delved into the deeper, persistent contradictions of Italian society at the time. Mapping Post-War Italian Literature embraces the boom years and their legacy, exploring the long-lasting impact of post-war Italy’s urbanization and modernization on the imagination of Italian writers. It does so by looking at how socio-spatial transformations affecting the main industrial cities of the North – Milan and Turin – as well as the provinces (a space generally deemed ‘peripheral’) and the national landscape have been conceptualized in contemporary novels and travel accounts. The selected texts cross genre boundaries and reflect an array of authorial positions, giving a compelling and multifaceted account of the post-war historical transition.

Mapping Post-War Italian Literature
Giulia Brecciaroli
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In the aftermath of the reconstruction period immediately after the Second World War, Italy experienced an unprecedented and unexpected phase of economic development, which transformed it from a traditionally agrarian and impoverished country into one of Europe’s most industrialized nations. The idea, treasured to this day by many Italians, of this period as a sort of ‘golden age’ has increasingly been called into question by historical research that has delved into the deeper, persistent contradictions of Italian society at the time. Mapping Post-War Italian Literature embraces the boom years and their legacy, exploring the long-lasting impact of post-war Italy’s urbanization and modernization on the imagination of Italian writers. It does so by looking at how socio-spatial transformations affecting the main industrial cities of the North – Milan and Turin – as well as the provinces (a space generally deemed ‘peripheral’) and the national landscape have been conceptualized in contemporary novels and travel accounts. The selected texts cross genre boundaries and reflect an array of authorial positions, giving a compelling and multifaceted account of the post-war historical transition.

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Affiche du document Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America — Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America
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Religions et spiritualité
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This interdisciplinary volume brings together approaches from history, theology, cultural studies, architecture, sociology, and anthropology to reevaluate the legacy and significance of liberation theology in Latin America.Liberation theology was born in the 1960s at a time of Church renewal and socio-economic ferment, as many sought radical solutions to the perceived exhaustion of developmentalist projects and the institutionalised violence of capitalism and dependency. By focussing on praxis – the lived experiences, spiritual, and embodied practices of those engaged in social action – the book challenges the assumption that liberation theology had reached its twilight by the late 1970s. Indeed, it demonstrates that liberationist Christianity was more diverse and internally conflicted, more widely resonant outside ecclesial confines, and more interconnected over time, than often allowed.The chapters provide new perspectives on liberationist engagements with, and influence on, ecclesiology, Participatory Action Research, architecture and urbanism, feminism, human rights, ecofeminist political theology, and more, from the 1960s to the present moment in Latin America. Drawing these threads together, the book invites us to reconsider liberation theology’s praxis in retrospect and the continuities and changes that reach into the present day. Foreword: Theology in the Footsteps of the Martyrs Martha Zechmeister CJ Introduction: As it was in the Beginning? Pablo Bradbury and Niall Geraghty 1 Conflict and Ecclesiology: Obedience, Institutionality and People of God in the Movement of Priests for the Third World Pablo Bradbury 2 Legacies of the “Bridge-man”: Catholic Accompaniment, Inter-class Relations and the Classification of Surplus in Montevideo Patrick O’Hare 3 Orlando Fals-Borda’s Participatory Action Research: At and Beyond the Crossroads of Camilo Torres’s Neo-socialism and Liberation Theology Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo 4 The Impact of Liberation Theology in the Latin American Built Environment Fernando Luiz Lara 5 When Liberation Theology Met Human Rights Anna Grimaldi 6 “Women, The Key to Liberation?”: A Feminist Theology of Liberation at the Catholic Women’s Conference at Puebla Natalie Gasparowicz 7 Towards the Possibility of an Ecofeminist Political Theology: The Case of Collective Con-spirando Ely Orrego-Torres Afterword: Contemporary Witnesses to Life and Liberation: The Persistent Reality of Latin American Martyrdom as an Ever-Evolving Challenge to Liberation Theologies Today Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo

Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America
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Religions et spiritualité
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125 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h34min.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together approaches from history, theology, cultural studies, architecture, sociology, and anthropology to reevaluate the legacy and significance of liberation theology in Latin America.Liberation theology was born in the 1960s at a time of Church renewal and socio-economic ferment, as many sought radical solutions to the perceived exhaustion of developmentalist projects and the institutionalised violence of capitalism and dependency. By focussing on praxis – the lived experiences, spiritual, and embodied practices of those engaged in social action – the book challenges the assumption that liberation theology had reached its twilight by the late 1970s. Indeed, it demonstrates that liberationist Christianity was more diverse and internally conflicted, more widely resonant outside ecclesial confines, and more interconnected over time, than often allowed.The chapters provide new perspectives on liberationist engagements with, and influence on, ecclesiology, Participatory Action Research, architecture and urbanism, feminism, human rights, ecofeminist political theology, and more, from the 1960s to the present moment in Latin America. Drawing these threads together, the book invites us to reconsider liberation theology’s praxis in retrospect and the continuities and changes that reach into the present day. Foreword: Theology in the Footsteps of the Martyrs Martha Zechmeister CJ Introduction: As it was in the Beginning? Pablo Bradbury and Niall Geraghty 1 Conflict and Ecclesiology: Obedience, Institutionality and People of God in the Movement of Priests for the Third World Pablo Bradbury 2 Legacies of the “Bridge-man”: Catholic Accompaniment, Inter-class Relations and the Classification of Surplus in Montevideo Patrick O’Hare 3 Orlando Fals-Borda’s Participatory Action Research: At and Beyond the Crossroads of Camilo Torres’s Neo-socialism and Liberation Theology Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo 4 The Impact of Liberation Theology in the Latin American Built Environment Fernando Luiz Lara 5 When Liberation Theology Met Human Rights Anna Grimaldi 6 “Women, The Key to Liberation?”: A Feminist Theology of Liberation at the Catholic Women’s Conference at Puebla Natalie Gasparowicz 7 Towards the Possibility of an Ecofeminist Political Theology: The Case of Collective Con-spirando Ely Orrego-Torres Afterword: Contemporary Witnesses to Life and Liberation: The Persistent Reality of Latin American Martyrdom as an Ever-Evolving Challenge to Liberation Theologies Today Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo

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Affiche du document Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction — Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction
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It is easy to find books and libraries within fiction from the earliest times onwards in works for all age groups, in canonical literature and in books that form part of popular culture. From Don Quixote to Louisa M. Alcott’s March girls and Terry Pratchett’s Unseen University wizards, the reading material of fictional personae is part of their characterisation; we are often reading readers. This volume breaks new ground in offering a chronological range of essays exploring the depiction of books, libraries and reading specifically in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Through detailed case studies from primarily British fiction that address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself, the collection examines the ways in which authors of fiction mediate and interpret books, libraries, and the act of reading to their own readers. Fiction enables writers to teach readers how to read, but it can also portray subversive acts of reading that engage with contemporary cultural anxieties or moral debates. The volume draws on approaches from literary studies, book history, library history, and theories and histories of reading, to examine what fictional representations of reading tell us about changing cultural attitudes to different reading practices, and the use (and abuse) of books beyond actual reading, both in the context of specific works and about the reception of books more widely. Introduction: Books, Reading, and Libraries in Fiction Karen Attar and Andrew Nash 1 Reading Envisioned in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Daniel Sawyer 2 ‘The Gay Part of Reading’: Corruption through Reading? Rahel Orgis 3 ‘Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilet’: Reading Fiction Together in the Eighteenth Century Abigail Williams 4 Jane Austen’s Refinement of the Intradiegetic Novel Reader in Northanger Abbey: A Study in Ricoeurian Hermeneutics of Recuperation Monika Class 5 ‘Evaluating Negative Representations of Reading: Ivan Turgenev’s Faust (1855)’ Shafquat Towheed 6 ‘I spent all yesterday trying to read’: Reading in the Face of Existential Threat in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Hannah Callahan 7 ‘Into separate brochures’: Stitched Work and a New New Testament in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure Lucy Sixsmith 8 A Fire Fed on Books: Books and Reading in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers Susan Watson 9 ‘I sometimes like to read a novel’: Books and Reading in Victorian Adventure Romance Andrew Nash 10 When It Isn’t Cricket: Books, Reading and Libraries in the Girls’ School Story Karen Attar 11 The Body in the Library in the Fiction of Agatha Christie and her `Golden Age’ Contemporaries Keith Manley 12 ‘Very Nearly Magical’: Books and their Readers in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series Jane Suzanne Carroll

Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction
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It is easy to find books and libraries within fiction from the earliest times onwards in works for all age groups, in canonical literature and in books that form part of popular culture. From Don Quixote to Louisa M. Alcott’s March girls and Terry Pratchett’s Unseen University wizards, the reading material of fictional personae is part of their characterisation; we are often reading readers. This volume breaks new ground in offering a chronological range of essays exploring the depiction of books, libraries and reading specifically in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Through detailed case studies from primarily British fiction that address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself, the collection examines the ways in which authors of fiction mediate and interpret books, libraries, and the act of reading to their own readers. Fiction enables writers to teach readers how to read, but it can also portray subversive acts of reading that engage with contemporary cultural anxieties or moral debates. The volume draws on approaches from literary studies, book history, library history, and theories and histories of reading, to examine what fictional representations of reading tell us about changing cultural attitudes to different reading practices, and the use (and abuse) of books beyond actual reading, both in the context of specific works and about the reception of books more widely. Introduction: Books, Reading, and Libraries in Fiction Karen Attar and Andrew Nash 1 Reading Envisioned in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Daniel Sawyer 2 ‘The Gay Part of Reading’: Corruption through Reading? Rahel Orgis 3 ‘Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilet’: Reading Fiction Together in the Eighteenth Century Abigail Williams 4 Jane Austen’s Refinement of the Intradiegetic Novel Reader in Northanger Abbey: A Study in Ricoeurian Hermeneutics of Recuperation Monika Class 5 ‘Evaluating Negative Representations of Reading: Ivan Turgenev’s Faust (1855)’ Shafquat Towheed 6 ‘I spent all yesterday trying to read’: Reading in the Face of Existential Threat in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Hannah Callahan 7 ‘Into separate brochures’: Stitched Work and a New New Testament in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure Lucy Sixsmith 8 A Fire Fed on Books: Books and Reading in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers Susan Watson 9 ‘I sometimes like to read a novel’: Books and Reading in Victorian Adventure Romance Andrew Nash 10 When It Isn’t Cricket: Books, Reading and Libraries in the Girls’ School Story Karen Attar 11 The Body in the Library in the Fiction of Agatha Christie and her `Golden Age’ Contemporaries Keith Manley 12 ‘Very Nearly Magical’: Books and their Readers in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series Jane Suzanne Carroll

