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Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to politicaltheory

"Why is the US far right finding its savior in Spanish dictator Francisco Franco?" by Jason Wilson (#TheGuardian)

"Some US far-right figures have made renewed attempts to rehabilitate the 20th century Spanish dictator Gen Francisco Franco in recent months, praising him as an avatar of religious authoritarianism, and praising his actions during and after the Spanish civil war as a model for confronting the left in the US."

"The critics of this flurry of neo-Francoism say that the real target of this revisionism is domestic attitudes to US democracy."

"For Faber, parts of the the American right are captured by “the dream of order, where social order is more important than democracy, and democracy is a threat to social order”."

#Spain #USA #FranciscoFranco #US #FarRight #MAGA #Politics #Political #History

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/15/us-far-right-francisco-franco-spanish-civil-war

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to anthropology

WHITE SIGHT. Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness by Nicholas Mirzoeff (The MIT Press, 2023).

"White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but also by visual culture and distinctive ways of seeing. Nicholas Mirzoeff argues that this form of “white sight” has a history. By understanding that white sight was not always common practice, we can devise better ways to dismantle it. Spanning centuries across this wide-ranging text, Mirzoeff connects Renaissance innovations—from the invention of perspective and the erection of Apollo statues as monuments to (white) beauty and power to the rise of racial capitalism dependent on slave labor—with ever-expanding surveillance technologies to show that white sight creates an oppressively racializing world, in which subjects who do not appear as white are under constant threat of violence".

#Image #Politics #Political #Aesthetics #History

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https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047678/white-sight/

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to anthropology

"Dark MAGA: The Latest Cycle in the Far-Right Aesthetics Laundromat" by Tim Squirrell (2022).

"Many people reading about the latest development in right-wing extremist aesthetics might think little of it or find it laughable – after all, Dark MAGA attempts to make a septuagenarian former President look cool and edgy. The problem with this reaction is that it both writes off the movement as fundamentally unserious – which it is not – and allows for further amplification by journalists and others who cover Dark MAGA as light news."

#MAGA #DarkMAGA #Trump #FarRight #Aesthetics #Politics #USA #Communication #Internet

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https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/dark-maga-the-latest-cycle-in-the-far-right-aesthetics-laundromat/

serenissimaj, 6 months ago to random

Can anyone share a reference (any discipline) to a definition or use of 'politics' / 'political' in the non-technical/metaphorical sense (i.e., not about government) to refer to ideological (or other?) underpinnings?

Eg. 'the decision to sack them was political'.

What does 'political' mean here?

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to anthropology

The construction of political power has always implied the need to generate a continuous flow of artefacts and actions. This matter is brilliantly analysed by Burke in The Fabrication of Louis XIV (1992). The construction of the king’s public image, linked to a sacred dimension, was the result of an unceasing collective production by painters, sculptors, engravers, poets, choreographers, masters of ceremonies, musicians, architects and tailors, among many others (all of them coordinated in a complex system organised by several ministers).

#LouisXIV #France #PeterBurke #History #Politics #Art #Power #Image #CulturalHeritage

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https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300059434/the-fabrication-of-louis-xiv/

INTERNET ARCHIVE: https://archive.org/details/fabricationoflou0000burk

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to anthropology

"A Theory of Cultural Heritage. Beyond The Intangible" by Salvador Muñoz-Viñas (Routledge, 2023).

If you are interested in having an overview of what it is and how to define what we call "cultural heritage", I recommend this book by my colleague Salvador Muñoz Viñas.

#Heritage #CulturalHeritage #MuñozViñas #Routledge #Book #Libraries

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Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to politicaltheory

"REALITY LOST. Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation" by Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard (Springer Open, 2019)

#Books #Libraries #Misinformation #Reality #Manipulation #OpenAccess #Sociology #Politics

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to anthropology

"Museums, Heritage, Culture: Into the Conflict Zone" by Kavita Singh (2015).

