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Book Peace Photography

Download or read book Peace Photography written by Frank Möller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study thinks with photography about peace. It asks how photography can represent peace, and how such representation can contribute to peace. The book offers an original critique of the almost exclusive focus on violence in recent work on visual culture and presents a completely new research agenda within the overall framework of visual peace research. Critically engaging with both photojournalism and art photography in light of peace theories, it looks for visual representations or anticipations of peace – peace or peace as a potentiality – in the work of selected photographers including Robert Capa and Richard Mosse, thus reinterpreting photography from the Spanish Civil War to current anti-migration politics in Europe. The book argues that peace photography is episodic, culturally specific, process-oriented and considerate of both the past and the future.

Book Peace

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  • Author : Ken Kolsbun
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781426202940
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Peace written by Ken Kolsbun and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kolsbun tells the surprising story of the peace sign in words and pictures, from its origins in the nuclear disarmament efforts of the late 1950s to its adoption by the antiwar movement of the 1960s, through its stint as a mass-marketed commodity and its enduring relevance now.

Book I Dream of Peace

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  • Author : Maurice Sendak
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book I Dream of Peace written by Maurice Sendak and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visual Peace

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  • Author : Frank Möller
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-10-18
  • ISBN : 1137020407
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book Visual Peace written by Frank Möller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new research agenda for visual peace research, providing a political analysis of the relationship between visual representations and the politics of violence nationally and internationally. Using a range of genres, from photography to painting, it elaborates on how people can become agents of their own image.

Book Signs for Peace

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  • Author : Ruedi Baur
  • Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9783037782439
  • Pages : 595 pages

Download or read book Signs for Peace written by Ruedi Baur and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one visualize peace? Are there signs, symbols, and images that present a positive image of peace as opposed to receiving their meanings in opposition to war? Over several years of research, the Design2context Institute has intensively examined the representation and representability of peace and has compiled a comprehensive collection of images. In order to include a number of historical, cultural, and political perspectives, the archival aspect is supplemented by workshops in crisis regions. The encyclopedia--which, as new sociopolitical situations continue to arise and call for new pictures, must inevitably remain incomplete--provides a broad overview of the iconography of peace, and is also intended to assist in gaining an understanding of the concept. This book represents a significant contribution to future discussions on the need and desire for peace in political and social life.

Book Images of Women in Peace and War

Download or read book Images of Women in Peace and War written by Sharon Macdonald and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As warriors, freedom fighters and victims, as mothers, wives and prostitutes, and as creators and members of peace movements, women are inevitably caught up in the net of war. Yet women's participation in warfare and peace campaigns has often been underestimated or ignored. Images of Women in Peace and War explores women's relationships to war, peace, and revolution, from the Amazons, Inka and Boadicea, to women soldiers in South Africa, Mau Mau freedom fighters and the protestors at Greenham Common. The contributors consider not only the reality of women's participation but also look at how their actions have been perceived and represented across cultures and through history. They examine how sexual imagery is constructed, how it is used to delineate women's relation to warfare and how these images have sometimes been subverted in order to challenge the status quo. The book raises important questions about whether women have a special prerogative to promote peace and considers whether the experience of motherhood leads to a distinctive women's position on war. The authors find that their analyses lead them to deal with arguments on the basic nature of the sexes and to reevaluate our concepts of "peace," "war," and "gender."

Book IMAGINE

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  • Author : VII Foundation
  • Publisher : SparkPress
  • Release : 2020-10-06
  • ISBN : 168463086X
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book IMAGINE written by VII Foundation and published by SparkPress. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When battlefield prowess and political manipulation are not enough to achieve peace through victory, we summon our best and brightest to negotiate an end; we celebrate peace settlements; and we give prizes, if not to victors, then to visionaries. We exalt peace as a human achievement, and justly so. But the reality of peace is flawed. The rewards of peace are elusive for the men and women who live in the post-conflict societies of our time. Why is it so difficult to make a good peace when it is so easy to imagine? That is the question behind Imagine: Reflections on Peace. In this stunning collection, photographic essays make grippingly palpable the stakes during war and peace. Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Justice Richard Goldstone, and Jonathan Powell, chief negotiator for the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement, are joined by world-renown writers in revealing the complexities of redemption and rebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Rwanda. We hear first person accounts of survival and the search for inner peace, bringing the big picture to a personal level. With added insights from scholars and practitioners, the book offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the unvarnished story of peace and a window into what it takes for societies and individuals to move forward after unspeakable brutality.

Book Five Minutes  Peace

Download or read book Five Minutes Peace written by Jill Murphy and published by Large Family. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis coming soon.......