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Affiche du document European Socialists Across Borders — European Socialists Across Borders
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From postwar debates on institutionalised cooperation in Western Europe to the ambitions of the European Union in the post-Cold War era, this volume investigates the impact of socialist networks on European construction and integration, and the role of European socialism in international (dis)orders. It assesses how socialist networks were influenced by relations with socialist parties and groups outside Europe, and how they navigated local, national and global politics. Collectively, the chapters explore four main areas: the relationship between the ideals of European cooperation and daily, routine and domestic politics; the shifting definitions of political elites and popular understandings of Europe, including the influence of people of African, Caribbean and Asian descent on the transformation of socialist thought, policies and practices in the European (ex-) imperial powers; the extent to which European socialists attempted to propose a postcolonial, postimperial agenda for Europe; and how European institutions were used, and with what results, by socialists and their contacts.Reflecting on the successes and failures of transnational processes of socialisation, the role of cultural intermediaries and bridge-builders, and the reasons behind misunderstandings, failed projects and missed opportunities for peace and equality, the book examines how socialist politicians and activists conceived of Europe’s role in worldmaking in the transition out of conflict and empire. In doing so, the volume contributes to a better understanding of, and support for, cooperation across borders. Introduction Mélanie Torrent and Andrew J. Williams Part I. European socialism in war and peace * 1 The Labour party and the SFIO in London in the 1940s Andrew J. Williams * 2 Transwar continuities: The Mouvement Socialiste pour les Etats-Unis d’Europe (MSEUE) and Socialist Networks in the Early Cold War Benjamin Heckscher and Tommaso MilaniPart II. Paths not taken? European socialists and the politics of worldmaking at the end of empire 3 Europe re-imagined? Claude Bourdet, France-Observateur and British critics of the Algerian war Mélanie Torrent 4 Social Activism in the Age of Decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the Liberation Struggles in Lusophone Africa, c. 1954–1975 Pedro Aires Oliveira 5 Olof Palme, Sweden, and the Vietnam war: An outspoken socialist among European socialists Lubna Z. Qureshi Part III. Redefining Europe and reassessing Europeanisation: socialist readings of internationalism and liberalism * 6 European socialists and international solidarity with Palestine: towards a socialist European network of solidarity in the 1970s and 1980s? Thomas Maineult * 7 Black British Labour Leaders and the Europeanisation of antiracism, 1986–1993 Pamela Ohene-Nyako * 8 From Dark to Light: The Fate of Two European Socialist Employment Initiatives in an Age of Austerity Mathieu Fulla

European Socialists Across Borders
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From postwar debates on institutionalised cooperation in Western Europe to the ambitions of the European Union in the post-Cold War era, this volume investigates the impact of socialist networks on European construction and integration, and the role of European socialism in international (dis)orders. It assesses how socialist networks were influenced by relations with socialist parties and groups outside Europe, and how they navigated local, national and global politics. Collectively, the chapters explore four main areas: the relationship between the ideals of European cooperation and daily, routine and domestic politics; the shifting definitions of political elites and popular understandings of Europe, including the influence of people of African, Caribbean and Asian descent on the transformation of socialist thought, policies and practices in the European (ex-) imperial powers; the extent to which European socialists attempted to propose a postcolonial, postimperial agenda for Europe; and how European institutions were used, and with what results, by socialists and their contacts.Reflecting on the successes and failures of transnational processes of socialisation, the role of cultural intermediaries and bridge-builders, and the reasons behind misunderstandings, failed projects and missed opportunities for peace and equality, the book examines how socialist politicians and activists conceived of Europe’s role in worldmaking in the transition out of conflict and empire. In doing so, the volume contributes to a better understanding of, and support for, cooperation across borders. Introduction Mélanie Torrent and Andrew J. Williams Part I. European socialism in war and peace * 1 The Labour party and the SFIO in London in the 1940s Andrew J. Williams * 2 Transwar continuities: The Mouvement Socialiste pour les Etats-Unis d’Europe (MSEUE) and Socialist Networks in the Early Cold War Benjamin Heckscher and Tommaso MilaniPart II. Paths not taken? European socialists and the politics of worldmaking at the end of empire 3 Europe re-imagined? Claude Bourdet, France-Observateur and British critics of the Algerian war Mélanie Torrent 4 Social Activism in the Age of Decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the Liberation Struggles in Lusophone Africa, c. 1954–1975 Pedro Aires Oliveira 5 Olof Palme, Sweden, and the Vietnam war: An outspoken socialist among European socialists Lubna Z. Qureshi Part III. Redefining Europe and reassessing Europeanisation: socialist readings of internationalism and liberalism * 6 European socialists and international solidarity with Palestine: towards a socialist European network of solidarity in the 1970s and 1980s? Thomas Maineult * 7 Black British Labour Leaders and the Europeanisation of antiracism, 1986–1993 Pamela Ohene-Nyako * 8 From Dark to Light: The Fate of Two European Socialist Employment Initiatives in an Age of Austerity Mathieu Fulla

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Affiche du document Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010 — Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010
Jon Winder
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Children’s playgrounds are commonly understood as the obvious place for children to play: safe, natural and out of the way. But these expectations hide a convoluted and overlooked history of children’s place in public space – one shaped by implicit social, political and environmental values, and by government intervention in spaces and lives across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book is the first empirically grounded historical account of the modern playground, drawing on the archival materials of social reformers, park superintendents, equipment manufacturers and architects in Britain and beyond to chart the playground’s journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity. In exploring the evolution of play space design, the book shows that the ideal playground has long represented a space where changing conceptions of nature, health, childhood, commerce and technology have all been played out. It covers the development of garden gymnasiums in the 1890s, the influence of Charles Wicksteed, increasing standardisation in the interwar period, the impact of progressive education, pioneering female designers and the adventure playground movement in the twentieth century, and more recent challenges to the playground’s status as a site of health, nature and safety.Designed for Play is an original and accessible contribution to modern British history, urban and environmental history, and histories and geographies of childhood. Introduction 1 Finding Space for Play: ‘playgrounds for poor children in populous places’ 2 Competing Playground Visions: ‘a distinctly civilizing influence that gives much health and happiness’ 3 Playgrounds for the People: ‘a magnetic force to draw children away from the dangers and excitements of the streets’ 4 Orthodoxy and Adventure: ‘playgrounds are often as bleak as barrack squares and just as boring’ 5 Playground Scuffles: ‘It’s ours whatever they say’ Conclusion

Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010
Jon Winder
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Children’s playgrounds are commonly understood as the obvious place for children to play: safe, natural and out of the way. But these expectations hide a convoluted and overlooked history of children’s place in public space – one shaped by implicit social, political and environmental values, and by government intervention in spaces and lives across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book is the first empirically grounded historical account of the modern playground, drawing on the archival materials of social reformers, park superintendents, equipment manufacturers and architects in Britain and beyond to chart the playground’s journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity. In exploring the evolution of play space design, the book shows that the ideal playground has long represented a space where changing conceptions of nature, health, childhood, commerce and technology have all been played out. It covers the development of garden gymnasiums in the 1890s, the influence of Charles Wicksteed, increasing standardisation in the interwar period, the impact of progressive education, pioneering female designers and the adventure playground movement in the twentieth century, and more recent challenges to the playground’s status as a site of health, nature and safety.Designed for Play is an original and accessible contribution to modern British history, urban and environmental history, and histories and geographies of childhood. Introduction 1 Finding Space for Play: ‘playgrounds for poor children in populous places’ 2 Competing Playground Visions: ‘a distinctly civilizing influence that gives much health and happiness’ 3 Playgrounds for the People: ‘a magnetic force to draw children away from the dangers and excitements of the streets’ 4 Orthodoxy and Adventure: ‘playgrounds are often as bleak as barrack squares and just as boring’ 5 Playground Scuffles: ‘It’s ours whatever they say’ Conclusion

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Affiche du document Capitalism, Colonisation and the Ecocide-Genocide Nexus — Capitalism, Colonisation and the Ecocide-Genocide Nexus
Martin Crook
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With climate change and a looming ecological crisis impacting the systems and institutions that support life, this timely publication examines the drivers of ecologically induced genocide – the environmental destruction resulting in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group’s cultural or physical existence. Focusing on the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia, both united by a discourse of developmentalism, the book draws attention to the critical role that the destructions of ecologies has historically played, and continues to play, in the genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples. It synthesises radical political ecology with a political-economic approach to illuminate the nexus between the inherently genocidal and ecocidal properties of the capitalist global system and the manner in which the ecocidal logic of capital intersects with settler and post-colonial structures. In exploring the genocidal effects of climate governance and market environmentalism on Indigenous peoples in Kenya and forms of energy extraction on Indigenous groups in Australia, the book also draws on original interviews to prioritise the lived experiences of, and give voice to, the groups that have suffered structural violence and social harms. Fundamentally, it puts forward a political economy of genocide, which seeks to explain the manner in which material forces, on local and global scales, underpin and give rise to ever-evolving relations of genocide. As such, this important book deepens and enriches our knowledge of genocide and the eco-genocidal nature of colonisation, and the capitalist mode of production that underpins developmentalism.1 Introduction: Ecological inequity, ‘exterminism’ and genocide2 Australia: The Architecture of Dispossession Then3 Australia: The Architecture of Dispossession Now4 Kenya: The Architecture of Dispossession Then5 Kenya: The Architecture of Dispossession Now6 Conclusion: A Neo-Lemkinian Ontology in the Age of the Anthropocene

Capitalism, Colonisation and the Ecocide-Genocide Nexus
Martin Crook
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With climate change and a looming ecological crisis impacting the systems and institutions that support life, this timely publication examines the drivers of ecologically induced genocide – the environmental destruction resulting in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group’s cultural or physical existence. Focusing on the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia, both united by a discourse of developmentalism, the book draws attention to the critical role that the destructions of ecologies has historically played, and continues to play, in the genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples. It synthesises radical political ecology with a political-economic approach to illuminate the nexus between the inherently genocidal and ecocidal properties of the capitalist global system and the manner in which the ecocidal logic of capital intersects with settler and post-colonial structures. In exploring the genocidal effects of climate governance and market environmentalism on Indigenous peoples in Kenya and forms of energy extraction on Indigenous groups in Australia, the book also draws on original interviews to prioritise the lived experiences of, and give voice to, the groups that have suffered structural violence and social harms. Fundamentally, it puts forward a political economy of genocide, which seeks to explain the manner in which material forces, on local and global scales, underpin and give rise to ever-evolving relations of genocide. As such, this important book deepens and enriches our knowledge of genocide and the eco-genocidal nature of colonisation, and the capitalist mode of production that underpins developmentalism.1 Introduction: Ecological inequity, ‘exterminism’ and genocide2 Australia: The Architecture of Dispossession Then3 Australia: The Architecture of Dispossession Now4 Kenya: The Architecture of Dispossession Then5 Kenya: The Architecture of Dispossession Now6 Conclusion: A Neo-Lemkinian Ontology in the Age of the Anthropocene

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Affiche du document Mapping the State — Mapping the State
Martin Spychal
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The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics. By overhauling the country’s ancient representative system, the legislation reshaped constitutional arrangements at Westminster, reinvigorated political relationships between the centre and the provinces, and established the political structures and precedents that both shaped and hindered electoral reform over the following century.Mapping the State leads to a fundamental rethinking of the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform, and the reconstruction of England’s electoral map by the little-known 1831–2 boundary commission, underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation. Eschewing traditional approaches to the 1832 Reform Act, it draws from a significant new archival discovery – the working papers of the boundary commission – and a range of innovative quantitative techniques to provide a major reassessment of why and how the 1832 Reform Act passed, its impact on reformed politics both at Westminster and in the constituencies, and its significance to the expansion of the modern British state. Introduction Part I Envisioning England’s reformed electoral map 1 A balancing Act? Interests and parliamentary reform, 1780-1832 2 ‘The most unpopular part of the bill throughout the country’: reintegrating boundaries into the story of reform 3 Towards a science of government: the ‘spirit of inquiry’ and the establishment of the 1831-2 boundary commission 4 Whipped by the beadles? Data-gathering for the boundary commission Part II Redrawing England’s electoral map Chronology and voting data 5 ‘The work we are engaged in is intended to last for a century’: redrawing England’s ancient electoral map 6 The Droitwich dilemma: interests, grouping and the multiple parish borough 7‘All the kindred interests of the town and neighbourhood’: new borough limits 8 Under the knife: reconstructing the county map Conclusion

