Erin’s Acres

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-170
Author(s):  
Sinéad Moynihan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Land Grabbing ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter considers the extent to which the Returned Yank surfaces in narratives treating of land acquisition, distribution, ownership and development in Ireland in the second half of the twentieth century. It identifies two overlapping motifs in Returned Yank narratives that have been stated, restated and reworked in various historically-contingent ways from at least the 1930s, through the Lemassian turn, through the Celtic Tiger years: first, the extent to which the Returned Yank who returns to Ireland to buy property symbolises widespread ambivalence concerning the role of the post-independence Land Commission in Irish life; second, the degree to which narratives of land-purchasing (or ‘land-grabbing’) Returned Yanks become abstracted in the 1960s and beyond to the extent that s/he (usually he) comes to symbolise U.S. investment in Ireland more generally.

scholarly journals LA MUJER Y LA EDUCACIÓN DE LA PRIMERA INFANCIA EN LA ARGENTINA EN LA DÉCADA DE 1960

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Mónica Fernández Pais
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Master Gardener ◽  
Women In It ◽  
Women And Education ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Siglo Xx

En este artículo abordaremos algunas cuestiones relacionadas con la Educación Inicial y el protagonismo de las mujeres en la misma en los albores de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Nos interesa analizar cómo se constituye un modo de ser “maestra jardinera” y para ello debemos remontarnos a los aportes de los primeros pensadores que advertían sobre el lugar protagónico de la madre en la construcción de una sociedad nombrada como educada. Las prescripciones para ser mujer y madre parecen influir de modo decisivo en las representaciones acerca del ser “maestra jardinera".. MULHERES E EDUCAÇÃO DA PRIMEIRA INFÂNCIA NA ARGENTINA NA DÉCADA DE 1960 Neste artigo, abordaremos algumas questões relacionadas à Educação Infantil e o papel da mulher no início da segunda metade do século XX. Interessa-nos analisar como se constitui um modo de ser "jardineiro mestre" e, para isso, devemos voltar às contribuições dos primeiros pensadores que alertaram sobre o lugar protagônico da mãe na construção de uma sociedade denominada de educada. As prescrições de ser mulher e mãe parecem ter influência decisiva sobre as representações de ser professora dos mais jovens, registradas nas fontes primárias e testemunhos da história oral. Palavras-chave: Mulher; Professor de jardim de infância; Jardim de infância. WOMEN AND EDUCATION OF FIRST CHILDHOOD IN ARGENTINA IN THE 1960S Abstract: in this article we will address some issues related to Early Education and the role of women in it at the dawn of the second half of the twentieth century. We are interested in analyzing how a way of being "master gardener" is constituted and, for that, we must go back to the contributions of the first thinkers who warned about the protagonic place of the mother in the construction of a society named as educated. The prescriptions for being a woman and a mother seem to have a decisive influence on the representations about being a teacher of the youngest ones, as recorded in the primary sources and testimonies of oral history. Keywords: Woman; Kindergarten teacher; Kindergarten.

Radio, conflict and land grabbing in Sierra Leone: Communicating rights and preventing violence through drama

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-391
Author(s):  
Valentina Baú
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Land Grabbing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Entertainment Education ◽  
Radio Drama ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Rural Farmers ◽  
The One

With a focus on entertainment education, this article sheds light on the effects of radio drama in addressing conflict over land governance. The discussion is built around the broadcast of Bush Wahala radio series during the recent land acquisition process that has taken place in Sierra Leone. Through the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted by the author with rural farmers affected by this issue, on the one hand, this work generates reflections on the role of radio drama in providing listeners with alternative options to the use of violence and confrontation with the authorities in order to claim land rights; on the other hand, it represents an important contribution to the literature of edutainment in contexts of conflict, with a specific focus on the increasingly complex issue of land grabbing in the developing world.

