Marginal Spaces And Cultures Of Dissent In Socialist Romania S Black Sea

Author : Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031357992

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Marginal Spaces and Cultures of Dissent in Socialist Romania's Black Sea by Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache Pdf

This book analyzes two Romanian villages – 2 Mai and Vama Veche – as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and everyday life. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it considers a broad range of sources, including official Communist Party documents, secret police files, personal memoirs, oral history interviews, ethnographic films, songs, and artistic performances. This book intertwines three narrative threads: that of the visitors (mainly members of the Romanian intelligentsia, young people, and hippies); that of the local inhabitants; and that of 'authority' (local and central state agents actively engaged in surveillance and supervision). In doing so, it interrogates the spectrum of consent/dissent and resistance/collaboration hitherto neglected in scholarship.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Dragoş Petrescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 9734506951

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Entangled Revolutions by Dragoş Petrescu Pdf

A comparative analysis of the 1989 regime changes in East-Central Europe from the perspective of transnational history and comparative politics.

Author : Witold Maciejewski
Publisher : Baltic University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Baltic Sea Region
ISBN : 9789197357982

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The Baltic Sea Region by Witold Maciejewski Pdf

Author : Guy R. Neave
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789231040405

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Knowledge, Power and Dissent by Guy R. Neave Pdf

This publication is based on the discussions of the 2004 Global Colloquium on Research and Higher Education Policy of the UNESCO Forum for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, held in Paris in December 2004. It contains contributions from 17 international experts in the field of higher education which explore the global rise of the 'knowledge society' and its implications for higher education and for sustainable human development in the future.

Author : Jukka Gronow,Sergey Zhuravlev
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789522227522

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Fashion Meets Socialism by Jukka Gronow,Sergey Zhuravlev Pdf

This book presents, above all, a study of the establishment and development of the Soviet organization and system of fashion industry and design as it gradually evolved in the years after the Second World War in the Soviet Union, which was, in the understanding of its leaders, reaching the mature or last stage of socialism when the country was firmly set on the straight trajectory to its final goal, Communism. What was typical of this complex and extensive system of fashion was that it was always loyally subservient to the principles of the planned socialist economy. This did not by any means indicate that everything the designers and other fashion professionals did was dictated entirely from above by the central planning agencies. Neither did it mean that their professional judgment would have been only secondary to ideological and political standards set by the Communist Party and the government of the Soviet Union. On the contrary, as our study shows, the Soviet fashion professionals had a lot of autonomy. They were eager and willing to exercise their own judgment in matters of taste and to set the agenda of beauty and style for Soviet citizens. The present book is the first comprehensive and systematic history of the development of fashion and fashion institutions in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Our study makes use of rich empirical and historical material that has been made available for the first time for scientific analysis and discussion. The main sources for our study came from the state, party and departmental archives of the former Soviet Union. We also make extensive use of oral history and the writings published in Soviet popular and professional press.

Author : Višnja Kisić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9062820697

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Governing Heritage Dissonance by Višnja Kisić Pdf

Research explores cultural policies and specific policy tools aimed at working with heritage dissonance and heritage related conflicts created for and implemented within the region of South East Europe (SEE) with the aim of contributing to reconciliation, mutual understanding and peace-building. The research analyses four distinctive cases which worked with heritage dissonance developed within and for the SEE region (the transnational nomination for UNESCO World Heritage List of Stećaks, medieval tombstones by the Ministries of Culture of Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina; the regional exhibition Imagining the Balkans: Identities and Memory in the Long 19th Century involving.

Author : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317260349

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Epistemologies of the South by Boaventura de Sousa Santos Pdf

This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.

Author : Bruce O'Neill
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373278

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The Space of Boredom by Bruce O'Neill Pdf

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom. Focusing on Bucharest, Romania, where the 2008 financial crisis compounded the failures of the postsocialist state to deliver on the promises of liberalism, O'Neill shows how the city's homeless are unable to fully participate in a society that is increasingly organized around practices of consumption. Without a job to work, a home to make, or money to spend, the homeless—who include pensioners abandoned by their families and the state—struggle daily with the slow deterioration of their lives. O'Neill moves between homeless shelters and squatter camps, black labor markets and transit stations, detailing the lives of men and women who manage boredom by seeking stimulation, from conversation and coffee to sex in public restrooms or going to the mall or IKEA. Showing how boredom correlates with the downward mobility of Bucharest's homeless, O'Neill theorizes boredom as an enduring affect of globalization in order to provide a foundation from which to rethink the politics of alienation and displacement.

Author : Raymond E. Zickel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Russia
ISBN : MINN:31951D003496134

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Soviet Union by Raymond E. Zickel Pdf

Author : Apor, Balázs,Apor, Péter,Horváth, Sándor
Publisher : Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789634161424

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The Handbook of COURAGE by Apor, Balázs,Apor, Péter,Horváth, Sándor Pdf

The COURAGE Handbook ushers its reader into the world of the compellingly rich heritage of cultural opposition in Eastern Europe. It is intended primarily to further a subtle understanding of the complex and multifaceted nature of cultural opposition and its legacy from the perspective of the various collections held in public institutions or by private individuals across the region. Through its focus on material heritage, the handbook provides new perspectives on the history of dissent and cultural non-conformism in the former socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. The volume is comprised of contributions by over 60 authors from a range of different academic and national backgrounds who share their insights into the topic. It offers focused discussions from comparative and transnational perspectives of the key themes and prevailing forms of opposition in the region, including non-conformist art, youth sub-cultures, intellectual dissent, religious groups, underground rock, avantgarde theater, exile, traditionalism, ethnic revivalism, censorship, and surveillance. The handbook provides its reader with a concise synthesis of the existing scholarship and suggests new avenues for further research.

Author : Madina Tlostanova
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822371278

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What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? by Madina Tlostanova Pdf

In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She interviews artists, art collectives, and writers such as Estonian artist Liina Siib, Uzbek artist Vyacheslav Akhunov, and Azerbaijani writer Afanassy Mamedov who frame the post-Soviet condition through the experience and expression of community, space, temporality, gender, and negotiating the demands of the state and the market. In foregrounding the unfolding aesthesis and activism in the post-Soviet space, Tlostanova emphasizes the important role that decolonial art plays in providing the foundation upon which to build new modes of thought and a decolonial future.

Author : Dominik Gutmeyr
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Black Sea Coast
ISBN : 9783643802866

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Europe and the Black Sea Region by Dominik Gutmeyr Pdf

When the scientific study of the Black Sea Region began in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, initially commissioned by adjacent powers such as the Habsburg and the Russian empires, this terra incognita was not yet considered part of Europe. The eighteen chapters of this volume show a broad range of thematic foci and theoretical approaches - the result of the enormous richness of the European macrocosm and the BSR. The microcosms of the many different case studies under scrutiny, however, demonstrate the historical dimension of exchange between the allegedly opposite poles of `East' and `West' and underscore the importance of mutual influences in the development of Europe and the BSR.

Author : J. E. Tunbridge,G. J. Ashworth
Publisher : *Belhaven Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015038433622

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Dissonant Heritage by J. E. Tunbridge,G. J. Ashworth Pdf

A lucid philosophical, theoretical, and practical guide to the creation of an authentic and realistic interpretation of heritage. Demonstrates how sensitivity and ethical approaches can be developed to present the actual history of concentration camps, atrocities, disease, death, and oppression without alienating the observer. Contains planning goals and advice to produce a thoughtful and sympathetic response and lasting understanding of the fate and consequences of real peoples and historic events.

Author : David Morley,Kevin Robins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134865307

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Spaces of Identity by David Morley,Kevin Robins Pdf

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.