Mapping the State
Martin Spychal
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The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics. By overhauling the country’s ancient representative system, the legislation reshaped constitutional arrangements at Westminster, reinvigorated political relationships between the centre and the provinces, and established the political structures and precedents that both shaped and hindered electoral reform over the following century.Mapping the State leads to a fundamental rethinking of the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform, and the reconstruction of England’s electoral map by the little-known 1831–2 boundary commission, underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation. Eschewing traditional approaches to the 1832 Reform Act, it draws from a significant new archival discovery – the working papers of the boundary commission – and a range of innovative quantitative techniques to provide a major reassessment of why and how the 1832 Reform Act passed, its impact on reformed politics both at Westminster and in the constituencies, and its significance to the expansion of the modern British state. Introduction Part I Envisioning England’s reformed electoral map 1 A balancing Act? Interests and parliamentary reform, 1780-1832 2 ‘The most unpopular part of the bill throughout the country’: reintegrating boundaries into the story of reform 3 Towards a science of government: the ‘spirit of inquiry’ and the establishment of the 1831-2 boundary commission 4 Whipped by the beadles? Data-gathering for the boundary commission Part II Redrawing England’s electoral map Chronology and voting data 5 ‘The work we are engaged in is intended to last for a century’: redrawing England’s ancient electoral map 6 The Droitwich dilemma: interests, grouping and the multiple parish borough 7‘All the kindred interests of the town and neighbourhood’: new borough limits 8 Under the knife: reconstructing the county map Conclusion

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Affiche du document Civilian Specialists at War — Civilian Specialists at War
Christopher Phillips
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The war of 1914–18 was the first great conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods to the field of battle. In Civilian Specialists at War, Christopher Phillips examines the manner in which Britain’s industrial society influenced the character and conduct of industrial warfare. This book analyses the multiple connections between the military, the government and the senior executives of some of pre-war Britain’s largest companies. It illustrates the British army’s evolving response to the First World War and the role to be played by non-military expertise in the prosecution of such a conflict. This study demonstrates that pre-existing professional relationships between the army, the government and private enterprise were exploited throughout the conflict. It details how civilian technologies facilitated the prosecution of war on an unprecedented scale, while showing how British experts were constrained by the political and military demands of coalition warfare. Civilian Specialists at War reveals that Britain’s transport experts were a key component in the country’s conduct of the First World War.IntroductionPart I: Preparation 1. Forging a relationship: the army, the government and Britain’s transport experts, 1825–1914 2. A fruitful collaboration: Henry Wilson, the railways and the BEF’s mobilization, 1910–14 Part II: Expansion 3. Stepping into their places: Britain’s transport experts and the expanding war, 1914–16 4. Commitment and constraint I: the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway and the port of Boulogne 5. Commitment and constraint II: Commander Gerald Holland and the role of inland water transport Part III: Armageddon 6. The civilians take over? Sir Eric Geddes and the crisis of 1916 7. ‘By similar methods as adopted by the English railway companies’: materials and working practices on the western front, 1916–18 8. The balancing act: Britain’s transport experts, the global war effort and coalition warfare, 1916–18 9. The road to victory: transportation in the British Expeditionary Force, 1917–18 Conclusion

Civilian Specialists at War
Christopher Phillips
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The war of 1914–18 was the first great conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods to the field of battle. In Civilian Specialists at War, Christopher Phillips examines the manner in which Britain’s industrial society influenced the character and conduct of industrial warfare. This book analyses the multiple connections between the military, the government and the senior executives of some of pre-war Britain’s largest companies. It illustrates the British army’s evolving response to the First World War and the role to be played by non-military expertise in the prosecution of such a conflict. This study demonstrates that pre-existing professional relationships between the army, the government and private enterprise were exploited throughout the conflict. It details how civilian technologies facilitated the prosecution of war on an unprecedented scale, while showing how British experts were constrained by the political and military demands of coalition warfare. Civilian Specialists at War reveals that Britain’s transport experts were a key component in the country’s conduct of the First World War.IntroductionPart I: Preparation 1. Forging a relationship: the army, the government and Britain’s transport experts, 1825–1914 2. A fruitful collaboration: Henry Wilson, the railways and the BEF’s mobilization, 1910–14 Part II: Expansion 3. Stepping into their places: Britain’s transport experts and the expanding war, 1914–16 4. Commitment and constraint I: the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway and the port of Boulogne 5. Commitment and constraint II: Commander Gerald Holland and the role of inland water transport Part III: Armageddon 6. The civilians take over? Sir Eric Geddes and the crisis of 1916 7. ‘By similar methods as adopted by the English railway companies’: materials and working practices on the western front, 1916–18 8. The balancing act: Britain’s transport experts, the global war effort and coalition warfare, 1916–18 9. The road to victory: transportation in the British Expeditionary Force, 1917–18 Conclusion

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Affiche du document The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures — The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures
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From houses to roads, infrastructures offer a unique lens through which to explore social and political change. Serving as an important conduit between states and citizens, infrastructures provide governments with a powerful tool to mould subjects and control populations. Yet, at the same time they also give individuals, communities, and movements a platform to challenge the state and forge alternative forms of citizenship and politics. Infrastructures therefore shape social and political relations in unexpected ways and never dutifully follow the scripts of politicians, bureaucrats, and engineers. Latin America provides fertile terrain to explore these issues. The region has been subject to extensive foreign intervention for centuries and much of its infrastructure has primarily been constructed to benefit colonial and imperial powers. Yet Latin America has also seen widespread resistance to colonial-capitalist expansion, and infrastructures have been central to these diverse struggles. Drawing on recent empirical research, this cross-disciplinary book demonstrates the value of analysing social and political change through infrastructure. The authors explore a diverse range of Latin American infrastructures, from a sparkling new tram network in Ecuador to a crumbling old nuclear plant in Cuba. Building on the empirical chapters, the editors demonstrate the value of conceptualising infrastructure as a relational and experimental process. In addition to making a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates, the volume offers important new insights into Latin American history, society, and politics.Foreword. The Social and Political Life of Latin American InfrastructuresPenny Harvey Introduction: Infrastructure as Relational and Experimental ProcessJonathan Alderman and Geoff Goodwin1. Dreams of an anchored state: mobility infrastructure and state presence in Quehui Island, ChileDiego Valdivieso Sierpe2. ‘They want to change us by charging us’: Drinking water provision and water conflict in the Ecuadorian AmazonJulie Dayot3. Water storage reservoirs in Mataquita: Clashing measurements and meaningsUrsula Balderson4. Planning a new society: Urban politics and public housing in Natal, BrazilYuri Gama5. Contested statebuilding? A four-part framework of infrastructure development during armed conflictClara Voyvodic6. Competing infrastructures in local mining governance in MexicoValeria Guarneros-Meza and Marcela Torres-Wong7. ´Somos Zona Roja´: top-down informality and institutionalised exclusion from broadband internet services in Santiago de ChileNicolás Valenzuela-Levi8. The contradictions of sustainability: Discourse, planning and the tramway in Cuenca, EcuadorSam Rumé9. The record keepers: Maintaining irrigation canals, traditions and Inca codes of law in 1920s Huarochirí, PeruSarah Bennison 10. The Cuban nuclear dream: The afterlives of the Project of the CenturyNicole Fadellin

The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures
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From houses to roads, infrastructures offer a unique lens through which to explore social and political change. Serving as an important conduit between states and citizens, infrastructures provide governments with a powerful tool to mould subjects and control populations. Yet, at the same time they also give individuals, communities, and movements a platform to challenge the state and forge alternative forms of citizenship and politics. Infrastructures therefore shape social and political relations in unexpected ways and never dutifully follow the scripts of politicians, bureaucrats, and engineers. Latin America provides fertile terrain to explore these issues. The region has been subject to extensive foreign intervention for centuries and much of its infrastructure has primarily been constructed to benefit colonial and imperial powers. Yet Latin America has also seen widespread resistance to colonial-capitalist expansion, and infrastructures have been central to these diverse struggles. Drawing on recent empirical research, this cross-disciplinary book demonstrates the value of analysing social and political change through infrastructure. The authors explore a diverse range of Latin American infrastructures, from a sparkling new tram network in Ecuador to a crumbling old nuclear plant in Cuba. Building on the empirical chapters, the editors demonstrate the value of conceptualising infrastructure as a relational and experimental process. In addition to making a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates, the volume offers important new insights into Latin American history, society, and politics.Foreword. The Social and Political Life of Latin American InfrastructuresPenny Harvey Introduction: Infrastructure as Relational and Experimental ProcessJonathan Alderman and Geoff Goodwin1. Dreams of an anchored state: mobility infrastructure and state presence in Quehui Island, ChileDiego Valdivieso Sierpe2. ‘They want to change us by charging us’: Drinking water provision and water conflict in the Ecuadorian AmazonJulie Dayot3. Water storage reservoirs in Mataquita: Clashing measurements and meaningsUrsula Balderson4. Planning a new society: Urban politics and public housing in Natal, BrazilYuri Gama5. Contested statebuilding? A four-part framework of infrastructure development during armed conflictClara Voyvodic6. Competing infrastructures in local mining governance in MexicoValeria Guarneros-Meza and Marcela Torres-Wong7. ´Somos Zona Roja´: top-down informality and institutionalised exclusion from broadband internet services in Santiago de ChileNicolás Valenzuela-Levi8. The contradictions of sustainability: Discourse, planning and the tramway in Cuenca, EcuadorSam Rumé9. The record keepers: Maintaining irrigation canals, traditions and Inca codes of law in 1920s Huarochirí, PeruSarah Bennison 10. The Cuban nuclear dream: The afterlives of the Project of the CenturyNicole Fadellin

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Affiche du document Television Drama in Spain and Latin America — Television Drama in Spain and Latin America
Paul Julian Smith
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Television Drama in Spain and Latin America addresses two major topics within current cultural, media, and television studies: the question of fictional genres and that of transnational circulation. While much research has been carried out on both TV formats and remakes in the English-speaking world, almost nothing has been published on the huge and dynamic Spanish-speaking sector. This book discusses and analyses series since 2000 from Spain (in both Spanish and Catalan), Mexico, Venezuela, and (to a lesser extent) the US, employing both empirical research on production and distribution and textual analysis of content. The three genres examined are horror, biographical series, and sports-themed dramas; the three examples of format remakes are of a period mystery (Spain, Mexico), a romantic comedy (Venezuela, US), and a historical epic (Catalonia, Spain).Acknowledgements Introduction: TV Nations Genres 1. Transnational Horror Light: Production, Fandom, and Scholarship 2. Biopic TV in Mexico: Juana Inés (Canal Once, 2016), Hasta que te conocí: Juan Gabriel, mi historia [Until I Met You: Juan Gabriel, My Story] (Azteca, 2016) 3. Football TV: Club de Cuervos (Netflix, 2015–) Format Translations 4. Copycat Television? Gran Hotel [Grand Hotel] (Bambú/Antena 3, 2011–13) and El hotel de los secretos [The Hotel of Secrets] (Televisa, 2015–16) 5. Second Tier Reproduction: Juana la virgen (RCTV, 2002) and Jane the Virgin (CW, 2014–present) 6. Television Without a State: Temps de silenci [Time of Silence] (TV3, 2001–02) and Amar en tiempos revueltos [Loving in Troubled Times] (Diagonal/TVE1, 2005–) Conclusion: Series Planet Interview with Patricia Arriaga Jordán, Creator of Juana Inés (23 December 2016) Bibliography Index