The Studio

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Patrick Bell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Beach Boys ◽  
The 1960S

Chapter 2 discusses the role of the producer, the concept of instrumentality, and how the recording studio has come to be conceptualized as an instrument since the mid-twentieth century. As exemplified by the practices of producers in the 1950s (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) and the 1960s (Phil Spector, the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, and Motown’s Berry Gordy), early iterations of the studio as musical instrument entailed a collaborative process of working with musicians and studio personnel. In the early 1970s playing the studio as musical instrument took on a new meaning in the hands of Jamaican dub producers like King Tubby, who forewent working with musicians in the studio and instead reimagined and remixed prerecorded tracks by playing the equipment of the studio. This approach was furthered by hip-hop producers in New York, notably the Bomb Squad, who incorporated the sampler into their studio-playing practices. Finally, a glimpse into the practices of Max Martin demonstrates that in contemporary music production DAWs are the de facto instrument.

RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AFRICA: THREE STUDIES ON NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
Mohammed Bashir Salau
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
University Centers ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Role Of Religion

Until the second half of the twentieth century, the role of religion in Africa was profoundly neglected. There were no university centers devoted to the study of religion in Africa; there was only a handful of scholars who focused primarily on religious studies and most of them were not historians; and there were relatively few serious empirical studies on Christianity, Islam, and African traditional religions. This paucity of rigorous research began to be remedied in the 1960s and by the last decade of the twentieth century, the body of literature on religion in Africa had expanded significantly. The burgeoning research and serious coverage of the role of religion in African societies has initially drawn great impetus from university centers located in the West and in various parts of Africa that were committed to demonstrating that Africa has a rich history even before European contact. Accordingly scholars associated with such university centers have since the 1960s acquired and systematically catalogued private religious manuscripts and written numerous pan-African, regional, national, and local studies on diverse topics including spirit mediumship, witchcraft, African systems of thought, African evangelists and catechists, Mahdism, Pentecostalism, slavery, conversion, African religious diasporas and their impact on host societies, and religion and politics. Although the three works under review here deal with the role of religion in an African context, they mainly contribute to addressing three major questions in the study of religion and politics: How do Islam and other religious orientations shape public support for democracy? What is the primary cause of conflict or religious violence? What strategies should be employed to resolve such conflicts and violence?

scholarly journals Moralities of Consumption in Poland across the Short Twentieth Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (02) ◽  
pp. 393-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Mazurek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Deep Crisis

Participating in the broader history of consumer mobilization for egalitarian regimes of consumption, this article unpacks the shifting meanings of egalitarian moralities of consumption in the specific case of Poland across the twentieth century. It reveals how important the role of social justice would become in attempts to impose state-centered social welfare over profit-oriented self-welfare between the interwar period and the demise of Communism. During this time, the meaning of profiteering changed significantly. While food conflicts during the interwar period and World War II were organized predominantly along ethnic lines, by the beginning of the postwar era, the notion of the profit-oriented middleman relied on the category of class as well as ethnicity to support a vision of Poland as a Communist, ethnically homogenized nation-state. In the 1950s and the 1960s, anti-profiteering rhetoric became increasingly gendered, as the food conflicts moved from an ideological crusade against private trade to everyday confrontations between the consumers and female shop assistants. When the Soviet Bloc ran into deep crisis in the 1970s and 1980s, self-welfare and family-centered resourcefulness resurfaced as legitimate norms of distributive justice, which contributed to dismantling the Socialist welfare state altogether.

Militant Emotions in Reina Roffé’s Monte de Venus

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Erika Bondi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Emotions In Literature ◽  
Militant Groups ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Reina Roffe

This article analyses the role of emotions in the formation of militant groups as represented in the novel Monte de Venus (1976) by Reina Roffé. It draws comparisons between the novel’s backdrop of Argentina’s militant movements of the 1960s and ’70s and the actual militancy in the country from that time period. This approach to emotions in literature focuses on the fictionalisation of character emotions and its role in the production of the overall tone of the novel. An important aspect of the study is the genre of the militant literature in Argentina in the mid-twentieth century and its aesthetic and ideological norms.