"But think for a moment of the history of museums. Think of the way their collections have been built, and the purposes they have served. Think of the violent encounters that often lay behind the collecting of curiosities in the age of exploration; or think of the museums built by missionaries to display pagan gods wrenched away from natives. Think of the vast collections built (and the ways these were built) during the age of colonialism, with entire monuments transported across the seas and re-erected in museum galleries. Think of the nations transformed by revolutions, where treasures were violently wrested away from the church and presented as desacralized avatars in museums".

#KavitaSingh #Museum #Heritage #CulturalHeritage #Culture #Colonialism #Conflict #Book

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https://www.academia.edu/15989299/Museums_Heritage_Culture_Into_the_Conflict_Zone

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to anthropology

MIT Press: Open Acces Books

#MitPress #Book #Libraries #OpenAccess

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https://mitpress.mit.edu/open-access-at-mit-press/books/

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to anthropology

LIQUIDBOOKS

"Culture Machine Liquid Books is a series of experimental digital ‘books’ published under the (gratis/libre) conditions of both open editing and free content. As such, you are free to compose, rewrite, edit, annotate, translate, tag, add to, remix, reformat, reinvent and reuse any of the books in the series, or produce parallel versions of them - and what's more you are expressly invited and encouraged to do so. (We would appreciate it if you would tell us about it if you do so away from this site.)"

#LiquidBooks #Book #Libraries #OpenAccess #OpenHumanities #Culture

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http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/11135951/FrontPage

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/liquid-and-living-books/

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to archaedons

"Bombing of Gaza has damaged or destroyed more than 100 heritage sites, NGO report reveals" by Sarvy Geranpayeh (The Art Newspaper).

"The human cost of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip in the war with Israel is well documented. What is less well known is how many historic buildings and sites have also been destroyed."

"Several of Gaza’s museums have also been destroyed or damaged. Rafah Museum, located in southern Gaza, published two videos on its Facebook page showing that the building has partially collapsed. Yasin says Palestinian officials have also received reports of significant damage caused to Al Qarara Cultural Museum and Deir Al Balah museum."

#Gaza #War #Palestine #Israel #CulturalHeritage #Heritage #TheArtNewspaper #Architecture #Museum

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https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/11/28/bombing-of-gaza-has-damaged-or-destroyed-more-than-100-heritage-sites-ngo-report-reveals

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to archaedons

THE INVENTION OF ART: A CULTURAL HISTORY by L.E. Shiner (2001).

A classic book to understand how the concept of "Art" arises and develops.

#Art #Book #Culture #History

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INTERNET ARCHIVE: https://archive.org/details/inventionofartcu0000shin_r0w1/mode/2up

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to politicaltheory

"NARRATING HERITAGE. Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance" by Veysel Apaydin (Bloomsbury, 2023).

"Drawing on over ten years of research and ethnographic fieldwork based on six complex case studies from Turkey and comparing them with case studies from across the world, the book explores a variety of social, political, cultural and economic heritage discourses, making explicit the relationship between cultural and natural heritage. This book expands on these discourses by examining the role of violence in heritage, expanding on the concepts of both direct and slow violence. It situates heritage discourse within the sphere of human rights and lays out redistribution, recognition and representation as dimensions of social justice in a heritage context."

#Bloomsbury #CulturalHeritage #VeyselApaydin #Anthropology #Violence

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https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/narrating-heritage-9781350334632/

Barros_heritage, 6 months ago to anthropology

HOW TO START A CULT

If you search for this phrase or "how to start a religion" in Google, 670 million results are shown in the first case and more than 3 billion in the second case. On Amazon there are several books with these or similar titles such as (surprisingly) "How to Build a God in Your Garage". Some websites (with more or less seriousness) try to explain step by step how to create your sect or community of beliefs.

Por ejemplo, el artículo de Claire J. Harris "How to Start a Cult in 5 Easy Steps. You can totally do this at home": https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-start-a-cult-in-5-easy-steps-22beab4d7be5

Or the text by Stephen Mason: "How to Start a Cult. Become a god by starting your very own religion". https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/look-it-way/200906/how-start-cult

Each text on this subject has its own approach: ironic, search for economic success, creation of a community, personal empowerment, etc.