Television Drama in Spain and Latin America
Paul Julian Smith
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Television Drama in Spain and Latin America addresses two major topics within current cultural, media, and television studies: the question of fictional genres and that of transnational circulation. While much research has been carried out on both TV formats and remakes in the English-speaking world, almost nothing has been published on the huge and dynamic Spanish-speaking sector. This book discusses and analyses series since 2000 from Spain (in both Spanish and Catalan), Mexico, Venezuela, and (to a lesser extent) the US, employing both empirical research on production and distribution and textual analysis of content. The three genres examined are horror, biographical series, and sports-themed dramas; the three examples of format remakes are of a period mystery (Spain, Mexico), a romantic comedy (Venezuela, US), and a historical epic (Catalonia, Spain).Acknowledgements Introduction: TV Nations Genres 1. Transnational Horror Light: Production, Fandom, and Scholarship 2. Biopic TV in Mexico: Juana Inés (Canal Once, 2016), Hasta que te conocí: Juan Gabriel, mi historia [Until I Met You: Juan Gabriel, My Story] (Azteca, 2016) 3. Football TV: Club de Cuervos (Netflix, 2015–) Format Translations 4. Copycat Television? Gran Hotel [Grand Hotel] (Bambú/Antena 3, 2011–13) and El hotel de los secretos [The Hotel of Secrets] (Televisa, 2015–16) 5. Second Tier Reproduction: Juana la virgen (RCTV, 2002) and Jane the Virgin (CW, 2014–present) 6. Television Without a State: Temps de silenci [Time of Silence] (TV3, 2001–02) and Amar en tiempos revueltos [Loving in Troubled Times] (Diagonal/TVE1, 2005–) Conclusion: Series Planet Interview with Patricia Arriaga Jordán, Creator of Juana Inés (23 December 2016) Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Understanding ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects of Alternative Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean — Understanding ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects of Alternative Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
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161 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h1min.
This collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean’s collective challenge to neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. The volume’s comprehensive coverage incorporates insights from the domestic level in Nicaragua, the Anglophone Caribbean, and especially Venezuela, while also exploring ALBA’s key regional economic and social-policy initiatives and its place in the wider international relations of Latin American and the Caribbean. Moving beyond normative debates about the project’s desirability and descriptive accounts of its initiatives, this volume provides critical analyses that consider equally ALBA’s progress, problems, and prospects. In tackling many of the key questions about the past and future of ALBA it reveals a frequently misunderstood organisation whose impacts have been significant but whose failings also jeopardise the project’s long-term sustainability. This timely volume helps us to understand the dynamics shaping the region at a time when its global relevance has never been greater. 1. Introduction: ALBA from dawn to dusk? Asa K. CusackPart I 2. Self-awareness and critique: an overview of ALBA research Christopher David Absell 3. ALBA and the fourth wave of regionalism in Latin America Olivier DabènePart II 4. A very Latin American social policy: ALBA, counter-hegemonic regionalism, and ‘living well’ Kepa Artaraz 5. The first five years of the SUCRE: successes and limitations of ALBA’s regional virtual currency Stephanie PearcePart III 6. ALBA in Nicaragua: political, economic and development implications Gloria Carrión 7. Pragmatism left, right, and centre? Revisiting ALBA accession in the Eastern Caribbean Asa K. CusackPart IV 8. Venezuela, ALBA, and the Communal Economic System Helen Yaffe 9. From magical state to magical region? Ecology, labour and socialism in ALBA Rowan Lubbock 10. Venezuela in crisis: how sustainable is its support for ALBA? José Manuel PuentePart V 11. Progress, problems, and prospects of ALBA’s alternative regionalism Asa K. Cusack

Understanding ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects of Alternative Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
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This collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean’s collective challenge to neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. The volume’s comprehensive coverage incorporates insights from the domestic level in Nicaragua, the Anglophone Caribbean, and especially Venezuela, while also exploring ALBA’s key regional economic and social-policy initiatives and its place in the wider international relations of Latin American and the Caribbean. Moving beyond normative debates about the project’s desirability and descriptive accounts of its initiatives, this volume provides critical analyses that consider equally ALBA’s progress, problems, and prospects. In tackling many of the key questions about the past and future of ALBA it reveals a frequently misunderstood organisation whose impacts have been significant but whose failings also jeopardise the project’s long-term sustainability. This timely volume helps us to understand the dynamics shaping the region at a time when its global relevance has never been greater. 1. Introduction: ALBA from dawn to dusk? Asa K. CusackPart I 2. Self-awareness and critique: an overview of ALBA research Christopher David Absell 3. ALBA and the fourth wave of regionalism in Latin America Olivier DabènePart II 4. A very Latin American social policy: ALBA, counter-hegemonic regionalism, and ‘living well’ Kepa Artaraz 5. The first five years of the SUCRE: successes and limitations of ALBA’s regional virtual currency Stephanie PearcePart III 6. ALBA in Nicaragua: political, economic and development implications Gloria Carrión 7. Pragmatism left, right, and centre? Revisiting ALBA accession in the Eastern Caribbean Asa K. CusackPart IV 8. Venezuela, ALBA, and the Communal Economic System Helen Yaffe 9. From magical state to magical region? Ecology, labour and socialism in ALBA Rowan Lubbock 10. Venezuela in crisis: how sustainable is its support for ALBA? José Manuel PuentePart V 11. Progress, problems, and prospects of ALBA’s alternative regionalism Asa K. Cusack

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Affiche du document Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society — Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society
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252 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h09min.
This volume reassesses the life and work of Octavia Hill, housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. In her lifetime she was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of social problems. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. This book provides a nuanced portrait of Hill and her work in a broader context of social change, reflecting recent scholarship on nineteenth-century society in general, and on philanthropy and preservation, and women’s role in them, in particular.Foreword - Dame Helen Ghosh, director general, National Trust I. ‘The habit of seeing and sorting out problems’: Octavia Hill’s life and afterlife1. Octavia Hill: ‘the most misunderstood … Victorian reformer’ - Elizabeth Baigent 2. Octavia Hill: lessons in campaigning - Gillian Darley II. ‘Beauty is for all’: art in the life and work of Octavia Hill 3. Octavia Hill: the practice of sympathy and the art of housing - William Whyte 4. Octavia Hill’s Red Cross Hall and its murals to heroic self-sacrifice - John Price 5. ‘The poor, as well as the rich, need something more than meat and drink’: the vision of the Kyrle Society - Robert Whelan 6. Octavia Hill: the reluctant sitter - Elizabeth Heath III. ‘The value of abundant good air’: Octavia Hill and the meanings of nature 7. Octavia Hill, nature and open space: crowning success or campaigning ‘utterly without result’ - Elizabeth Baigent8. Octavia Hill and the English landscape - Paul Readman IV. ‘A common inheritance from generation to generation’: Octavia Hill and preservation 9. ‘To every landless man, woman and child in England’: Octavia Hill and the preservation movement - Astrid Swenson 10. Octavia Hill and the National Trust - Melanie Hall V. ‘The loving zeal of individuals which cannot be legislated for by Parliament’: Octavia Hill’s vision in historical context 11. At home in the metropolis: gender and ideals of social service - Jane Garnett 12. Octavia Hill, Beatrice Webb, and the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, 1905–9: a mid Victorian in an Edwardian world - Lawrence Goldman VI. Hill’s legacy13. ‘Some dreadful buildings in Southwark’: a tour of nineteenth-century social housing - William Whyte 14. For the benefit of the nation: politics and the early National Trust - Ben Cowell

Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society
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This volume reassesses the life and work of Octavia Hill, housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. In her lifetime she was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of social problems. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. This book provides a nuanced portrait of Hill and her work in a broader context of social change, reflecting recent scholarship on nineteenth-century society in general, and on philanthropy and preservation, and women’s role in them, in particular.Foreword - Dame Helen Ghosh, director general, National Trust I. ‘The habit of seeing and sorting out problems’: Octavia Hill’s life and afterlife1. Octavia Hill: ‘the most misunderstood … Victorian reformer’ - Elizabeth Baigent 2. Octavia Hill: lessons in campaigning - Gillian Darley II. ‘Beauty is for all’: art in the life and work of Octavia Hill 3. Octavia Hill: the practice of sympathy and the art of housing - William Whyte 4. Octavia Hill’s Red Cross Hall and its murals to heroic self-sacrifice - John Price 5. ‘The poor, as well as the rich, need something more than meat and drink’: the vision of the Kyrle Society - Robert Whelan 6. Octavia Hill: the reluctant sitter - Elizabeth Heath III. ‘The value of abundant good air’: Octavia Hill and the meanings of nature 7. Octavia Hill, nature and open space: crowning success or campaigning ‘utterly without result’ - Elizabeth Baigent8. Octavia Hill and the English landscape - Paul Readman IV. ‘A common inheritance from generation to generation’: Octavia Hill and preservation 9. ‘To every landless man, woman and child in England’: Octavia Hill and the preservation movement - Astrid Swenson 10. Octavia Hill and the National Trust - Melanie Hall V. ‘The loving zeal of individuals which cannot be legislated for by Parliament’: Octavia Hill’s vision in historical context 11. At home in the metropolis: gender and ideals of social service - Jane Garnett 12. Octavia Hill, Beatrice Webb, and the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, 1905–9: a mid Victorian in an Edwardian world - Lawrence Goldman VI. Hill’s legacy13. ‘Some dreadful buildings in Southwark’: a tour of nineteenth-century social housing - William Whyte 14. For the benefit of the nation: politics and the early National Trust - Ben Cowell

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Affiche du document Shaping Migration between Europe and Latin America: New Perspectives and Challenges — Shaping Migration between Europe and Latin America: New Perspectives and Challenges
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141 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h46min.
With its focus on Latin America and Europe, two world regions historically linked by human mobility and cultural exchange, this insightful interdisciplinary examination of their changing international migration patterns demonstrates how they are now responding to significant demographic changes and new migration trends.The volume examines strategies pursued by state and non-state actors to address the political and policy implications of mobility, and asks to what extent is cross-regional migration effectively managed today, and how it could be improved. Its chapters provide an integrated and comparative view of the links between the two regions and highlight the formal and informal interstices through which migration journeys are negotiated and shaped.Foreword Mark ThurnerPart 1. Framing the debate 1. Introduction. Transatlantic migration flows, policies and practices in the 21st century Ana Margheritis 2. Framing understandings of international migration: how governance actors make sense of migration in Europe and South America Andrew Geddes and Marcia Vera EspinozaPart 2. Homemaking, ideas and institutions in a transatlantic journey 3. Citizenship in Latin America from a comparative historical perspective: evolution and Spanish influences Diego Acosta 4. Diaspora engagement policies and migrants’ narratives across the Atlantic Ana Irene Rovetta Cortés 5. South American regional citizenship as figurative frontier: European influences on a political project in the making Ana MargheritisPart 3. Agent-structure dynamics in contemporary migration flows 6. Don’t call me a ‘victim’! Migration projects and sexual exploitation of Brazilian travestis in Europe Emanuela Abbatecola 7. Latin American women and Italian families: agency beyond structural constraints and exploitation Maurizio Ambrosini 8. Agency, structure and transnationalism in Colombian migration to the UK: the emergence of a migration system? Anastasia BermudezPart 4. Conclusions 9. Looking ahead David Owen

