Download or read book Straddling the Iron Curtain written by Machteld Venken and published by Studies in History, Memory and Politics. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book neither researches structural integration, nor starts from ethnically defined categories. At the basis are two clearly distinguishable migration streams entering Belgium in the aftermath of World War II. First, there were about 350 soldiers from Poland who served with the Allies, had met Flemish young women during their liberation march through Flanders, married their financ?es in 1945 and 1946 and settled in their wives' hometowns and villages. And second, there were the Ostarbeiterinnen-- Soviet young women of Ukrainian, Russian, or Belarusian decent, who after the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, were deported to Nazi Germany to do forced labor. While at work, the young women met Western European deported workers, volunteers, and prisoners of war. Although any off-duty contact between them was prohibited, numerous love affairs flourished and after their liberation by the Western Allies, about 4,000 Ostarbeiterinnen chose to migrate further to Belgium rather than be repatriated to the Soviet Union where they could be accused of collaboration ... The central question of this study is as follows: are the war experiences and war memories of these two migration streams similar because they were all displaced persons living in the 'same standardised refugee world'?"--Introd.

Download or read book Paths of Integration written by Leo Lucassen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some migrants integrate quickly, while others become long-term minorities? What is the role of the state in the settlement process? To what extent are experiences in the past different from the present? Are the recent migrants really integrating in another way than those in the past? Is Islam indeed an obstacle to integration? These are some of the burning questions, which dominate the current politicized debate on immigration in Western Europe. In this book, leading historians and social scientists analyze and compare a variety of settlement processes in past and present migration to Western Europe. Identifying general factors in the process of adaptation of new immigrants, the contributors trace social changes effected by recent European immigration, and the parallels with the great American migration of the 1880s-1920s. The history of migration to Western Europe and the way these migrants found their place in the receiving societies, is not only essential to understand the way nations deal with newcomers in the present, but also constitutes a highly interesting laboratory for different paths of integration now and then. By analyzing and comparing a wealth of settlement processes both in the past and in the present this book is both a bold interdisciplinary endeavor, and at the same time the first attempt to identify general factors underlying the way migrants adapt to their new surroundings, as well as how societies change under the influence of immigration. The chapters in the book both look at specific groups in various periods, but also analyses the structure of the state, churches unions and other important organized actors in Western European nation states. Moreover, the results are embedded in the more theoretical American literature on the comparison of old and new migrants. All chapters have an explicit comparative perspective, either by comparing different groups or different periods, whereas the general conclusion ties together the various outcomes in a systematic way, highlighting the main answers to the central questions about the various outcomes of settlement processes. --Publisher.

Download or read book Ivan s War written by Catherine Merridale and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmasking the Untold Story of World War II Of the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. Sixty years have passed since their epic triumph, but the heart and mind of Ivan–as the ordinary Russian soldier was called–remain a mystery. We know something about how the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought. Sourced from previously inaccessible military archives, personal diaries, and intimate veterans' narratives, author Catherine Merridale unveils the untold journey of these soldiers from their first encounter with the German offensive to their hard-earned victory in Stalingrad–a place where survival was measured in mere hours. Accompany these brave hearts into the morose streets of Berlin, as they face their anger, fear, and finally, a bitter homecoming, denied of the new life for which they sacrificed everything. Discover this unique fusion of patriotism, courage, and human spirit that drove these undernourished, poorly led troops to overthrow the Nazi menace. Ivan's War emphatically places these invisible millions at the core of their deserved historical context, accounting for their major role in shaping a new era.

Download or read book Caught in the Act written by Tanya Mars and published by YYZ Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This definitive anthology focuses on the 70s and 80s--a time when women made a big and noisy impact on society -- and provides readers with insight into the profound effects that feminism and women's work have had on contemporary culture. Full of sass and insight, this essential collection is part survey, part critical discourse, and part reference book."--Pub. desc.

Download or read book Psychic Unrest written by Lillian Allen and published by Insomniac Press. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychic Unrest is full of the sea and rain, blues and golds, rhythm and revolution. This is Lillian Allen's long-anticipated book of poems OCo her first book since 1993. Collected here is a mix of poems, songs and poetic essays. Allen creates and examines a new poetic style, blending traditional poetry with her inimitable lyrical style, resulting in abstract poems with rhythmic movement that shout out to be read aloud."

