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East Central Europe and Communism
The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956...
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Abortion across Borders
Contributors: Barbara Baird, Niklas Barke, Anna Bogic, Hayley Brown, Lori A. Brown, Cathrine Chambers, Ewelina Ciaputa, Gayle Davis, Mary Gilmartin, Agata Ignaciuk, Sinéad Kennedy, Lena Lennerhed, Jo-Ann MacDonald, Colleen MacQuarrie, Jane O'Neill, Clare Parker, Christabelle Sethna, Sally Sheldon
Art and Upheaval
Citizen artists successfully rebuild the social infrastructure in six communities devastated by war, repression and dislocation. Author William Cleveland tells remarkable stories from Northern Ireland, Cambodia, South Africa, United States (Watts, Los Angeles), aboriginal Australia, and Serbia, about artists who resolve conflict, heal unspeakable trauma, give voice to the forgotten and disappeared, and restitch the cultural fabric of their communities. Art can be a powerful agent of personal, institutional and community change. The stories in this book have valuable implications for artists, academics, educators, human service providers, philanthropists, and community leaders throughout the world. The artists documented in the book have generated new technologies for advocacy, organizing, peacemaking, healing trauma and the rebuilding of community. Creativity is our most powerful capacity, and it can mitigate and heal our most destructive tendencies.
Phantomgrenzen und regionale Autonomie im postsozialistischen Südosteuropa
Neue Wissensordnungen nach 1989: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des postsozialistischen Südosteuropas. Neben neuen Staatsgrenzen brachte die postsozialistische Zeit in vielen Teilen Osteuropas verschiedene Regionalismen hervor, die sich als europäische(re) Alternative zu nationalen Zugehörigkeiten präsentierten. Die »Rückkehr" historischer Regionen ging fast ausnahmslos mit der Wiederbelebung einer idealisierten imperialen Vergangenheit und dem scheinbaren »Wiederauftauchen" der alten Grenzen einher - den Phantomgrenzen. Đorđe Tomić widmet sich der Vojvodina, dem einzigen Teil des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens, der nach dem Staatszerfall kein unabhängiger Staat wurde. Zum Vergleich herangezogen wird das in Serbien wie im Nachbarstaat Rumänien neu »entdeckte" Banat. In beiden Fällen entstanden Vorstellungen von den Spezifika des jeweiligen Gebiets, die mit der historischen Zugehörigkeit der Region zum »Habsburger Mitteleuropa" begründet wurden. Im Laufe des letzten Vierteljahrhunderts fügten sich diese Begründungen zu neuen regionalistischen Narrativen zusammen. Wie sind diese entstanden, welche Akteure haben welche Argumente eingesetzt und zu welchem Zweck?
Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe
Due to the strong sense among the student community of belonging to a specific social group, student revolts have been an integral part of the university throughout its history. Ironically, since the Middle Ages, the advantageous position of students in society as part of the social elite undoubtedly enforced their critical approach. This edited collection studies the role of students as a critical mass within their urban context and society through examples of student revolts from the foundation period of universities in the Middle Ages until today, covering the whole European continent. A dominant theme is the large degree of continuity visible in student revolts across space and time, esp...
Performing Nerves
Academic interest in hysteria has burgeoned in recent decades. The topic has been probed by feminist theorists, cultural studies specialists, literary scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, medical and art historians, as well as novelists. The hysteric is construed as a powerless, voiceless subject, marginalised by the forces of the patriarchy that have been the root cause of their distress, dissembling, and disablement. In Performing Nerves, Anna Furse interweaves her artistic and academic practice, drawing on her own performance texts to explore four different versions of debilitating hysteric suffering. Each text is extensively annotated, revealing the dramaturgical logic...
Music and Democracy
Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through music technology to the use of music in imposing authoritarian, neoliberal or even fascist political ideas in the past and present up to music's impact on political systems, governmental representation, and socio-political realities. The volume further features approaches in the fields of gender, migration, disability, and digitalization.
