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This pioneering work advocates for a shift toward inclusivity in the UK translated literature landscape, investigating and challenging unconscious bias around women in translation and building on existing research highlighting the role of translators as activists and agents and the possibilities for these new theoretical models to contribute to meaningful industry change. The book sets out the context for the new subdiscipline of feminist translator studies, positing this as an essential mechanism to work towards diversity in the translated literature sector of the publishing industry. In a series of five case studies that each exemplify a key component of the feminist translator studies "to...
“Essential.” —Margaret Atwood An urgent call to action and a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe from an award-winning journalist and acclaimed political thinker. How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don’t march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award-winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to South America, in order to arm the reader with the tools to recognise it and take action. Weaving memoir, history and clear-sighted argument, Temelkuran proposes alternative answers to the pressing—and too often paralysing—political questions of our time. How to Lose a Country is an exploration of the insidious ideas at the core of these movements and an urgent, eloquent defence of democracy. This 2024 edition includes a new foreword by the author.
The history of walls – as a way to keep people in or out – is also the history of people managing to get around, over and under them. From the Berlin Wall and the Mexico–US border, to the barbed wire fences of Bangladesh’s refugee camps, the short stories in this anthology explore the barriers that have sought to divide communities and nations, and their traumatic effects on people’s lives and histories. At a time when more walls are being built than are being brought down, All Walls Collapse brings together writing from across national, ethnic and linguistic borders, challenging the political impulse to separate and segregate, and celebrating the role of literature in traversing division.
Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane. In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us a new vocabulary for the political action that the twenty-first century demands. Above all, this book will challenge you to have faith in the other human beings we share this planet with, to turn away from an uncaring world and instead build a new one with compassion.
Karen Shelby addresses the IJzertoren Memorial, which is dedicated to the Flemish dead of the Great War, and the role the monument has played in the discussions among the various political, social and cultural ideologies of the Flemish community.
Expo 58 - Good-looking girls and sinister spies: a naive Englishman at loose in Europe in Jonathan Coe's brilliant comic novel London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century, and the first to be held since the Second World War. As soon as he arrives at the site, Thomas feels that he has escaped a repressed, backward-looking country and fallen headlong into an era of modernity and optimism. He is equally bewitched by the surre...
Geschiedenis is actueler dan ooit. Het brede publiek snakt naar verhalen over het verleden. Historische games en films 'gebaseerd op waargebeurde feiten' voeren de hitlijsten aan. Ook politici spreken graag hun woordje mee. En toch staat het vak geschiedenis onder druk in het onderwijs. Aan de universiteiten lijdt het historische onderzoek dan weer onder hyperspecialisering, verengelsing en een ver doorgedreven marktdenken. Hoe kunnen academische historici in die omstandigheden nog in dialoog gaan met de samenleving? In de afgelopen drie decennia heeft Bruno De Wever - waarschijnlijk de belangrijkste publiekshistoricus van Vlaanderen - zijn hoofd meer dan eens gebroken over deze vragen. Naar aanleiding van zijn emeritaat zoeken enkele van zijn collega's en oud-studenten mee naar een antwoord. Waarom? Omdat geschiedenis nooit vrijblijvend is. Onder hoofdredactie van Koen Aerts, Maarten Van Ginderachter, Antoon Vrints en Nico Wouters. Met bijdragen van Gita Deneckere, Giselle Nath, Annelies Beck, Kaat Wils, Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse, Berber Bevernage, Pieter Lagrou, Margo De Koster, Laura Nys, Fien Danniau en Christophe Verbruggen.
Starting with the basic question "what is this place?", award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP government – for which she lost her job as a journalist – Temelkuran draws strength and wisdom from people, places and artistic expression. The result is a beautifully rendered account of the struggles, hopes and tragedies which make Turkey what it is today. Lamenting the commercialisation and authoritarianism which increasingly characterises Turkish society, Temelkuran sees hope in the Gezi Park protests of 2013, the electoral breakthrough of the progressive HDP party in 2015 and in the simple kindness of ordinary people. Much more than either straightforward history or memoir, Turkey: the Insane the Melancholy is like sitting with a friendly stranger who, over raki or coffee, reveals the secrets of this rich and complex country – the historic "bridge" between east and west.
Hoewel ze reeds als kind niet goed in haar vel zat en elke kans aangreep om in een vrouwenrol te kruipen, outte Bo zich uiteindelijk pas op 58 jarige leeftijd als transgender. In haar autobiografie vertelt Bo Van Spilbeeck over haar vele jaren als vrouw in een mannenlichaam, haar interne strijd, de definitieve beslissing om vrouw te worden, haar coming-out , haar ervaringen tijdens de geslachtstransitie en wat het betekent om vrouw te zijn. Met haar boek steekt ze een hart onder de riem van alle transgenders. Tegelijkertijd is het een dappere en inspirerende getuigenis over het recht van iedereen - man of vrouw, jong of oud - om zichzelf te kunnen zijn, wars van vooroordelen en zonder discriminatie.
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