Shaping Migration between Europe and Latin America: New Perspectives and Challenges
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With its focus on Latin America and Europe, two world regions historically linked by human mobility and cultural exchange, this insightful interdisciplinary examination of their changing international migration patterns demonstrates how they are now responding to significant demographic changes and new migration trends.The volume examines strategies pursued by state and non-state actors to address the political and policy implications of mobility, and asks to what extent is cross-regional migration effectively managed today, and how it could be improved. Its chapters provide an integrated and comparative view of the links between the two regions and highlight the formal and informal interstices through which migration journeys are negotiated and shaped.Foreword Mark ThurnerPart 1. Framing the debate 1. Introduction. Transatlantic migration flows, policies and practices in the 21st century Ana Margheritis 2. Framing understandings of international migration: how governance actors make sense of migration in Europe and South America Andrew Geddes and Marcia Vera EspinozaPart 2. Homemaking, ideas and institutions in a transatlantic journey 3. Citizenship in Latin America from a comparative historical perspective: evolution and Spanish influences Diego Acosta 4. Diaspora engagement policies and migrants’ narratives across the Atlantic Ana Irene Rovetta Cortés 5. South American regional citizenship as figurative frontier: European influences on a political project in the making Ana MargheritisPart 3. Agent-structure dynamics in contemporary migration flows 6. Don’t call me a ‘victim’! Migration projects and sexual exploitation of Brazilian travestis in Europe Emanuela Abbatecola 7. Latin American women and Italian families: agency beyond structural constraints and exploitation Maurizio Ambrosini 8. Agency, structure and transnationalism in Colombian migration to the UK: the emergence of a migration system? Anastasia BermudezPart 4. Conclusions 9. Looking ahead David Owen

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Affiche du document Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights — Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights offered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, we are pleased to publish a commemorative edited volume on human rights themes authored by distinguished alumni and faculty. The chapters reflect on cutting-edge challenges in the field of human rights. Topics include refugee protection, women’s human rights, business and human rights, the role of national and international legal mechanisms and emerging themes such as tax justice, rights in the digital age, theories of change, and poetry. It is a credit to the MA programme that the chapters are rich with critical analysis, diverse expertise and innovative approaches. This book will be essential reading for students of human rights and practitioners who can benefit from the insights into theory and practice offered here.Foreword James Manor 1. Introduction Corinne Lennox 2. Researching and studying human rights: interdisciplinary insight Damien Short 3. Human rights theory as solidarity José-Manuel Barreto 4. The social construction of Afro-descendant rights in Colombia Esther Ojulari 5. Bringing human rights home: refugees, reparation, and the responsibility to protect James Souter 6. Human rights and the new(ish) digital paradigm Gaia Marcus 7. Theories of change for human rights and for development Paul Gready 8. Shifting sands: a paradigm change in the development discourse on women’s human rights and empowerment Catherine Klirodotakou 9. The role of human rights in diversity management and conflict prevention Sally Holt 10. Why tax is a human rights issue: empowering communities living in poverty to hold governments to account for public services Bridget Burrows 11. Technical cooperation in the field of human rights Farid Hamdan 12. Poetry for human rights Laila Sumpton 13. Transnational business human rights regulation and their effects upon human rights protection Sumi Dhanarajan 14. The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice in the UK Smita Shah 15. Remedy Australia: because every human rights violation should be remedied Olivia Ball 16. Extraterritorial non-refoulement: intersections between human rights and refugee law David James Cantor 17. Rethinking Muslim women’s equal rights: faith, property and empowerment M. Siraj Sait 18. Power of the law, power to the people: pursuing innovative legal strategies in human rights advocacy Tanja Venisnik 19. Domestic incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Marshall Islands Divine Waiti 20. The Inter-American Human Rights System: notable achievements and enduring challenges Par Engstrom

Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights offered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, we are pleased to publish a commemorative edited volume on human rights themes authored by distinguished alumni and faculty. The chapters reflect on cutting-edge challenges in the field of human rights. Topics include refugee protection, women’s human rights, business and human rights, the role of national and international legal mechanisms and emerging themes such as tax justice, rights in the digital age, theories of change, and poetry. It is a credit to the MA programme that the chapters are rich with critical analysis, diverse expertise and innovative approaches. This book will be essential reading for students of human rights and practitioners who can benefit from the insights into theory and practice offered here.Foreword James Manor 1. Introduction Corinne Lennox 2. Researching and studying human rights: interdisciplinary insight Damien Short 3. Human rights theory as solidarity José-Manuel Barreto 4. The social construction of Afro-descendant rights in Colombia Esther Ojulari 5. Bringing human rights home: refugees, reparation, and the responsibility to protect James Souter 6. Human rights and the new(ish) digital paradigm Gaia Marcus 7. Theories of change for human rights and for development Paul Gready 8. Shifting sands: a paradigm change in the development discourse on women’s human rights and empowerment Catherine Klirodotakou 9. The role of human rights in diversity management and conflict prevention Sally Holt 10. Why tax is a human rights issue: empowering communities living in poverty to hold governments to account for public services Bridget Burrows 11. Technical cooperation in the field of human rights Farid Hamdan 12. Poetry for human rights Laila Sumpton 13. Transnational business human rights regulation and their effects upon human rights protection Sumi Dhanarajan 14. The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice in the UK Smita Shah 15. Remedy Australia: because every human rights violation should be remedied Olivia Ball 16. Extraterritorial non-refoulement: intersections between human rights and refugee law David James Cantor 17. Rethinking Muslim women’s equal rights: faith, property and empowerment M. Siraj Sait 18. Power of the law, power to the people: pursuing innovative legal strategies in human rights advocacy Tanja Venisnik 19. Domestic incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Marshall Islands Divine Waiti 20. The Inter-American Human Rights System: notable achievements and enduring challenges Par Engstrom

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Affiche du document Provincialising nature: multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America — Provincialising nature: multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America
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Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices in the region. This book shows both challenging scenarios and original perspectives that have emerged in Latin America in relation to the globally urgent issues of climate change and the environmental crisis. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and identity and their role in understanding recent and current practices of climate change and environmental policy. The different chapters in this volume contribute to this debate by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on particular aspects of these two frameworks and through a multidirectional outlook that links the local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry across a diverse geographical spectrum.1. Whose natures? Whose knowledges? An introduction to epistemic politics and eco-ontologies in Latin America Michela Coletta and Malayna Raftopoulos 2. The poetics of plants in Latin American literature Lesley Wylie 3. Hybrid traditions: permaculture, plants and the politics of nature in El Salvador Naomi Millner 4. Agri-cultural practice and agroecological discourse in the Anthropocene: confronting environmental change and food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean Graham Woodgate 5. Brazil and the international politics of climate change: leading by example? Marieke Riethof 6. REDD+ in Latin America: promises and challenges Anthony Hall 7. Nature, space, identity and resource extraction: paradoxes of discourses around indigeneity and environment in Bolivia Katinka Weber 8. The difference indigeneity makes: socio-natures, knowledges and contested policy in Ecuador Sarah A. Radcliffe

Provincialising nature: multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America
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Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices in the region. This book shows both challenging scenarios and original perspectives that have emerged in Latin America in relation to the globally urgent issues of climate change and the environmental crisis. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and identity and their role in understanding recent and current practices of climate change and environmental policy. The different chapters in this volume contribute to this debate by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on particular aspects of these two frameworks and through a multidirectional outlook that links the local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry across a diverse geographical spectrum.1. Whose natures? Whose knowledges? An introduction to epistemic politics and eco-ontologies in Latin America Michela Coletta and Malayna Raftopoulos 2. The poetics of plants in Latin American literature Lesley Wylie 3. Hybrid traditions: permaculture, plants and the politics of nature in El Salvador Naomi Millner 4. Agri-cultural practice and agroecological discourse in the Anthropocene: confronting environmental change and food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean Graham Woodgate 5. Brazil and the international politics of climate change: leading by example? Marieke Riethof 6. REDD+ in Latin America: promises and challenges Anthony Hall 7. Nature, space, identity and resource extraction: paradoxes of discourses around indigeneity and environment in Bolivia Katinka Weber 8. The difference indigeneity makes: socio-natures, knowledges and contested policy in Ecuador Sarah A. Radcliffe

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Affiche du document Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System — Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System
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117 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h28min.
This book reflects on the relationship between Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System, focusing on an interdisciplinary and detailed examination of the consequences of recent cases decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Chilean state. These cases illustrate central challenges in the areas of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex rights, as well as shedding light on torture and indigenous rights in Chile and the Americas as a whole.

Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System
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This book reflects on the relationship between Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System, focusing on an interdisciplinary and detailed examination of the consequences of recent cases decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Chilean state. These cases illustrate central challenges in the areas of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex rights, as well as shedding light on torture and indigenous rights in Chile and the Americas as a whole.

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Affiche du document A Liberal Tide? — A Liberal Tide?
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Sciences humaines et sociales
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Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent ""liberal tide"" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regressive and restrictive attitudes on display in other parts of the world? The question is urgent not only for our understanding of contemporary Latin America but also as a means of reorienting the debate in the migration studies field toward the important developments currently taking place in the region and in other parts of the global south. This book brings together eight varied and vibrant new analyses by scholars from Latin America and beyond to form the first collection that describes and critically examines the new liberalism in Latin American law and policy on migration and refugees.ContentsList of acronymsIntroduction: A paradigm shift in Latin American immigration and asylum law and policy?David James Cantor, Luisa Feline Freier and Jean-Pierre Gauci1 Migration policies and policymaking in Latin America and the Caribbean: lights and shadows in a region in transitionPablo Ceriani Cernadas and Luisa Feline Freier2 Beyond smoke and mirrors? Discursive gaps in the liberalisation of South American immigration lawsLuisa Feline Freier and Diego Acosta Arcarazo3 Mercosur’s post-neoliberal approach to migration: from workers’ mobility to regional citizenshipAna Margheritis4 In transit: migration policy in ColombiaBeatriz Eugenia Sánchez Mojica5 Trafficking persons within mixed migration flows in Central AmericaDiana Trimiño Mora6 The migration of Haitians within Latin America: significance for Brazilian law and policy on asylum and migrationAndrea Pacheco Pacifico, Erika Pires Ramos, Carolina de Abreu Batista Claro and Nara Braga Cavalcante de Farias7 Refugee protection in Brazil (1921–2014): an analytical narrative of changing policiesJosé H. Fischel de Andrade8 Bucking the trend? Liberalism and illiberalism in Latin American refugee law and policyDavid James Cantor

