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This book explores the experiences of people affected by the Partition of British India and princely states in 1947 through first-person accounts, memoirs, archival material, literature, and cinema. It focuses on the displacement, violence and trauma of the people affected and interrogates the interrelationships between nationalism, temporality, religion, and citizenship.The authors examine the mass migrations triggered by the 1947 Partition, amidst nationalist posturing, religious violence, and debates on crucial issues of refugee rehabilitation and redistribution of land and resources. It focuses on the drawing of the borders and the ruptures in the socio-cultural bonds within regions and communities brought on by demographic changes, violence, and displacement. The volume reflects on the significant mark left by the event on the socio-political sensibilities of various communities, and the questions of identity and citizenship. It also studies the effects of Partition on the politics of Bangladesh and India's east and northeast states, specifically Bengal, Assam and Tripura.A significant addition to the existing corpus on Partition historiography, this book will be of interest to modern Indian history, partition studies, border studies, sociology, refugee and migration studies, cultural studies, literature, post-colonial studies and South Asian studies, particularly those concerned with Bengal, Northeast India and Bangladesh.

Zwei mutige Frauen in den wilden Sechzigerjahren, im Kalten Krieg bis zur friedlichen Revolution 1989.Wien 1967/Prag 1968.Natascha(18) studiert Slawistik und ist das Vorbild für ihre Freundin Margit, die als erste in ihrer Familie auf die Uni geht und Bohemistik inskribiert. Zwischen Vorlesungen und der Gründung einer Theatergruppe beobachten sie gebannt die Vorgänge in der kommunistischen Tschechoslowakei. Als mit dem Prager Frühling auch Reisefreiheit kommt, wollen die beiden Freundinnen Anfang 1968 mit anderen Studierenden in die CSSR fahren, um die Demonstrierenden zu unterstützen. Nataschas Mutter, Loretta, die 1945 von dort vertrieben wurde, würde zu gern ihre Heimat Reichenberg (Liberec) wiedersehen und schließt sich an - um so nebenbei auf die jungen Frauen aufzupassen. Doch ist das wirklich klug? Und auch frühere Bekannte nutzen die Chance, alte Rechnungen zu begleichen. Während Margit sich in Prag in einen tschechischen Studenten verliebt, nehmen die politischen Vorgänge ihren Lauf ... und jede und jeder muss schließlich sehen, wo er oder sie bleibt. Denn die Grenzen trennen nach dem Einmarsch der Sowjets in der CSSR für Jahrzehnte. Gibt es eine Chance für die Liebe zwischen zwei unterschiedlichen politischen Kulturen?

Viel mehr als nur eine Liebesgeschichte.Macht die Geschichte Gustavs auf dich zunächst den Eindruck einer ganz gewöhnlichen Liebesgeschichte zweier junger Menschen, so verzaubert dich doch jede Szene auf magische Weise mit ihrem ganz eigenen Flair. Tauche mit Gustav ein in seine Welt, die sich voller Farben, pulsierendem Leben und tiefgründiger Liebe präsentiert.Wie das Salz in der SuppeErotik verbirgt sich zwischen den Zeilen, die ein Prickeln auslöst, dem du dich nicht entziehen kannst. Große Emotionen entführen dich in eine Dimension, die von Wärme und einem Glücksgefühl erfüllt ist. Ein bißchen wie im freien FallMit Gustavs Geschichte abonnierst du das Allroundpaket des ganz normalen Lebens in Kombination mit der inspirienden Message, das Leben in vollen Zügen zu genießen.Gleichzeitig erlebst du, wie die Melodie des Lebens eine sehnsuchtsvolle Hymne gegen den Verlust der Träume und Leidenschaft spielt.Die perfekte Lektüre zum Träumen - lass dich von nostalgischen Erinnerungen berauschen.