What conclusions can be drawn from all this?

#Sociology #Anthropology #Religion #Cults

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Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to anthropology

"The Uncomfortable Oxford, the tour that tells the dark side of the University" by María Ramírez (eldiario.es; Spanish)

"The tours have been so successful that the group started with one, but now offers several in Oxford, Cambridge and York as well as lectures and other courses. In pandemic, the tours continued virtually, and now the not-for-profit enterprise is sustainable.

Durand comments that the success of his tours reveals "a clear appetite for complex and nuanced discussions of the past and cultural heritage." He believes that history education, heritage and tourism are three sectors that can be brought together in the public space in a fruitful way".

#History #Heritage #ContestedHeritage #CulturalHeritage #NegativeHeritage #Oxford #UK #University

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https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/oxford-incomodo-tour-cuenta-lado-oscuro-universidad_1_10701343.html

Uncomfortable Oxford Walking Tours: https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com/

Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to anthropology

Society can be understood as something that only exists as long as actions are performed, as long as processes take place, as long as we all contribute in some way to its ephemeral construction.

"Social organization is messy and refractory, a shambles rather than a crystal […]. There is no tidy atom and no clear-cut world, only complex striations and long strings that reptate as in a polymer goo" (White, H.C. (2008), Identity and control, Princeton, Princeton University Press, p. 18).

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#Sociology #Society #Identity #Control #Performance

fictionable, 7 months ago to bookstodon

… we've checked and it's definitely #Friday In fact, for those who celebrate, it's #BlackFriday

So let's do it again: tell us three #books you've enjoyed recently and we'll see if we can come up with something else you might like.

Who knows? You might even be able to find it in a #library

#BookRecommendations #reading #writing #bookstodon @bookstodon

Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to bookstodon

THE PERIPHERAL (William Gibson, 2014; Spanish edition 2017).

First novel of the trilogy (not yet finished) the Jackpot. In 2020 the second novel, "Agency" was published (I am reading it now). I haven't seen the Amazon Prime version and I'm not sure I'm going to see it. The reason is that I don't think it can live up to the novel. Perhaps one of the best novels translating today's complex reality (past, present, fact, fiction, economics, politics...).

#WilliamGibson #ThePeripheral #Novel #Bookstodon #Book #Libraries #ScienceFiction #SciFi

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Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to digitalhumanities

THE PRIZE PAPERS

"Thousands of records documenting daily lives around the globe in the time of the European Expansion, Colonialism, and Resistance."

"The aim of the German-British Prize Papers Project is the complete digitization and sorting of the Prize Papers including the preservation of the collection’s material, the initial and in-depth cataloguing, the creation of research-oriented metadata and finally the presentation of the digital copies and the metadata in an open access research database. The portal development reflects our continuous engagement with developments in the field of Digital Humanities. We also pursue various research projects, and we cooperate with numerous international researchers and research institutions working on the Prize Papers and in project-related areas."

#ThePrizePapers #Europe #History #OpenAccess #Archives #Digitization

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https://www.prizepapers.de/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/23/your-wife-wants-to-see-you-letters-seized-by-18th-century-privateers-opened-for-first-time

Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to culturalheritage

Heritage Dynamics. Understanding and adapting to change in diverse heritage contexts by Kalliopi Fouseki (UCL Press, 2022). #OpenAccess

"Kalliopi Fouseki develops a theoretical and methodological framework of ‘heritage dynamics’, which is used as the analytical thread of six heritage contexts: heritage-led transformation in historic urban places; decision-making on energy efficiency and heritage conservation in ‘everyday heritage’ residential buildings; lifecycles of heritage collections; exhibition dynamics and the impact of participation with emphasis of ‘difficult heritage’; dynamics of dissonance on contested museums and the dynamics of ‘intangible heritage’ with emphasis on flamenco."