A Liberal Tide?
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Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent ""liberal tide"" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regressive and restrictive attitudes on display in other parts of the world? The question is urgent not only for our understanding of contemporary Latin America but also as a means of reorienting the debate in the migration studies field toward the important developments currently taking place in the region and in other parts of the global south. This book brings together eight varied and vibrant new analyses by scholars from Latin America and beyond to form the first collection that describes and critically examines the new liberalism in Latin American law and policy on migration and refugees.ContentsList of acronymsIntroduction: A paradigm shift in Latin American immigration and asylum law and policy?David James Cantor, Luisa Feline Freier and Jean-Pierre Gauci1 Migration policies and policymaking in Latin America and the Caribbean: lights and shadows in a region in transitionPablo Ceriani Cernadas and Luisa Feline Freier2 Beyond smoke and mirrors? Discursive gaps in the liberalisation of South American immigration lawsLuisa Feline Freier and Diego Acosta Arcarazo3 Mercosur’s post-neoliberal approach to migration: from workers’ mobility to regional citizenshipAna Margheritis4 In transit: migration policy in ColombiaBeatriz Eugenia Sánchez Mojica5 Trafficking persons within mixed migration flows in Central AmericaDiana Trimiño Mora6 The migration of Haitians within Latin America: significance for Brazilian law and policy on asylum and migrationAndrea Pacheco Pacifico, Erika Pires Ramos, Carolina de Abreu Batista Claro and Nara Braga Cavalcante de Farias7 Refugee protection in Brazil (1921–2014): an analytical narrative of changing policiesJosé H. Fischel de Andrade8 Bucking the trend? Liberalism and illiberalism in Latin American refugee law and policyDavid James Cantor

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Affiche du document A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective — A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
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This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture: for example, the symbolism and ritual uses of coca in the case of Catherine J. Allen; agricultural rituals and internal social divisions in the case of Peter Gose; social organisation and kinship in the case of Billie Jean Isbell; the use of khipus and concepts of literacy in the case of Frank Salomon; and the management and ritual dimensions of water and irrigation in the case of Ricardo Valderrama and Carmen Escalante.In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects of their ethnographies. For example, they explain how they chose the communities they worked in; the personal relations they established there during fieldwork; the kind of links they have maintained; and how these communities have changed over time. They also review their original methodological and theoretical approaches and findings, reassessing their validity and explaining how their views have evolved or changed since they originally conducted their fieldwork and published their studies.This book also offers a review of the evolution and role of community ethnographies in the context of Andean anthropology. These ethnographies had a significant influence between the 1940s and 1980s, when they could be roughly divided – following Olivia Harris – between ‘long-termist’ and ‘short-termist’ approaches, depending on predominant focuses on historical continuities or social change respectively. However, by the 1990s these works came to be widely considered as too limited and subjective in the context of wider academic changes, such as the emergence of postmodern trends, and reflective and literary turns in anthropology. Overall, the book aims to reflect on this evolution of community ethnographies in the Andes, and on their contribution to the study of Andean culture.Introduction: Community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture1. Reflections on fieldwork in Chuschi2. Losing my heart3. Deadly waters decades later4. Yanque Urinsaya: ethnography of an Andean community (a tribute to Billie Jean Isbell)5. Record keeping: ethnography and the uncertainty of contemporary community studies6. Long lines of continuity: field ethnohistory and customary conservation7. Avoiding community studies: the historical turn in Bolivian and South Andean anthropology8. In love with comunidades

A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
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This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture: for example, the symbolism and ritual uses of coca in the case of Catherine J. Allen; agricultural rituals and internal social divisions in the case of Peter Gose; social organisation and kinship in the case of Billie Jean Isbell; the use of khipus and concepts of literacy in the case of Frank Salomon; and the management and ritual dimensions of water and irrigation in the case of Ricardo Valderrama and Carmen Escalante.In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects of their ethnographies. For example, they explain how they chose the communities they worked in; the personal relations they established there during fieldwork; the kind of links they have maintained; and how these communities have changed over time. They also review their original methodological and theoretical approaches and findings, reassessing their validity and explaining how their views have evolved or changed since they originally conducted their fieldwork and published their studies.This book also offers a review of the evolution and role of community ethnographies in the context of Andean anthropology. These ethnographies had a significant influence between the 1940s and 1980s, when they could be roughly divided – following Olivia Harris – between ‘long-termist’ and ‘short-termist’ approaches, depending on predominant focuses on historical continuities or social change respectively. However, by the 1990s these works came to be widely considered as too limited and subjective in the context of wider academic changes, such as the emergence of postmodern trends, and reflective and literary turns in anthropology. Overall, the book aims to reflect on this evolution of community ethnographies in the Andes, and on their contribution to the study of Andean culture.Introduction: Community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture1. Reflections on fieldwork in Chuschi2. Losing my heart3. Deadly waters decades later4. Yanque Urinsaya: ethnography of an Andean community (a tribute to Billie Jean Isbell)5. Record keeping: ethnography and the uncertainty of contemporary community studies6. Long lines of continuity: field ethnohistory and customary conservation7. Avoiding community studies: the historical turn in Bolivian and South Andean anthropology8. In love with comunidades

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Affiche du document Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba — Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba
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This collection of essays and research articles has been designed, by its breadth of expertise and discipline, to pay suitable homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. For that reason, it includes a judicious mixture of the old and the new, including several of the leading and internationally well-established experts on Cuban history, politics and culture, but also some up-and-coming researchers in the field; that mixture and the combination of topics (some addressing the past directly, others assessing the present within a historical context) reflects Hennessy’s own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba. Preface. In memory of Alistair Hennessy Antoni Kapcia 1. Spanish republicanism and the colonial empire: Alistair Hennessey and Spain's democratic revolutionChristopher Schmidt-Nowara2. Rethinking pathways to the Cuban pastLouis A. Pérez, Jr. 3. The origins of Cuban socialismFernando Martínez Heredia4. Persuading parliament: Rafael María de Labra, Spanish colonial policy and the abolitionist debate (July 1871)Catherine Davies5. Ethnic whitening processes and the politics of race, labour and national identity in colonial Cuba: a case study of Irish immigrants, 1818–45Margaret Brehony 6. From Hispanic essays to modern reporting: the evolution of Cuban journalism, considered through the figure of Justo de LaraJordi Garrell 7. The changing shape of Cuban cinema: a report and a reflection Michael Chanan 8. A mixed economy of labour in a changing CubaSteve Ludlam9. What’s in a name? Emigrant Cubans since 1959 and the curious evolution of discourse Antoni Kapcia 10. Decentering cubanidad. Commodification, cosmopolitanism and diasporic engagement shaping the Cuban migration to post-1989 Western EuropeCatherine Krull and Jean Stubbs

Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba
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This collection of essays and research articles has been designed, by its breadth of expertise and discipline, to pay suitable homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. For that reason, it includes a judicious mixture of the old and the new, including several of the leading and internationally well-established experts on Cuban history, politics and culture, but also some up-and-coming researchers in the field; that mixture and the combination of topics (some addressing the past directly, others assessing the present within a historical context) reflects Hennessy’s own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba. Preface. In memory of Alistair Hennessy Antoni Kapcia 1. Spanish republicanism and the colonial empire: Alistair Hennessey and Spain's democratic revolutionChristopher Schmidt-Nowara2. Rethinking pathways to the Cuban pastLouis A. Pérez, Jr. 3. The origins of Cuban socialismFernando Martínez Heredia4. Persuading parliament: Rafael María de Labra, Spanish colonial policy and the abolitionist debate (July 1871)Catherine Davies5. Ethnic whitening processes and the politics of race, labour and national identity in colonial Cuba: a case study of Irish immigrants, 1818–45Margaret Brehony 6. From Hispanic essays to modern reporting: the evolution of Cuban journalism, considered through the figure of Justo de LaraJordi Garrell 7. The changing shape of Cuban cinema: a report and a reflection Michael Chanan 8. A mixed economy of labour in a changing CubaSteve Ludlam9. What’s in a name? Emigrant Cubans since 1959 and the curious evolution of discourse Antoni Kapcia 10. Decentering cubanidad. Commodification, cosmopolitanism and diasporic engagement shaping the Cuban migration to post-1989 Western EuropeCatherine Krull and Jean Stubbs

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Affiche du document Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond — Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond
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In recent years, academics, policy makers and media outlets have increasingly recognised the importance of Caribbean migrations and migrants to the histories and cultures of countries across the Northern Atlantic. Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of the lives of many of these migrants, and the contexts through which they lived and continue to live. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. The chapters in this book range across disciplines and time periods to present a vibrant understanding of the ever-changing interactions between Caribbean peoples and colonialism as they migrated within and between colonial contexts. At the heart of this book are the voices of Caribbean migrants themselves, whose critical reflections on their experiences of migration and decolonisation are interwoven with the essays of academics and activists.Prologue Rod Westmaas Introduction Jack Webb, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and William Tantam 1. Loving and leaving the new Jamaica: reckoning with the 1960s Matthew J. Smith 2. Why did we come? B. M. Nobrega 3. History to heritage: an assessment of Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, the Bahamas Kelly Delancy 4. ‘While nuff ah right and rahbit; we write and arrange’: deejay lyricism and the transcendental use of the voice in alternative public spaces in the UK William ‘Lez’ Henry 5. Journeying through the ‘motherland’ Peter Ramrayka 6. De Zie Contre Menti Kaba – when two eyes meet the lie ends. A Caribbean meditation on decolonising academic methodologies Nadine King Chambers 7. Organising for the Caribbean Anne Braithwaite 8. The consular Caribbean: consuls as agents of colonialism and decolonisation in the revolutionary Caribbean (1795–1848) Simeon Simeonov 9. To ‘stay where you are’ as a decolonial gesture: Glissant’s philosophy of Antillean space in the context of Césaire and Fanon Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez 10. Finding the Anancyesque in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the decolonisation project in Jamaica from 1938 to the present Ruth Minott Egglestone 11. Maybe one day I’ll go home Rod Westmaas

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In recent years, academics, policy makers and media outlets have increasingly recognised the importance of Caribbean migrations and migrants to the histories and cultures of countries across the Northern Atlantic. Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of the lives of many of these migrants, and the contexts through which they lived and continue to live. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. The chapters in this book range across disciplines and time periods to present a vibrant understanding of the ever-changing interactions between Caribbean peoples and colonialism as they migrated within and between colonial contexts. At the heart of this book are the voices of Caribbean migrants themselves, whose critical reflections on their experiences of migration and decolonisation are interwoven with the essays of academics and activists.Prologue Rod Westmaas Introduction Jack Webb, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and William Tantam 1. Loving and leaving the new Jamaica: reckoning with the 1960s Matthew J. Smith 2. Why did we come? B. M. Nobrega 3. History to heritage: an assessment of Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, the Bahamas Kelly Delancy 4. ‘While nuff ah right and rahbit; we write and arrange’: deejay lyricism and the transcendental use of the voice in alternative public spaces in the UK William ‘Lez’ Henry 5. Journeying through the ‘motherland’ Peter Ramrayka 6. De Zie Contre Menti Kaba – when two eyes meet the lie ends. A Caribbean meditation on decolonising academic methodologies Nadine King Chambers 7. Organising for the Caribbean Anne Braithwaite 8. The consular Caribbean: consuls as agents of colonialism and decolonisation in the revolutionary Caribbean (1795–1848) Simeon Simeonov 9. To ‘stay where you are’ as a decolonial gesture: Glissant’s philosophy of Antillean space in the context of Césaire and Fanon Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez 10. Finding the Anancyesque in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the decolonisation project in Jamaica from 1938 to the present Ruth Minott Egglestone 11. Maybe one day I’ll go home Rod Westmaas

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Affiche du document A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism? — A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism?
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In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with her neighbours.Why is Nicaragua so different? The present government has promulgated a discourse of Nicaraguan exceptionalism, arguing that Nicaragua is unique thanks to the heritage of the 1979 Sandinista revolution. This volume critically interrogates that claim, asking whether the legacy of the revolution is truly exceptional. An interdisciplinary work, the book brings together historians, anthropologists and sociologists to explore the multifarious ways in which the revolutionary past continues to shape public policy – and daily life – in Nicaragua’s tumultuous present. Introduction: exceptionalism and agency in Nicaragua’s revolutionary heritageHilary Francis1. ‘We didn’t want to be like Somoza’s Guardia’: policing, crime and Nicaraguan exceptionalismRobert Sierakowski2. ‘The revolution was so many things’ Fernanda Soto3. Nicaraguan food policy: between self-sufficiency and dependencyChristiane Berth4. On Sandinista ideas of past connections to the Soviet Union and Nicaraguan exceptionalismJohannes Wilm5. Agrarian reform in Nicaragua in the 1980s: lights and shadows of its legacy José Luis Rocha6. The difference the revolution made: decision-making in Liberal and Sandinista communities Hilary Francis7. Grassroots verticalism? A Comunidad Eclesial de Base in rural NicaraguaDavid Cooper8. Nicaraguan legacies: advances and setbacks in feminist and LGBTQ activismFlorence E. Babb9. Conclusion: exceptionalism and Nicaragua’s many revolutions Justin Wolfe

A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism?
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In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with her neighbours.Why is Nicaragua so different? The present government has promulgated a discourse of Nicaraguan exceptionalism, arguing that Nicaragua is unique thanks to the heritage of the 1979 Sandinista revolution. This volume critically interrogates that claim, asking whether the legacy of the revolution is truly exceptional. An interdisciplinary work, the book brings together historians, anthropologists and sociologists to explore the multifarious ways in which the revolutionary past continues to shape public policy – and daily life – in Nicaragua’s tumultuous present. Introduction: exceptionalism and agency in Nicaragua’s revolutionary heritageHilary Francis1. ‘We didn’t want to be like Somoza’s Guardia’: policing, crime and Nicaraguan exceptionalismRobert Sierakowski2. ‘The revolution was so many things’ Fernanda Soto3. Nicaraguan food policy: between self-sufficiency and dependencyChristiane Berth4. On Sandinista ideas of past connections to the Soviet Union and Nicaraguan exceptionalismJohannes Wilm5. Agrarian reform in Nicaragua in the 1980s: lights and shadows of its legacy José Luis Rocha6. The difference the revolution made: decision-making in Liberal and Sandinista communities Hilary Francis7. Grassroots verticalism? A Comunidad Eclesial de Base in rural NicaraguaDavid Cooper8. Nicaraguan legacies: advances and setbacks in feminist and LGBTQ activismFlorence E. Babb9. Conclusion: exceptionalism and Nicaragua’s many revolutions Justin Wolfe

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Affiche du document Creative Spaces — Creative Spaces
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Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality is an interdisciplinary exploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. The essays within the collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in the region and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new.While Latin American cities have, since their foundation, always included marginal spaces (due, for example, to the segregation of indigenous groups), the massive expansion of informal housing constructed on occupied land in the second half of the twentieth century have brought them into the collective imaginary like never before. Originally viewed as spaces of deprivation, violence, and dangerous alterity, the urban margins were later romanticized as spaces of opportunity and popular empowerment. Instead, this volume analyses the production of new art forms, political organizations and subjectivities emerging from the urban margins in Latin America, neither condemning nor idealizing the effects they produce.To account for the complex nature of contemporary urban marginality, the volume draws on research from a wide spectrum of disciplines, ranging from cultural and urban studies to architecture and sociology. Thus the collection analyzes how these different conceptions of marginal spaces work together and contribute to the imagined and material reality of the wider city.I. Where are the margins? 1. The politics of the in-between: the negotiation of urban space in Juan Rulfo’s photographs of Mexico City Lucy O’Sullivan 2. The interstitial spaces of urban sprawl: unpacking the marginal suburban geography of Santiago de Chile Cristian Silva 3. Cynicism and the denial of marginality in contemporary Chile: Mitómana (José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola, 2009) Paul Merchant II. The struggle for the streets 4. Community action, the informal city and popular politics in Cartagena (Colombia) during the National Front,1958–1974 Orlando Deavila Pertuz 5. On ‘real revolution’ and ‘killing the lion’: challenges for creative marginality in Brazilian labour struggles Lucy McMahon 6. Urban policies, innovation and inclusion: Comuna 8 of the city of Buenos Aires Anabella Roitman III. Marginal art as spatial praxis 7. Exhibitions in a ‘divided’ city: socio-spatial inequality and the display of contemporary art in Rio de Janeiro Simone Kalkman 8. The spatiality of desire in MartKín Oesterheld’s La multitud (2012) and Luis Ortega’s Dromómanos (2012) Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda 9. Afterword Creative spaces: uninhabiting the urban Geoffrey Kantaris

Creative Spaces
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Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality is an interdisciplinary exploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. The essays within the collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in the region and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new.While Latin American cities have, since their foundation, always included marginal spaces (due, for example, to the segregation of indigenous groups), the massive expansion of informal housing constructed on occupied land in the second half of the twentieth century have brought them into the collective imaginary like never before. Originally viewed as spaces of deprivation, violence, and dangerous alterity, the urban margins were later romanticized as spaces of opportunity and popular empowerment. Instead, this volume analyses the production of new art forms, political organizations and subjectivities emerging from the urban margins in Latin America, neither condemning nor idealizing the effects they produce.To account for the complex nature of contemporary urban marginality, the volume draws on research from a wide spectrum of disciplines, ranging from cultural and urban studies to architecture and sociology. Thus the collection analyzes how these different conceptions of marginal spaces work together and contribute to the imagined and material reality of the wider city.I. Where are the margins? 1. The politics of the in-between: the negotiation of urban space in Juan Rulfo’s photographs of Mexico City Lucy O’Sullivan 2. The interstitial spaces of urban sprawl: unpacking the marginal suburban geography of Santiago de Chile Cristian Silva 3. Cynicism and the denial of marginality in contemporary Chile: Mitómana (José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola, 2009) Paul Merchant II. The struggle for the streets 4. Community action, the informal city and popular politics in Cartagena (Colombia) during the National Front,1958–1974 Orlando Deavila Pertuz 5. On ‘real revolution’ and ‘killing the lion’: challenges for creative marginality in Brazilian labour struggles Lucy McMahon 6. Urban policies, innovation and inclusion: Comuna 8 of the city of Buenos Aires Anabella Roitman III. Marginal art as spatial praxis 7. Exhibitions in a ‘divided’ city: socio-spatial inequality and the display of contemporary art in Rio de Janeiro Simone Kalkman 8. The spatiality of desire in MartKín Oesterheld’s La multitud (2012) and Luis Ortega’s Dromómanos (2012) Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda 9. Afterword Creative spaces: uninhabiting the urban Geoffrey Kantaris

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Affiche du document Ravenna — Ravenna
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In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a connecting point between East and West, ensured that it remained an intermittent attraction for early medieval kings and emperors throughout the period from the late fifth to the eleventh century. Ravenna’s story is all the more interesting because it was complicated and unpredictable: discontinuous and continuous, sometimes obscure, sometimes including bursts of energetic activity. Throughout the early medieval centuries its flame sometimes flared, sometimes flickered, but never went out.Introduction1 A tale of two cities: Rome and Ravenna under Gothic rulePeter Heather2 Episcopal commemoration in late fifth-century RavennaDeborah M. Deliyannis 3 Production, promotion and reception: the visual culture of Ravenna between late antiquity and the middle agesMaria Cristina Carile 4 Ravenna in the sixth century: the archaeology of changeCarola Jäggi5 The circulation of marble in the Adriatic Sea at the time of JustinianYuri A. Marano6 Social instability and economic decline of the Ostrogothic community in the aftermath of the imperial victory: the papyri evidenceSalvatore Cosentino7 A striking evolution: the mint of Ravenna during the early middle agesVivien Prigent 8 Roman law in RavennaSimon Corcoran9 The church of Ravenna, Constantinople and Rome in the seventh centuryVeronica Ortenberg West-Harling10 Nobility, aristocracy and status in early medieval RavennaEdward M. Schoolman11 Charlemagne and RavennaJinty Nelson12 The early medieval naming-world of Ravenna, eastern Romagna and the PentapolisWolfgang Haubrichs13 San Severo and religious life in Ravenna during the ninth and tenth centuriesAndrea Augenti and Enrico Cirelli 14 Life and learning in earlier eleventh-century Ravenna: the evidence of Peter Damian’s lettersMichael Gledhill15 Culture and society in Ottonian Ravenna: imperial renewal or new beginnings?Tom Brown

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In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a connecting point between East and West, ensured that it remained an intermittent attraction for early medieval kings and emperors throughout the period from the late fifth to the eleventh century. Ravenna’s story is all the more interesting because it was complicated and unpredictable: discontinuous and continuous, sometimes obscure, sometimes including bursts of energetic activity. Throughout the early medieval centuries its flame sometimes flared, sometimes flickered, but never went out.Introduction1 A tale of two cities: Rome and Ravenna under Gothic rulePeter Heather2 Episcopal commemoration in late fifth-century RavennaDeborah M. Deliyannis 3 Production, promotion and reception: the visual culture of Ravenna between late antiquity and the middle agesMaria Cristina Carile 4 Ravenna in the sixth century: the archaeology of changeCarola Jäggi5 The circulation of marble in the Adriatic Sea at the time of JustinianYuri A. Marano6 Social instability and economic decline of the Ostrogothic community in the aftermath of the imperial victory: the papyri evidenceSalvatore Cosentino7 A striking evolution: the mint of Ravenna during the early middle agesVivien Prigent 8 Roman law in RavennaSimon Corcoran9 The church of Ravenna, Constantinople and Rome in the seventh centuryVeronica Ortenberg West-Harling10 Nobility, aristocracy and status in early medieval RavennaEdward M. Schoolman11 Charlemagne and RavennaJinty Nelson12 The early medieval naming-world of Ravenna, eastern Romagna and the PentapolisWolfgang Haubrichs13 San Severo and religious life in Ravenna during the ninth and tenth centuriesAndrea Augenti and Enrico Cirelli 14 Life and learning in earlier eleventh-century Ravenna: the evidence of Peter Damian’s lettersMichael Gledhill15 Culture and society in Ottonian Ravenna: imperial renewal or new beginnings?Tom Brown

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Affiche du document Brazil: Essays on History and Politics — Brazil: Essays on History and Politics
Leslie Bethell
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Leslie Bethell is the most respected scholar of Brazil of his generation. This has been recognized in Brazil by being made a corresponding fellow of both the Brazilian Academy of Letters and of Sciences. Perhaps best known for his book The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), Leslie Bethell’s scholarship has ranged widely not least in his editorship of the 12-volume Cambridge History of Latin America (1984-2008). In recent years he has continued to research the modern history of Brazil, much of which he has presented in invited lectures and Brazilian journals and remained unpublished in English until now. In 2010 he presented a provocative paper in the Journal of Latin American Studies on the relationship between Brazil arguing that, historically, the idea of Brazil as part of Latin America was never fully embraced by Spanish Americans or Brazilians and here he continues to reflect on this issue. Leslie Bethell’s fascination with and commitment to Brazil is revealed for the first time in his introductory autobiographical essay that traces his career from school through the many senior academic positions he has held both sides of the Atlantic.Preface Anthony Peireira Introduction: Why Brazil? An autobiographical fragment 1. Brazil and Latin America 2. Britain and Brazil (1808–1914) 3. The Paraguayan War (1864–70) 4. The decline and fall of slavery in Brazil (1850–88) 5. The long road to democracy in Brazil 6. Populism in Brazil 7. The failure of the Left in Brazil