Discover the architectural wonders of Sarajevo, a city that bears the vivid scars of its complex history. From hosting the 1984 Winter Olympics to enduring a brutal civil war in the 1990s, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina has woven its tumultuous past into its urban fabric. Today, this modern metropolis harmoniously combines the remnants of Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian influence along with the striking architecture of the Yugoslav socialist era. In this captivating architectural guide, explore 150 landmarks spanning the last century, carefully divided into four enlightening chapters. Immerse yourself in the city's rich cultural heritage as the authors effortlessly navigate and bring to life the diverse architectural tapestry of Sarajevo. With detailed maps provided, you'll have no trouble pinpointing each building's exact location, allowing for an in-depth exploration of the city's architectural treasures. Whether you're a passionate traveller or an avid enthusiast of architecture, this guide will be your trusty companion as you unveil the extraordinary tales etched onto the walls of Sarajevo. Experience the city's history unfold before your eyes and be inspired by its resilient spirit, as it continues to shape and redefine its captivating skyline.

WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House MovedTonia Carless Robin Serjeant paula roushJames Benedict Brown Matthew HynamThe book is a photographic archive and text of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of wholesale house moving (husflyttningar) in the region, through a single, historic house move in Umeå, 2021. The main frame of analysis is the spatial politics of un-building. It is an investigation of the vernacular mobility of shifting built and occupied forms in relation to ahistoric and future context of urban reconfiguration, a proposed architecture of de-growth in Northern Sweden. The visual work explores context through the form of the book itself. It is also a potential model that constructs and translates analysis of the space. It is a collaborative architectural work to document the house move and other spatial productions, models, drawings and collage of the space beneath and between the ground and house, image projections, exhibitions and events, as public exchange.Paperback edition for the opening of Smedjan UmArtsUmeå University SwedenJune 16 &17 2023Funded by UmArts A Small Visionary Project Award

Follow Ralph and Murray's adventures and see how to live happily in a diverse world. Experience empathy, kindness, compassion and be empowered to stand up for others. Travel along narrating the story of the author's fictional family.

"Throughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union strategized to prop up friendly dictatorships abroad. Today, it is commonly assumed that the two superpowers' military aid enabled the survival of allied autocrats, from Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek to Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam. In Up in Arms, political scientist Adam E. Casey rebuts the received wisdom: Cold War-era aid to autocracies often backfired. Casey draws on extensive original data to show that, despite billions poured into friendly regimes, US-backed dictators lasted no longer in power than those without outside help. In fact, American aid regularly destabilized autocratic regimes. The United States encouraged the establishment of strong, independent armies like its own, which then often incubated coups. By contrast, Soviet aid incentivized the subordination of the army to the ruling regime, neutralizing the threat of military takeover. Ultimately, Casey concludes, it is subservient militaries-not outside aid-that help autocrats maintain power. In an era of renewed great power competition, Up in Arms offers invaluable insights into the unforeseen consequences of overseas meddling, revealing how military aid can help pull down dictators as often as it props them up"--

Als Marie auf der Flucht vor einer enttäuschenden Liebesbeziehung nach Frankreich reist, landet sie in Villandraut, einem seltsam schläfrig und verwunschen wirkenden Ort. Auf der Suche nach einer Unterkunft lernt sie den schüchternen und recht exzentrischen Jacques kennen.Während ihres Aufenthaltes in seinem Haus gibt es verwirrende und rätselhafte Begebenheiten, die offenbar alle mit einer mittelalterlichen Sage um die Schwester eines Ritters zusammenhängen.Mithilfe der forschen Bretonin Louanne kommt Marie dem Geheimnis ihres Gastgebers und einem alten Fluch auf die Spur...