#CulturalHeritage #UCLPress #Museum #ContestedHeritage #IntangibleHeritage

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https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access/products/155755

Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to sociology

"The Most Important Network of Art Institutions that You’ve Never Heard of" by Jason Waite (ArtReview).

"Arts Collaboratory is a network of 25 art spaces, mainly from the Global South, including Raw Material Company, Dakar; Kunci, Yogyakarta; Lugar a dudas, Cali; Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; ruangrupa, Jakarta; and Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, Mexico City, among others. It started in 2007 as more of a traditional art network like the long-running Triangle Network, begun in 1982 and with partnerships in 40 countries, only with the difference that its initiators, the Dutch NGOs DOEN Foundation and Hivos and the publicly funded Mondriaan Fund, provided financial support for the art institutions while wanting to ease bureaucracy for their grantees, provide a platform for them to exchange knowledge and foster South-South art institutional connections."

#ArtReview #Art #ArtWorld #Museum #Creativity

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https://artreview.com/arts-collaboratory-the-most-important-network-of-art-institutions-that-youve-never-heard-of/

Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to bookstodon

BINTI (2015; Spanish edition 2018)

I have read Nnedi Okorafor's novella, Binti, and I found it wonderful (as well as very entertaining). Also, with a witty reflection on the decolonization of museums.

#ScienceFiction #NnediOkorafor #Book #Libraries #SciFi #Novel #Museum #Africa #Decolonization #Bookstodon

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Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to anthropology

"Robert E Lee statue that sparked Charlottesville riot is melted down: ‘Like his face was crying’" by Nora Neus (The Guardian).

"The melting was the culmination of a years-long effort to remove the Confederate statue from downtown Charlottesville. The issue became a flashpoint in 2016, and sparked a deadly white nationalist riot a year later, in 2017, which resulted in the death of the counter-protester Heather Heyer and two police officers, whose helicopter crashed.
After a series of lawsuits, the statue was finally removed in 2021 to much fanfare. It had been sitting in a warehouse in an undisclosed location until even more lawsuits made their way through the justice system. Then, on 26 September this year, the final lawsuit ended. The statue could be melted down."

#Monuments #RobertELee #Charlottesville #SwordsIntoPlowshares

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/26/charlottesville-robert-e-lee-melted-confederate-statue

Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to politicalscience

Graeber, David; Wengrow, David. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

I have already finished reading this long and powerful book. Now I have to meditate on the ideas it brings...

"Over the course of these chapters we have instead talked about basic forms of social liberty which one might actually put into practice: (1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings; (2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and (3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones."

#Anthropology #History #Graeber #Wengrow #Archaeology #Politics #PoliticalTheory #Society

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Barros_heritage, 7 months ago to politicalscience

Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

"The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (formerly
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology) is a growing teaching and learning
resource. Its goal is to facilitate access to scholarship in Social Anthropology
for experts and non-experts worldwide. All entries are written and peer-reviewed
by leading academics."

#Anthropology #Religion #Economics #Politics #Open

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https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/

lisabortolotti, 7 months ago to philosophy

"The idea that the presence of a #delusion signals that there is something wrong with the person reporting it is not only a dangerous over-simplification, but it can also prevent us from exchanging ideas productively with people who have different worldviews and values in a number of different contexts." Here is a precis of my book, Why Delusions Matter (Bloomsbury 2023) https://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/207919793/Understanding_delusions_to_improve_mutual_interactions.pdf @philosophy @psychology

Barros_heritage, 8 months ago to culturalheritage

"The Identity Politics of Heritage.
Decommunization, Decolonization, and Derussification of Kyiv Monuments after Russia’s Full Scale Invasion of Ukraine" by Olena Betlii (2022).

"Russia’s war against Ukraine has shown not only how the Kremlin has weaponized history, but also how the victim can fight back by breaking historical ties with the aggressor. Since March 2022, Ukraine has been developing new identity politics of heritage. The article focuses on decisions made by the Kyiv City Council, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, and the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory regarding material objects associated with Russian or Soviet heritage. It also shows how Kyiv opinionmakers and experts have reacted to changes that will eventually result in the reshaping of the city’s memory landscape".

