A Really Good Brown Girl
Dumont, Marilyn. Canada: Brick Books, 1996. Marilyn Dumont’s poetry collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, reads as a journey from internalised shame to pride in Métis identity. The coming-of-age text, a combination of…
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Newspaper nationalism: Sinhala identity as historical discourse
Tennekoon, Serena. In Sri Lanka: History and the roots of conflict, edited by Jonathan Spencer, 205-226. London:Routledge, 1990. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203407417. This book chapter, written by Serena Tennekoon, is…
The generation of communal identities
Nissan, Elizabeth and Stirrat, R.L. In Sri Lanka: History and the roots of conflict, edited by Jonathan Spencer, 19-44. London:Routledge, 1990. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203407417. This book chapter, written by…
Wreckage Upon Wreckage: History, Documentary and the Ruins of Memory
Rabinowitz, Paula. History and Theory volume 32, no. 2 (May 1993), pp. 119-137. In this insightful article, Paula Rabinowitz writes that documentary films ask their audiences to consider memory, both individual and…
’Peace on Earth – Peace in Vietnam’: The Catholic Peace Fellowship and Antiwar Witness, 1964-1976
Moon, Penelope Adams. Journal of Social History 36, no. 4 (Summer, 2003): 1033-1051. doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0108. This article examines the history of the Catholic Peace Fellowship during the Vietnam War, which was…
The Work of EAPPI in Palestine
Pax Palestine Podcast, podcast audio, March 30, 2021. https://paxpalestinepodcast.buzzsprout.com/1727861/8109296-1-the-work-of-the-eappi-in-palestine The podcast episode comes from PAX, a Dutch peacemaking…
Dining with Diplomats, Praying with Gunmen: Experiences of International Conciliation for a New Generation of Peacemakers
Bennett, Anne. London: Quaker Books, 2020. Dining with Diplomats, Praying with Gunmen explores the recent history of Quaker peacebuilding efforts, the principles it is based on and its specific strengths. Much of this…
The role of language in the process of constructing, preserving and reinforcing peace in Africa
Sadembouo, Etienne, Tadadjeu, Maurice. In Language policy and the promotion of peace, edited by Neville Edward Alexander, Arnulf con Scheliha, 47-58. University of South Africa, 2014. This chapter discusses the role of…
Great men and straight men?
Parfitt, Richard. In Musical culture and the spirit of Irish nationalism, 1848–1972. 59-79. Routledge, 2019. In this chapter, Richard Parfitt examines the use of music by different nationalist factions in Ireland…
Sports promotion and the construction of ‘Irish’ identity: Nationalism, social exclusion and the Gaelic Athletic Association
Somerville, Ian, David Mitchell, and Owen Hargie. In Public relations, society and the generative power of history, pp. 173-189. Routledge, 2019. This article examines the role that the popular Irish sporting…