"Wenn man die Geschichte unseres Landes nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg schreiben wird, kann man getrost auf die Tonnen bedruckten Papiers der Sozialforscher verzichten und sich Loriots gesammelten Werken zuwenden: Das sind wir, in Glanz und Elend", konstatiert Christoph Stölzl im Nachwort zu Loriots Gesammelter Prosa. Dieser Band geht der These von Loriots Werk als Kondensat der BRD-Geschichte aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive nach. Er versammelt 15 wissenschaftliche Zugänge zum Werk des großen Humoristen. Weil Loriots Schaffen Grafik, TV, Text, Musik und Kino vereint, ergänzen einander hier historische, kunst- und literaturgeschichtliche, linguistische, medienwissenschaftliche sowie soziologische Perspektiven. Die gemeinsame Fragestellung aller Beiträge macht den Band zugleich auch für ein interessiertes Publikum jenseits der Wissenschaft interessant: Es geht um das Verhältnis von Loriots Werk zu seiner Gegenwart, um historische, soziale und politische Hintergründe und nicht zuletzt darum, mit welchen Verfahren die Kunst Vicco von Bülows operiert. Ziel des Bandes ist es, eine bisher weitestgehend ausgebliebene, sowohl interdisziplinäre als auch historisierende Forschung zu seinem Werk anzustoßen und einen Einblick in Loriots Perspektive auf Geschichte und Sozialstruktur der alten BRD vor der Wiedervereinigung zu geben.

Das Buch hat die Aufarbeitung der Gewalt- und Missbrauchserfahrungen in Einrichtungen der Sozialen Arbeit in Deutschland zum Thema. Aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive geht es um die Frage Zentral wie weit eine Aufarbeitung innerhalb der Profession erfolgt ist. Welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich für Betroffene und Einrichtungen? Wie schlägt sich die Aufarbeitung im Menschenrechtsdiskurs und Praxis-Konzepten nieder? Es geht noch immer darum, Öffentlichkeit herzustellen, wie auch diese zweite Auflage zeigt.

This book tells us the synthesis of forty years of journalistic investigation of José Luis Cabada Delgado through the monthly Peru News Review, edited and distributed in Los Angeles - California - USA. Winner of the Inter-American Press Community - IAPA award in the Human Rights category in Guadalajara, Mexico, for his denunciations of the mistreatment of Sheepherders in California. A compendium of situations where the corruption that surrounds the high spheres of power of the embassies and consulates in the United States and Peru comes to light. "Throughout the years, we have insistently defended the image of the Diplomatic Service, denouncing the inept and shameless people who still swarm in the ranks of such an important and vital institution for the country. The moralization and reorganization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is imperative."José Cabada, EditorJANUARY 2000

A notable absence, a muting, making invisible. Redaction extends beyond the simple black squares as incomplete redactions - stamps marked with 'deleted' covering the text- white squares, and handmade notations. Each black square signifies absence. It serves as a reminder for enforced forgetfulness. Uncovering the secret behind the mask and discovering the text underneath seems like a daring task, but is the redacted information really gone? What is visible in cultural spaces, and what is invisible? In attempts to appeal to the public, what is redacted? We accept any theme that explores the theme of CENSORSHIP. Potential topics include: Relationship between ethics and empathy flexibility of ethics meaning-makingCultural taboos and disgust Repatriation in cultural institutionsMemorialization (death and mourning)Right to privacy, what is private (public vs. private spheres)Invisible labor preparatory unpaid co-curation internsSalary transparency Invisible illness/disability and accessibilityUnderrepresented narratives and communities HouselessnessQueer and Trans, Political radicalsRegulated behaviors in cultural institutionsTainted Funding and/or DonorsDestruction of material culture/art (intentional) Politics/news; muted movements GatekeepingBody-mind politics + a(sexuality)