Download or read book Performance performance and Performers written by Bruce Barber and published by Y Y Z Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance [Performance] Performers consists of two voluumes: Volume 2 contains nine essays on performance art written over a thirty year period, from 1976 to 2006, while Volume 1 contains fourteen interviews with leading performance artists in Canada and the U.S. conducted over the same period, and is generously illustrated with photographs of many now landmark art performances.

Download or read book Unboxed written by Jen Budney and published by YYZ Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unboxed : engagements in social space is a collection of critical essays about and by artists who work between and across the borders of art, architecture and performance. This collection is loosely based upon a lecture series that Gallery 101 and Carleton University School of Architecture co-hosted throughout the fall and winter of 2002-2003."--Page 11.

Download or read book Urban Fictions written by Lorna Brown and published by North Vancouver, B.C. : Presentation House Gallery. This book was released on 1997 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rhythm An Hardtimes written by Lillian Allen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lillian Allen, who hails from Jamaica, has lived in North America for over a decade. She considers herself as a folk poet and a folk writer. Although she writes mostly plays and short stories, she has been writing and performing poetry in Toronto for many years now. She introduced DUB poetry to Canada and continues to be its foremost exponent here. 'My work is definitely not meant to lay still on the written page but to be performed'"--back cover.

Download or read book Documentary Protocols 1967 1975 written by Vincent Bonin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Documentary protocols (1967-1975) is the third part of a major project that ... also included two exhibitions (Documentary protocols I and Documentary protocols II) presented at the Gallery in 2007 and 2008. This ....[was] conceived and developed by Vincent Bonin ... The publication Documentary protocols (1967-1975) ... constitutes an exercise in the critical examination of the nature of curatorial work and research at the Gallery ... It is an attempt to grasp and describe ... the paradigm of self-determination in Canadian art that emerged in the mid-1960s ... and the rupture that occurred in the mid-1970s between certain aesthetic positions and political objectives."--"Exhibiting research".

Download or read book The Journals of Knud Rasmussen written by Gillian Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Performance by Artists written by AA Bronson and published by Art metropole. This book was released on 1979 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Moving Image written by Omar Kholeif and published by Documents of Contemporary Art. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies. Moving Image is a key text for comprehending the deep interconnection of the moving image and the worlds of exhibition in the 21st century. - Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London. This anthology examines the rising phenomenon of moving image practice in recent art and theory, tracing its genealogies in experimental cinema and video, body art, performance, site-specific art and installation from the 1960s onwards. Contextualizing new developments made possible by advances in digital and networked technology, it locates contemporary art centred on the moving image within a global framework. Artists surveyed include: Jananne al-Ani, Francis Alӱs, Yuri Ancarini, Oreet Ashery, Ed Atkins, Judith Barry, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Black Audio Film Collective, Brad Butler, Olga Chernysheva, James Coleman, Minerva Cuevas, Stan Douglas, Olafur Eliasson, VALIE EXPORT, Harun Farocki, Omer Fast, Morgan Fisher, Hollis Frampton, Melanie Gilligan, Joana Hadjithomas, Gary Hill, Susan Hiller, William Kentridge, Anja Kirschner, Steve McQueen, Jumana Manna, Karen Mirza, Rabih Mroué, Otolith Group, Nam June Paik, Luther Price, Yvonne Rainer, R.V. Ramani, Pipilotti Rist, Ben Rivers, Ryan Trecartin, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Bill Viola. Writers include: Erika Balsom, Robert Bird, Claire Bishop, Christa Blϋmlinger, Jonathan Crary, T.J. Demos, Jean Fisher, Andrew Grossman, Félix Guattari, Shanay Jhaveri, Sven Lϋtticken, Francesco Manacorda, H.G. Masters, Andrew V. Uroskie, Ian White, Maxa Zoller, and Thomas Zummer.

Download or read book Suzy Lake written by Matthew Brower and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: