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Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2020 On May 21, 2004, the world discovered the inhuman treatment of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in the pages of the Washington Post: on one of the pictures, a young woman holds a naked man who’s lying on the ground on a leash.
Sylvain Diaz
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Possible fictions: The testimony of applied performance with women in prisons in England and Brazil. [PDF]
, 2007 PhDThis thesis is based on a practice based research project with women in prison led by Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and myself. The project, Staging Human Rights II, took place in two prisons in England, HMP Highpoint and HMP and YOI Bullwood Hall, and ...
McAvinchey, Caoimhe
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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Casa come me. Villa Malaparte: storia di una metafora annunciata
Philosophy Kitchen, 2022 There are countless metaphors that have tried to solve villa Malaparte’s architecture in Capri. Designed by an architect, Adalberto Libera, and built by a man of letters, Curzio Malaparte, the architectural history of the villa remains a contentious ...
Mariacarla Molè
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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Teatrul albanez sub dictatură (Aspecte ale evoluției teatrului din Albania în perioada 1944-1990)
Symbolon, 2021 Albanian theatre under dictatorship (Aspects of the evolution of theatre in Albania during 1944-1990) The evolution of Albanian theatre between 1944 and 1990 mirrors the deformation and even unnatural extraction of Eastern societies’ conflicts from plays
Ardian Kycyku
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The Game’s the Thing: Politics and Play in Middleton’s A Game at Chess
Etudes Epistémè, 2021 Readings of Middleton’s A Game at Chess have tended to focus on its political and historical implications, viewing the chess game itself as an allegorical device that simply presents itself for decoding.
Supriya Chaudhuri
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty
History, EarlyView.Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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