Book Steps Toward Inner Peace

Download or read book Steps Toward Inner Peace written by Peace Pilgrim and published by Friends of Peace PIlgrim. This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anatomy of Peace

Download or read book The Anatomy of Peace written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Peace of My Mind

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  • Author : John Noltner
  • Publisher : Self Publisher
  • Release : 2011-11
  • ISBN : 9780615530680
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book A Peace of My Mind written by John Noltner and published by Self Publisher. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world that often asks us to consider the things that can separate us...whether that is race, politics or ethnicity...A Peace of My Mind explores the common humanity that unites us. "A Peace of My Mind" is a 120-page book that features the b&w portraits and personal stories of 55 individuals who answer the simple question, "What does peace mean to you?" Since 2009, Noltner has photographed and interviewed Holocaust survivors, refugees, political leaders, artists, homeless individuals, and others, asking them to reveal what peace means to them, how they work towards it in their lives and what obstacles they encounter along the way. The result is a stunning and heart-felt collection that acknowledges the challenges we face as a society, yet builds hope through the inspiring stories of people committed to peaceful tomorrows.

Book Peace

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  • Author : Miranda Paul
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2024-04-23
  • ISBN : 0735845530
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book Peace written by Miranda Paul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A valuable, necessary lesson that beautifully defines peace for children and their adults.”–School Library Journal, starred review A stunning and multicultural introduction to the concept of peace for young readers, now available in paperback. Peace is on purpose. Peace is a choice. Peace lets the smallest of us have a voice. From a hello and pronouncing your friend’s name correctly to giving more than you take and saying I’m sorry, this simple concept book explores definitions of peace and actions small and big that foster it. Award-winning authors, Baptiste Paul and Miranda Paul, have teamed up with illustrator Estelí Meza—winner of the ‘A la Orilla del Viento’ the premier Picture Book Contest Award in Mexico—to create an inspiring look at things we can all do to bring peace into our lives and world.

Book Peace  Complexity  Visuality

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  • Author : Rasmus Bellmer
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3031382188
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Peace Complexity Visuality written by Rasmus Bellmer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community of Peace

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  • Author : Christopher Courtheyn
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2022-03-29
  • ISBN : 082298878X
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Community of Peace written by Christopher Courtheyn and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations. Yet it also happens at the grassroots level, where communities envision and create peace on their own. The San José de Apartadó Peace Community of small-scale farmers has not waited for a top-down peace treaty. Instead, they have actively resisted forced displacement and co-optation by guerrillas, army soldiers, and paramilitaries for two decades in Colombia’s war-torn Urabá region. Based on ethnographic action research over a twelve-year period, Christopher Courtheyn illuminates the community’s understandings of peace and territorial practices against ongoing assassinations and displacement. San José’s peace through autonomy reflects an alternative to traditional modes of politics practiced through electoral representation and armed struggle. Courtheyn explores the meaning of peace and territory, while also interrogating the role of race in Colombia’s war and the relationship between memory and peace. Amid the widespread violence of today’s global crisis, Community of Peace illustrates San José’s rupture from the logics of colonialism and capitalism through the construction of political solidarity and communal peace.

Book Making Peace with the World

Download or read book Making Peace with the World written by Richard Sitler and published by Other Places Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photo-documentary of Peace Corps volunteers serving communities around the world.

Book Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World

Download or read book Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World written by E. P. Moloney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare has long been central to a proper understanding of ancient Greece and Rome, worlds where war was, as the philosopher Heraclitus observed, ‘both king and father of all’. More recently, however, the understanding of Classical antiquity solely in such terms has been challenged; it is recognised that while war was pervasive, and a key concern in the narratives of ancient historians, a concomitant desire for peace was also constant. This volume places peace in the prime position as a panel of scholars stresses the importance of ‘peace’ as a positive concept in the ancient world (and not just the absence of, or necessarily even related to, war), and considers examples of conflict resolution, conciliation, and concession from Homer to Augustine. Comparing and contrasting theories and practice across different periods and regions, this collection highlights, first, the open and dynamic nature of peace, and then seeks to review a wide variety of initiatives from across the Classical world.

Book Eisenhower s Atoms for Peace

Download or read book Eisenhower s Atoms for Peace written by Ira Chernus and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his "Atoms for Peace" speech of 1953, President Dwight David Eisenhower captured the tensions--and the ironies--of the atomic age. While nuclear devastation threatened all nations, Eisenhower believed only nuclear preparedness offered protection; while nuclear weapons loomed as the ultimate war cloud, nuclear power offered progress and hope. In this thought-provoking consideration of Eisenhower's speech and others leading up to it, Ira Chernus views the "Atoms for Peace" speech, presented to the General Assembly of the United Nations, not merely as a legitimation of American foreign policy but as itself an act of policy. Indeed, he frames the policy in a new interpretation of Eisenhower's broad discursive goal, which he calls "apocalypse management," a plan to allow the United States to manage threats and crises around the world. Chernus sheds new light on the internal consistency of Eisenhower's thought, which many observers have found inconsistent, as well as on the ways in which the president's rhetoric backed him into a policy corner he had not intended to occupy. Chernus also reviews the domestic impact of the speech through a detailed examination of media interpretations in the United States. This tightly reasoned, clearly written study offers a new understanding of the evolution of cold war nuclear policy, the power of presidential rhetoric, and the political understanding of America's "man of peace," Dwight David Eisenhower. The full text of Eisenhower's speech is presented in the text. Those interested in American foreign policy will find it compelling reading; scholars and students will find it challenging and rewarding analysis.