The Soul of the American University Revisited

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
George M. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
First Century ◽  
American University ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
American Schools ◽  
Normative Standard ◽  
The 1960S

The Soul of the American University Revisited traces the role of Protestantism in shaping American higher education from the founding of Harvard in the 1630s to the present. It offers a critical analysis of the changing ways in which Protestantism intersected with collegiate life, intellectual inquiry, and broader cultural developments. In accounts that have been edited and somewhat abridged for this second edition, it looks at pace-setting colleges and universities as they coped with modern society, post-Darwinian science, new secular philosophies, and increasing diversity in American life. Until the mid-twentieth century most leading American schools remained nominally Protestant, but their Protestantism was typically of a liberal variety that emphasized the broad ethical ideals of the Western and Judeo-Christian heritage. After the attacks in the 1960s on the “WASP” privilege, the vestiges of that establishment in higher education were soon largely dismantled. By the late twentieth century exclusive secular viewpoints were often considered the normative standard in higher education. Originally published in 1994 as The Soul of the American University, this new edition carries the story into the twenty-first-century culture. In the disarray and diversity of the intellectual life of this arguably “postsecular” age there is increasing room in the academy for varieties of intellectually responsible religious viewpoints. Indeed, as a concluding chapter recounts, more traditionalist Christian scholars and institutions, Protestant as well as Catholic, have developed substantially in recent decades.

scholarly journals The Repertoire and Interpretative Dynamics of Shakespeare’s Dramaturgy in the Twentieth-Century Lithuanian Theatre

Menotyra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramunė Marcinkevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Independent State ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
The 1960S

The repertoire and interpretative dynamics of Shakespeare’s dramaturgy in the twentieth-century Lithuanian theatre have shown that despite the fact that the first premiere on a professional theatre stage in Lithuanian took place only in 1924 (Othello), the main European tendencies of the playwright’s directorial narrative (from Romantic rhetoric and retrospectivism to deconstruction or postcolonial practices) were repeated over the course of the century. The author of the article observes that the general turn towards Shakespeare by many Lithuanian theatre artists, not just one director or repertory theatre, reflects and connects various phenomena of major social changes and new beginnings: the creation of an independent state and a professional national theatre in the interwar period; the creation of a more modern theatre and a more relaxed society during the thaw of the 1960s in the wake of the Stalinist regime and its terror; the transformation of the role of theatre in society in the 1990s following the restoration of the country’s independence; the challenges brought about by the new century and the changing generations of artists. This hypothetical parallel between changes in history and in the theatrical discourses distinguishes Shakespeare as a prominent factor of theatre development and puts the Lithuanian professional theatre in the context of the traditions of European Shakespearean theatre repertory choices formed throughout the centuries.

Studying Modern Arabic Literature

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Face ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Modern Arabic

This book is devoted to the life and academic legacy of Mustafa Badawi who transformed the study of modern Arabic literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Prior to the 1960s the study of Arabic literature, both classical and modern, had barely been emancipated from the academic approaches of orientalism. The appointment of Badawi as Oxford University's first lecturer in modern Arabic literature changed the face of this subject as Badawi showed, through his teaching and research, that Arabic literature was making vibrant contributions to global culture and thought. Part biography, part collection of critical essays, this book celebrates Badawi's immense contribution to the field and explores his role as a public intellectual in the Arab world and the west.

Short Films from a Small Nation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Public Information ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Art And Architecture

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.The book combines close textual analysis of a broad range of films with detailed accounts of their commissioning, production, distribution and reception in Denmark and abroad, drawing on Actor-Network Theory to emphasise the role of a wide range of entities in these processes. It considers a broad range of genres and sub-genres, including industrial process films, public information films, art films, the city symphony, the essay film, and many more. It also maps international networks of informational and documentary films in the post-war period, and explores the role of informational film in Danish cultural and political history.

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