#CulturalHeritage #Russia #Ukraine #History #Identity #Politics #Monuments #FreeAccess

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https://brill.com/view/journals/joah/4/1-2/article-p149_11.xml?language=en

Barros_heritage, 8 months ago to anthropology

HERITAGE, THE POWER OF THE PAST, AND THE POLITICS OF (MIS)RECOGNITION by Laurajane Smith (2022).

"Heritage is a political resource; no matter how this concept is defined, “heritage” is charged with representing individual and group identity, sense of place and belonging".

"This paper will illustrate how heritage and museum visiting, as a leisure activity, facilitates or impedes recognition and redistribution in direct and indirect ways. Drawing on extensive qualitative interviews with visitors to 45 heritage sites and museums in the USA, Australia, and England, the paper demonstrates the importance of emotions in mundane struggles over recognition and misrecognition. How emotions uphold or challenge investments in heritage narratives are examined."

#LaurajaneSmith #Heritage #Past #Politics #Emotion #Museum #OpenAccess #Sociology

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https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12353

Barros_heritage, 8 months ago to culturalheritage

CONTESTED HERITAGE
IN CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES (2021).

An interesting document to see how the problem of contested heritage is addressed by the Church of England (with its limitations and contradictions).

#CulturalHeritage #Religion #ChurchOfEngland #UK #ContestedHeritage #NegativeHeritage #Architecture

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https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/Contested_Heritage_in_Cathedrals_and_Churches.pdf

Barros_heritage, 8 months ago to anthropology

DIGITAL ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS
CREATING ONLINE ACCESS TO CULTURAL HERITAGE by Katja Müller (2021) (Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license).

"Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination. It also sheds light on born-digital, community-based archives, which have established themselves as new actors in the field".

#Book #Libraries #CulturalHeritage #Archives #Collection #Museum #Anthropology #DigitalArchives #OpenAccess #Documentation

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https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MuellerDigital

Barros_heritage, 9 months ago to academicchatter

WHAT IS ALVEUS XR?

"Alveus XR is the first online repository of historically themed 3D models. We incorporate collections of high-quality scientific virtual reconstructions to facilitate the disclosure of the past, and we enable 3D design professionals to use rigorous historical assets in their reconstructions, video games, or animated films.

Our historical objects (or assets) are organized into civilizations and these, in turn, are subdivided into collections. Each collection of assets refers to a specific cultural context (the Roman port; the Renaissance winery; etc.) and they organize the different 3D historical objects from our collection. These collections are not closed sets but rather groups of objects that will grow progressively as new pieces are added."

#History #Archaeology #Photogrammetry #3D #Spain #RomanEmpire #Renaissance #AlveusXR

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https://alveusxr.com/en/home/

Barros_heritage, 9 months ago to culturalheritage

Venice to start charging visitors entry fee next year (Reuters).

"Venice plans to experiment with an admission fee of 5 euros($5.35) for day trippers next year to try to manage the flow of tourists drawn to its historic canals, the city council said on Tuesday.

The fee will be applied on a trial basis on 30 days next year, focusing mainly on spring bank holidays and summer weekends when tourism numbers are at their peak. All visitors over the age of 14 will have to pay it.

The aim was to find "a new balance between the rights of those who live, study or work in Venice and those who visit the city," Venice tourism councillor Simone Venturini said."

#Venice #Venezia #Tourism #Cities #Heritage #Italy #Reuters

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/venice-start-charging-visitors-entry-fee-next-year-2023-09-05/

Barros_heritage, 9 months ago to culturalheritage

3D RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN CULTURAL HERITAGE III by Marinos Ioannides and Petros Patias (editors, Springer, 2023).

An interesting #OpenAccess #Book containing an article of the Antikythera Mechanism.

"This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. Explores 3D technologies used in the domain of cultural heritage. Originates from a unique study on 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage. Study launched by the European Commission."