A notable absence, a muting, making invisible. Redaction extends beyond the simple black squares as incomplete redactions - stamps marked with 'deleted' covering the text- white squares, and handmade notations. Each black square signifies absence. It serves as a reminder for enforced forgetfulness. Uncovering the secret behind the mask and discovering the text underneath seems like a daring task, but is the redacted information really gone? What is visible in cultural spaces, and what is invisible? In attempts to appeal to the public, what is redacted? We accept any theme that explores the theme of CENSORSHIP. Potential topics include: Relationship between ethics and empathy flexibility of ethics meaning-makingCultural taboos and disgust Repatriation in cultural institutionsMemorialization (death and mourning)Right to privacy, what is private (public vs. private spheres)Invisible labor preparatory unpaid co-curation internsSalary transparency Invisible illness/disability and accessibilityUnderrepresented narratives and communities HouselessnessQueer and Trans, Political radicalsRegulated behaviors in cultural institutionsTainted Funding and/or DonorsDestruction of material culture/art (intentional) Politics/news; muted movements GatekeepingBody-mind politics + a(sexuality)

"This book is essential if you're considering building any of these aircraft in scale." -- IPMS/USADelve into the rich history of the UTi MiG-15, a legendary aircraft that played a crucial role in the Polish Air Force. This comprehensive book provides a detailed exploration of its service, including the Czechoslovak-built CS-102 variant. Discover the fascinating journey of the aircraft conversion to the SBLim-1 and SBLim-2, which enhanced its capabilities and performance. Uncover rare and unpublished black and white period photos that offer a unique glimpse into the aircraft's operational life. Additionally, admire a stunning collection of color profiles that showcase the captivating livery of the UTi MiG-15 and its various versions.

The Midway-class were the US Navy's biggest carriers built during World War II. Superbly illustrated, this explains how they became the backbone of the Cold War fleet.

Record-breaking England cricketer, wartime RAF hero, Tottenham Hotspur footballer, and husband to five wives... this is the captivating life of one of England's most remarkable yet often overlooked cricketing heroes.571 first-class matches from 1934 to 1958. 36,985 runs. 29th on all-time lists. Bill Edrich was one of the greatest cricket sensations of his time along with Denis Compton and Len Hutton. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1940 and played association football for Norwich City and Tottenham Hotspur during the 1930s.In the first biography for 30 years, award-winning writer Leo McKinstry recounts Edrich's audacity both as a cricketer and RAF pilot. Edrich's flying prowess awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and a promotion to Squadron Leader after his part in a courageous daylight raid over Cologne in August 1941.After the war, Edrich's life took a few wrong turns as he married an impressive five times and repeatedly clashed with the cricket hierarchy. As a consequence, he was left out of the tour of Australia in 1950-51 which ended up costing the team greatly. Edrich redeemed himself a few years later as he drove the victory home in the 1953 Ashes and helped to bring back the trophy in his last tour of Australia in 1954-55.A history of cricket victories, wartime glory and a life lived to the fullest, this compelling biography reveals the story of one of cricketing's greatest characters.

Thirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about modernism, the work remains among the “most audacious painting[s] ever seen in France,” as Ross King described it in The Judgement of Paris (2006).As Manet did with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, the most provocative painters today collapse the historical and the contemporary onto one plane. Jeffrey Deitch invited a group of these influential artists to create their own versions, combined here with historical responses to Manet’s painting. The slim volume features these often biting and satirical works alongside essays discussing Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe’s enduring influence on contemporary figurative painting.

"A major monograph of the American realist artist, descendant of one of America's most revered artistic families, and painter of dark and uneasy subjects. This book traces a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting, imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), famous for his hyperrealist paintings of farm animals and Maine lighthouses. The focus in this volume is on the chilling thread that runs through his work, present but not overwhelming, and ever-evolving with his style and subjects. Whether he is introducing curious characters or surveying strange landscapes, Wyeth is at home with uneasy subjects and a master of the unsettled mood. Like his father, Andrew Wyeth, and grandfather N. C. Wyeth before him, Jamie Wyeth splits his time between the Brandywine River Valley of Pennsylvania and Delaware and the mid-coast of Maine. In these two locales Wyeth has passed through many "obsessions," as he calls his favored subjects: farm tools brimming with the potential for violence, eccentric portraits and unnerving figure studies, haunted places, and possessed plants and animals. In addition to the main essay, contributors explore the creation of similarly unsettling moods in film, dance, sound artistry, and classical music" --

Recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award for Lifetime Achievement and the AIA Gold Medal, Antoine Predock was an icon of American architecture. This book is the comprehensive consideration of his life’s work.A trailblazing original, Predock was his own tour de force. In his work, steel, glass, and concrete were combined with natural materials to celebrate modern life. Initially considered a regionalist architect—one who had captured the power of the desert—he went on to re-establish the importance of place in architecture in the tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright, Luis Barragan, and Louis Kahn. He made experience—what Kahn would have called spiritual experience—once again important in architecture.As critic for Time magazine, writing of Predock’s work, Kurt Andersen observed: “[it is] tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive.”  Featuring the wide range of Predock’s designed and built structures, including houses, schools, hotels, parks, theaters, nature centers, and more, this is an all-encompassing career/life “memoirograph.” It charts the architect’s journey from his beginnings, to his early days as a professional starting his own studio with the groundbreaking La Luz Community project, up to the present day, including the landmark Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The chronological presentation includes Predock’s travel, travel sketches, and kinesthetic pursuits, encapsulating a life in architecture. Rich and multifaceted, like the work itself, this book showcases 3,500 photographs and features more than twenty gatefolds, which open to express the full scope of this modern master.

Deeply committed to social justice, artist Tomashi Jackson creates vibrant prints, paintings, videos, textiles, and sculptures that powerfully explore systemic inequities found throughout US history. This is the first book to present the evolution of Jackson’s work.Over the course of her career, Jackson has closely investigated specific histories related to cities, lands, and individuals in the United States, with the purpose of revealing how systemic racism and civil rights advocacy have informed America’s approach to housing, education, transportation, voter disenfranchisement, police brutality, migration, and agriculture. Inspired by Josef Albers’s research on the relativity of color, she employs image layering and the effects of light and perception toward illuminating underrecognized patterns of activism, resistance, oppression, and societal advances.This volume offers an opportunity to look comprehensively at overarching themes and developments in her process by gathering bodies of work in a variety of media created over time and in different locations. Jackson’s engaging and nuanced approach to US history situates her as one of the most relevant artists practicing today.

Enter the world of OSGEMEOS, the Brazilian twins driving international graffiti culture.Contemporary art is sometimes considered an austere matter: ascetic in palette, serious in tone, a subject for sober contemplation. That stereotype is exploded—ecstatically, and in full color—by the work of OSGEMEOS, trailblazing twin Brazilian artists with a practice as firmly rooted in the rule-breaking world of urban graffiti as it is in the elevated spheres of museum and gallery. Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo first wielded their spray cans (and spun their discs, and breakdanced with friends) in the São Paulo hip-hop scene of the 1980s and ’90s, drawing from that vibrant milieu the lesson that art is at its best, and most meaningful, when everyone is invited to the party.Combining historical and contemporary elements of Brazilian society with graffiti, hip-hop, and youth culture, OSGEMEOS: Endless Story extends an invitation into the artists’ expansive body of work, which embraces murals, paintings, sculpture, installations, and video, all using a symbolic visual language often inspired by dreams.Renowned for their spindly yellow characters—seen dancing, writing graffiti, interacting with their urban settings, and stretching high across buildings and train cars worldwide—OSGEMEOS creates works that invite readers into a surreal, chimerical world filled with motifs that signal access to another realm or the deep psyche. This fantasy world, which they call Tritrez, is the apex of their vision: a land of wonder that reflects the diverse nature of Brazil itself.OSGEMEOS: Endless Story, the artists’ first major English-language monograph, will be accompanied by their first US survey exhibition and their largest US show to date, on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, from May 2024 to July 2025. The book is given a third dimension through Hirshhorn Eye (Hi) technology: readers can activate, via smartphone, videos of the artists and the exhibition’s curators discussing the works in both book and show.

WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk PrizeWINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change.