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Leslie Bethell
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Leslie Bethell is the most respected scholar of Brazil of his generation. This has been recognized in Brazil by being made a corresponding fellow of both the Brazilian Academy of Letters and of Sciences. Perhaps best known for his book The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), Leslie Bethell’s scholarship has ranged widely not least in his editorship of the 12-volume Cambridge History of Latin America (1984-2008). In recent years he has continued to research the modern history of Brazil, much of which he has presented in invited lectures and Brazilian journals and remained unpublished in English until now. In 2010 he presented a provocative paper in the Journal of Latin American Studies on the relationship between Brazil arguing that, historically, the idea of Brazil as part of Latin America was never fully embraced by Spanish Americans or Brazilians and here he continues to reflect on this issue. Leslie Bethell’s fascination with and commitment to Brazil is revealed for the first time in his introductory autobiographical essay that traces his career from school through the many senior academic positions he has held both sides of the Atlantic.Preface Anthony Peireira Introduction: Why Brazil? An autobiographical fragment 1. Brazil and Latin America 2. Britain and Brazil (1808–1914) 3. The Paraguayan War (1864–70) 4. The decline and fall of slavery in Brazil (1850–88) 5. The long road to democracy in Brazil 6. Populism in Brazil 7. The failure of the Left in Brazil

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Affiche du document Suffrage and citizenship in Ireland, 1912-18 — Suffrage and citizenship in Ireland, 1912-18
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Professor Senia Pašeta argues that our understanding of modern Irish and British politics would be enormously enriched if we recognized two things: that the Irish and British suffrage movements were deeply connected; and that the women’s suffrage movement across the United Kingdom was shaped in fundamental ways by the Irish Question from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth. In other words, the women’s suffrage movement did not exist in a political vacuum. It interacted with, influenced and was influenced by the other main political questions of the day, and with the main political question of the day - Ireland.

Suffrage and citizenship in Ireland, 1912-18
Senia Pašeta
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19 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 14min.
Professor Senia Pašeta argues that our understanding of modern Irish and British politics would be enormously enriched if we recognized two things: that the Irish and British suffrage movements were deeply connected; and that the women’s suffrage movement across the United Kingdom was shaped in fundamental ways by the Irish Question from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth. In other words, the women’s suffrage movement did not exist in a political vacuum. It interacted with, influenced and was influenced by the other main political questions of the day, and with the main political question of the day - Ireland.

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Affiche du document The Afterlife of Apuleius — The Afterlife of Apuleius
2h34min30
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Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope.The volume gathers the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2016 at the Warburg Institute in London, in association with the Institute of Classical Studies. It includes both diachronic overviews and specific case-studies. A first series of papers focuses on The Golden Ass and its historical and geographical diffusion, from High Medieval Europe to early modern Mexico. The oriental connections of the book are also taken into account. The second part of the book examines the textual and visual destiny of Psyche’s story from the Apuleian fabula to allegorical retellings, in poetical or philosophical books and on stage. As the third series of essays indicates, the fortunes of the book led many ancient and early modern writers and translators to use it as a canonical model for reflections about the status of fiction. It also became, mostly around the beginning of the fifteenth century, a major linguistic and stylistic reference for lexicographers and neo-Latin writers : the last papers of the book deal with Renaissance polemics about ‘Apuleianism’ and the role of editors and commentators.1. The medieval ass: re-evaluating the reception of Apuleius in the High Middle Ages / Robert H. F. Carver. 2. The white goddess in Mexico: Apuleius’ Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl legacy in New Spain / Andrew Laird.3. The Ass goes east: Apuleius and Orientalism/ Carole Boidin.4. How to tell the story of Cupid and Psyche: from Fulgentius to Galeotto Del Corretto / Julia Haig Gaisser.5. Psyche’s textual journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch / Igor Candido6. An Apuleian masque? Thomas Heywood’s Love’s Mistress (1634) / Stephen Harrison7. Echoes of Apuleius’ novel in Mary Tighe’s Psyche: romantic imagination and self-fashioning / Regine May 8. Apuleius and Martianus Capella: canon, reception and pedagogy / Ahuvia Kahane9. A translation of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and the debate about fiction in the sixteenth century: L’asino d’oro by Agnolo Firenzuola (1550) / Françoise Lavocat.10. Apuleius’ Ass and Cervantes’ Dogs in Dialogue / Maria Loreto Núñez11. ‘He does not speak golden words: he brays’: Apuleius’ style and the humanistic lexicography / Clementina Marsico12. The Golden Ass under the lens of the ‘Bolognese commentator’ L Lucius Apuleius and Filippo Beroaldo / Andrea Severi

The Afterlife of Apuleius
2h34min30
Etudes littéraires
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206 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h34min.
Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope.The volume gathers the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2016 at the Warburg Institute in London, in association with the Institute of Classical Studies. It includes both diachronic overviews and specific case-studies. A first series of papers focuses on The Golden Ass and its historical and geographical diffusion, from High Medieval Europe to early modern Mexico. The oriental connections of the book are also taken into account. The second part of the book examines the textual and visual destiny of Psyche’s story from the Apuleian fabula to allegorical retellings, in poetical or philosophical books and on stage. As the third series of essays indicates, the fortunes of the book led many ancient and early modern writers and translators to use it as a canonical model for reflections about the status of fiction. It also became, mostly around the beginning of the fifteenth century, a major linguistic and stylistic reference for lexicographers and neo-Latin writers : the last papers of the book deal with Renaissance polemics about ‘Apuleianism’ and the role of editors and commentators.1. The medieval ass: re-evaluating the reception of Apuleius in the High Middle Ages / Robert H. F. Carver. 2. The white goddess in Mexico: Apuleius’ Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl legacy in New Spain / Andrew Laird.3. The Ass goes east: Apuleius and Orientalism/ Carole Boidin.4. How to tell the story of Cupid and Psyche: from Fulgentius to Galeotto Del Corretto / Julia Haig Gaisser.5. Psyche’s textual journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch / Igor Candido6. An Apuleian masque? Thomas Heywood’s Love’s Mistress (1634) / Stephen Harrison7. Echoes of Apuleius’ novel in Mary Tighe’s Psyche: romantic imagination and self-fashioning / Regine May 8. Apuleius and Martianus Capella: canon, reception and pedagogy / Ahuvia Kahane9. A translation of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and the debate about fiction in the sixteenth century: L’asino d’oro by Agnolo Firenzuola (1550) / Françoise Lavocat.10. Apuleius’ Ass and Cervantes’ Dogs in Dialogue / Maria Loreto Núñez11. ‘He does not speak golden words: he brays’: Apuleius’ style and the humanistic lexicography / Clementina Marsico12. The Golden Ass under the lens of the ‘Bolognese commentator’ L Lucius Apuleius and Filippo Beroaldo / Andrea Severi

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Affiche du document New World Objects of Knowledge — New World Objects of Knowledge
6h20min15
Littérature & Beaux Arts
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From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artefacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world.With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and museums hosting these objects. Each artifact is accompanied by a comprehensive essay covering its dynamic, often global, history and itinerary. This volume will be an indispensable catalog of New World objects and how they have helped shape our modern world.Introduction by Mark Thurner and Juan PimentelPart 1: ARTIFICIALIA1 Codex Mendoza by Daniela Bleichmar2 Macuilxochitl by Juan Pimentel3 Potosi by Kris Lane4 Piece of Eight by Alejandra Irigoin and Bridget Millmore5 Pieza de Indias by Pablo Gomez6 Rubber by Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues and Emilie Ana Carreón Blaine7 Silver Basin by Mariana Francozo8 Feathered Shield by Linda Baez9 Black by Adrian Masters10 Cards by Jorge Canizares Esguerra11 Mary’s Armadillo by Peter Mason12 Mexican Portrait by Andrés Gutiérrez Usillos13 Clay Vessel by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra14 Singing Violin by Jorge Canizares Esguerra15 Creole Cabinet by Juan Pimentel and Mark Thurner16 Modern Quipu by Sabine and William Hyland17 Memory Palaces by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra18 Inca Mummy by Christopher Heaney19 Xilonen by Miruna Achim20 Machu Picchu by Amy Cox-HallPART 2: NATURALIA21 Amazon by Roberto Chauca22 Bird of Paradise by Jose Ramon Marcaida23 Emeralds by Kris Lane24 Pearls by Jorge Canizares Esguerra25 Cochineal by Miruna Achim26 Opossum by Jose Ramon Marcaida27 Guinea Pig by Helen Cowie28 Bezoar by Jose Pardo-Tomas29 Cacao by Peter Mason30 Strawberry by Elisa and Ana Sevilla31 Volcano by Sophie Brockmann32 Andes by Mark Thurner and Jorge Canizares-Esguerra33 Anteater by Helen Cowie34 Megatherium by Juan Pimentel35 Tapir by Irina Podgorny36 Cinchona by Matthew Crawford37 Potato by Rebecca Earle38 Guano by Gregory Cushman39 Tortoise by Elizabeth Hennessey40 Darwin’s Hummingbird by Iris Montero

New World Objects of Knowledge
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Littérature & Beaux Arts
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507 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h20min.
From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artefacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world.With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and museums hosting these objects. Each artifact is accompanied by a comprehensive essay covering its dynamic, often global, history and itinerary. This volume will be an indispensable catalog of New World objects and how they have helped shape our modern world.Introduction by Mark Thurner and Juan PimentelPart 1: ARTIFICIALIA1 Codex Mendoza by Daniela Bleichmar2 Macuilxochitl by Juan Pimentel3 Potosi by Kris Lane4 Piece of Eight by Alejandra Irigoin and Bridget Millmore5 Pieza de Indias by Pablo Gomez6 Rubber by Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues and Emilie Ana Carreón Blaine7 Silver Basin by Mariana Francozo8 Feathered Shield by Linda Baez9 Black by Adrian Masters10 Cards by Jorge Canizares Esguerra11 Mary’s Armadillo by Peter Mason12 Mexican Portrait by Andrés Gutiérrez Usillos13 Clay Vessel by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra14 Singing Violin by Jorge Canizares Esguerra15 Creole Cabinet by Juan Pimentel and Mark Thurner16 Modern Quipu by Sabine and William Hyland17 Memory Palaces by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra18 Inca Mummy by Christopher Heaney19 Xilonen by Miruna Achim20 Machu Picchu by Amy Cox-HallPART 2: NATURALIA21 Amazon by Roberto Chauca22 Bird of Paradise by Jose Ramon Marcaida23 Emeralds by Kris Lane24 Pearls by Jorge Canizares Esguerra25 Cochineal by Miruna Achim26 Opossum by Jose Ramon Marcaida27 Guinea Pig by Helen Cowie28 Bezoar by Jose Pardo-Tomas29 Cacao by Peter Mason30 Strawberry by Elisa and Ana Sevilla31 Volcano by Sophie Brockmann32 Andes by Mark Thurner and Jorge Canizares-Esguerra33 Anteater by Helen Cowie34 Megatherium by Juan Pimentel35 Tapir by Irina Podgorny36 Cinchona by Matthew Crawford37 Potato by Rebecca Earle38 Guano by Gregory Cushman39 Tortoise by Elizabeth Hennessey40 Darwin’s Hummingbird by Iris Montero

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