#3D #Heritage #CulturalHeritage #Bookstodon #Libraries #Digitisation #Antikythera #EuropeanCommission

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-35593-6

Barros_heritage, 9 months ago to culturalheritage

THEFTS EXPOSE BRITISH MUSEUM’S ‘RIDICULOUS’ STANCE ON RETURN OF ARTEFACTS, SAYS MP by David Batty and Mark Brown

"Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Afrikan reparations, believes the 1963 law preventing the return of objects such as the Parthenon marbles and the Benin bronzes should be changed.

The museum has been at the centre of an escalating storm that on Friday led to the resignation of its director, Hartwig Fischer. It followed the revelation that as many as 2,000 items from the museum collection had been found to be “missing, stolen or damaged” and that police were investigating."

#BritishMuseum #Restitution #TheGuardian #UK #Heritage #CulturalHeritage

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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/27/thefts-expose-british-museums-ridiculous-stance-on-return-of-artefacts-says-mp

👉 An interesting point of view from Dan Hicks (curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum): "'The last remaining argument against restitution has now been lost'

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/29/the-last-remaining-argument-against-restitution-has-now-been-lost

Barros_heritage, 10 months ago to archaeodons

PHILADELPHIA’S MÜTTER MUSEUM IS REVIEWING ITS COLLECTION OF HUMAN REMAINS. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS FOR DISABILITY REPRESENTATION by Riva Lehrer (Art in America, 2023).

"The Mütter joins medical and natural history museums around the world who are debating the ethical treatment of human remains. There is the question of provenance: at the Mütter, some specimens may have been accepted into the collection under dubious or outright unethical circumstances. Mütter curator Anna Dhoty has written about one unclear holding. Other provenance issues have recently been resolved after decades of negotiation. And in some instances, there is virtually no paper trail at all.

All this gets at a deeper, more troubling question: can it ever be ethical to own, or exhibit, someone else’s body? And if so, how should those bodies be displayed?"

#Museum #Heritage #Philadelphia #Mutter #HumanRemains #Disability

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https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/mutter-museum-op-ed-riva-lehrer-disability-1234671870/

Barros_heritage, 10 months ago to histodons

➡️ HITLER’S BIRTH HOUSE IN AUSTRIA TO BE TURNED INTO POLICE STATION (The Guardian, August 2023).

"Critics say controversial plans will fulfil dictator’s wish for building to become district authority offices".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/22/hitlers-birth-house-in-austria-to-be-turned-into-police-station

➡️ THIS OLD HOUSE: AUSTRIA TORN OVER WHAT TO DO WITH HITLER’S BIRTHPLACE (Politico, September 2020)

"Earlier this summer, the Austrian interior ministry released the winning architectural design for the site […]. The ultimate goal of these changes is to “neutralize” the history and symbolism of the house, officials said, preventing it from serving as a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis in the future."

https://www.politico.eu/article/this-old-house-austria-torn-over-what-to-do-with-hitlers-birthplace/

➡️ A LONG LEGAL BATTLE OVER HITLER'S BIRTH HOME IN AUSTRIA ENDS (NPR; August 2019)

"For generations, Gerlinde Pommer's family has owned the yellow, three-story structure in Braunau am Inn".

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/06/748588026/a-long-legal-battle-over-hitlers-birth-home-in-austria-ends

#NegativeHeritage #Hitler #Nazi #History #Heritage

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Barros_heritage, 10 months ago to libraries

OPEN ACCESS BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE CONGRESS.

Over 7400 books available.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/open-access-books?loclr=blogsig

For example, "Exhibiting atrocity : memorial museums and the politics of past violence" by Amy Sodaro (Rutgers University Press, 2018).

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018024519/

#Libraries #Books #Bookstodon #OpenAccess

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Barros_heritage, 10 months ago to sociology

I admit that football doesn't interest me much. However, the victory of the Spanish team in the FIFA Women's World Cup has been an exciting experience, because of the importance it has had in the vindication of the importance of women in professional sport and, in general, in the defence of women's rights in Spain. No matter how much progress has been made, all rights are always under threat.

