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Inconvenient Memories
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Author : Anna Wang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Inconvenient Memories written by Anna Wang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with categories.
Inconvenient Memories is a rare and truthful memoir of a young woman's coming of age amid the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. In 1989, Anna Wang was one of a lucky few who worked for a Japanese company, Canon. She traveled each day between her grandmother's dilapidated commune-style apartment and an extravagant office just steps from Tiananmen Square. Her daily commute on Beijing's impossibly crowded buses brought into view the full spectrum of China's economic and social inequalities during the economic transition. When Tiananmen Protests broke out, her Japanese boss was concerned whether the protests would obstruct Canon's assembly plant in China, and she was sent to Tiananmen Square on a daily basis to take photos for her boss to analyze for evidence of turning tides. From the perspective as a member of the emerging middle class, she observed firsthand that Tiananmen Protests stemmed from Chinese people's longing for political freedom and their fear for the nascent market economy, an observation that readers have never come across from the various accounts of the historical events so far.
It S A Little Inconvenient
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Author : Althea Farren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
It S A Little Inconvenient written by Althea Farren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Farmers categories.
When asked by the BBC's David Dimbleby in June 2000 about his government's failure to uphold the law, Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe said that, compared with the injustices his people had endured during the colonial era, those farmers whose farms had been violently and illegally occupied, were suffering a little inconvenience. Mugabe himself, his wealthy relatives (including his wife Grace) and the ZANU-PF hierarchy, not landless blacks, are the new owners of Zimbabwe's once productive commercial farms. Hyperinflation, economic collapse and starvation are the consequences of his land-grab. In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city, the members of a book club continue to meet once a month as they've been doing for more than 20 years. Some of them are politically active. Others have no wish to get involved. As the situation continues to deteriorate, those who are entitled to citizenship elsewhere have to decide whether to stay or whether to leave. Rhodesia (and then Zimbabwe) had been the author's home for 57 years.
World War Ii Memory And Contested Commemorations In Europe And Russia
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Author : Jennifer A. Yoder
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-31
World War Ii Memory And Contested Commemorations In Europe And Russia written by Jennifer A. Yoder and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-31 with History categories.
Instrumentalization of the wartime past for political gain is the subject of this study of eleven World War II commemorations. Using a comparative, conceptually original approach, Yoder identifies the actors who manipulate memory surrounding wartime anniversaries, such as the bombing of Dresden and ceremonies to honor fallen soldiers and fascist collaborators. The cases of memory contestation span three geographic regions, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia, recognizing that each developed distinctive interpretations of the war and different patterns of memory politics. This empirically rich study reveals the grievances that motivate memory challengers and their strategies for shaping the commemoration discourses and rituals. The memory challengers' toolkit includes varieties of emotional manipulation, subtle distortion, revisionism and full-scale denial. The study finds that, while there are differences in context and strategy across cases and regions, there are also areas of convergence. Moreover, a memory challenge in one country can spill over into others with serious consequences for foreign relations. While World War II Memory and Contested Commemorations in Europe and Russia deals with debates and narratives about events in the last century, its focus is on power, persuasion, and identity in the present.
Memory And Change In Europe
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Author : Małgorzata Pakier
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015-11-01
Memory And Change In Europe written by Małgorzata Pakier and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-01 with History categories.
In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region’s experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.
Memory And Cultural History Of The Spanish Civil War
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-10-02
Memory And Cultural History Of The Spanish Civil War written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-02 with History categories.
The authors in this anthology explore how we are to rethink political and social narratives of the Spanish Civil War at the turn of the twenty-first century. The questions addressed here are based on a solid intellectual conviction of all the contributors to resist facile arguments both on the Right and the Left, concerning the historical and collective memory of the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship in the milieu of post-transition to democracy. Central to a true democratic historical narrative is the commitment to listening to the other experiences and the willingness to rethink our present(s) in light of our past(s). The volume is divided in six parts: I. Institutional Realms of Memory; II. Past Imperfect: Gender Archetypes in Retrospect; III. The Many Languages of Domesticity; IV. Realms of Oblivion: Hunger, Repression, and Violence; V. Strangers to Ourselves: Autobiographical Testimonies; and VI. The Orient Within: Myths of Hispano-Arabic Identity. Contributors are Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Álex Bueno, Fernando Martínez López, Miguel Gómez Oliver, Mary Ann Dellinger, Geoffrey Jensen, Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernández, María del Mar Logroño Narbona, M. Cinta Ramblado Minero, Deirdre Finnerty, Victoria L. Enders, Pilar Domínguez Prats, Sofia Rodríguez López, Óscar Rodríguez Barreira, Nerea Aresti, and Miren Llona. Listed by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2014
Traitors Collaborators And Deserters In Contemporary European Politics Of Memory
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Author : Gelinada Grinchenko
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-12-01
Traitors Collaborators And Deserters In Contemporary European Politics Of Memory written by Gelinada Grinchenko and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with Social Science categories.
This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to shaping and imposition of “formulas for betrayal” as a result of changing memory politics in post-war Europe. The contributors, who specialize in history, sociology, anthropology, memory studies, media studies and cultural studies, discuss the exertion of political control over memory (including the selection, imposition, silencing or ideological “twisting” of facts), the usage of “formulas for betrayal” in various cultural-political contexts, and the discursive framing of the betraying subject for the purpose of legitimizing various memory regimes and ideologies.
Handbook Of Pre Modern Nordic Memory Studies
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Author : Jürg Glauser
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-11-19
Handbook Of Pre Modern Nordic Memory Studies written by Jürg Glauser and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.
European Civil War Films
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Author : Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
European Civil War Films written by Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in cultural memory and investigates the ways in which cinematic postmemory is problematic. Many of the films present an idealized past that glosses over the reality of these civil wars, at times producing a nostalgic discourse of loss and longing. Other films engage with the past in a melancholic fashion. These cinematic discourses articulate contemporary concerns, especially the loss of ideology and a utopian political horizon in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989, a date that marks a significant break in European history and an accompanying paradigm shift in European cultural memory. Filmmakers examined include Trueba, Cuerda, Loach, Jordan, Kusturica, Dragojevic, and Angelopoulos.
Contested Selves
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Author : Katja Herges
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
Contested Selves written by Katja Herges and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Autobiography categories.
Investigates the field of German life writing, from Rahel Levin Varnhagen around 1800 to Carmen Sylva a century later, from Döblin, Becher, women's WWII diaries, German-Jewish memoirs, and East German women's interview literatureto the autofiction of Lena Gorelik.
The Future Of The Mind
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Author : Michio Kaku
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2014-02-25
The Future Of The Mind written by Michio Kaku and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Science categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. “Compelling…Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip.” —The New York Times Book Review The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality. This scientific tour de force unveils the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world—all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics—including recent experiments in telepathy, mind control, avatars, telekinesis, and recording memories and dreams. The Future of the Mind is an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience. Dr. Kaku looks toward the day when we may achieve the ability to upload the human brain to a computer, neuron for neuron; project thoughts and emotions around the world on a brain-net; take a “smart pill” to enhance cognition; send our consciousness across the universe; and push the very limits of immortality.