On this event, I really liked these comments (in Spanish) from Amnesty International Spain: "Lessons we have learned (or not) from the Women's World Cup".

1. First thing we haven't learned: to use language in a correct and inclusive way.

2. Second thing we haven't learned: that only yes is yes.

3. Third thing we haven't learned: to give the protagonists the limelight.

4. The things we have learnt: equality, diversity, respect.

#Spain #FIFA #WWC #Football #Women #Sports #HumanRights #Equality #Diversity

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https://www.es.amnesty.org/en-que-estamos/blog/historia/articulo/lecciones-que-hemos-aprendido-del-mundial-de-futbol-femenino/

Barros_heritage, 10 months ago to culturalheritage

FICTIONAL AND FICTIONALISED RELIGIONS AS HERITAGE? REFLECTIONS ON THE OBJECT OF CRITICAL HERITAGE STUDIES by Mathilde van Dijk (International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2023).

#OpenAccess

"Heritage discourses and fictional narratives are not as far from each other as seems obvious. Rather, they operate on a sliding scale. Fans of certain media, whether they become adherents of a fiction-based religion or whether the fictions are meaningful to them in another way, visit the sites in which their favourite series or film were shot, use phrases from their favourite films or series, attend role-playing events and so on and so forth. Some fans do this individually; others gather in communities, on the internet, physically or both. Their favourite fictions become a building block of their identities".

#Religion #Fiction #Heritage #CulturalHeritage #HeritageStudies #Article #CHS

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13527258.2023.2212003

Barros_heritage, 10 months ago to libraries

IFLA/SYSTEMATIC PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023.

This was the shortlist for the Public Library of the Year Award 2023. The winner was the Spanish library in Barcelona.

-Public Library Janez Vajkard Valvasor Krško (Slovenia)

-Parramatta Library (Australia)

-Shanghai Library East (China)

➡️ Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez (Spain) 🏆🎉🥳

#Libraries #Bookstodon #IFLA #Spain #Barcelona

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https://www.ifla.org/ifla-systematic-public-library-of-the-year/

https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/biblioteques/es/bibgarciamarquez

https://www.publico.es/videos/1067289/la-biblioteca-gabriel-garcia-marquez-de-barcelona-declarada-la-mejor-biblioteca-publica-del-mundo

Barros_heritage, 10 months ago to anthropology

REVEALING THE SMITHSONIAN’S ‘RACIAL BRAIN COLLECTION’ by Nicole Dungca and
Claire Healy (The Washington Post, free access).

A must-read text of horror and racism.

"Nearly 100 years later, Sara’s brain is still housed by the institution, wrapped in muslin and immersed in preservatives in a large metal container. It is stored in a museum facility in Maryland with 254 other brains, amassed mostly in the first half of the 20th century. Almost all of them were gathered at the behest of Hrdlicka, a prominent anthropologist who believed that White people were superior and collected body parts to further now-debunked theories about anatomical differences between races."

"Most of the brains were removed upon death from Black and Indigenous people and other people of color."

#Smithsonian #Museum #Racism

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/smithsonian-brains-collection-racial-history-repatriation/

More information on the subject:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/takeaways-smithsonian-human-brains-remains-collection/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/the-collection-investigation-video-smithsonian-remains/

Barros_heritage, 10 months ago to sociology

Transgression is an essential concept for understanding many of today's political dynamics.

POPULISM AS A TRANSGRESSIVE STYLE by Théo Aiolfi (2022).

"As a consequence of its performative turn, the critical literature on populism has dedicated increasing attention to its sociocultural and stylistic features. Among the most prominent concepts underpinning this approach is the notion that populism relies on the “flaunting of the low” or the use of “bad manners.” This article engages in an extensive discussion of the way this concept is used in the literature and showcases its main limitations. In replacement, I then suggest the alternative concept of transgression, understood as the violation of a norm, which has the substantial advantages of being more flexible and versatile as well as less reliant on a normative binary".

#OpenAccess #Article #Populism #Transgression #Political #Politics

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https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article/2/1/ksac006/6546411