Fernando Solanas: An Interview
Solanas, Fernando and MacBean, James Roy. Film Quarterly volume 24, no. 1 (Autumn 1970), pp. 37-43. This article is an interview with Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Solanas about documentary filmmaking and Third…
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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…
Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict with Johan Galtung
YouTube. University of California, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16YiLqftppo This speech by Galtung explores his thought, in particular, his theories of reconciliation and positive/negative peace. Galtung…
The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-political Bind
Butler, Judith. London: Verso, 2021. Summary In this book, Butler explores nonviolence as a central, and necessary, tool in the struggle for social equality. Butler emphasises nonviolence as a ethical – and political –…
A Global Sense of Place
Massey, Doreen. Marxism Today 38 (1991): 24-29. In this landmark essay, Massey theorizes sense of place as a global phenomenon, challenging the postmodern notion that sense of place cannot withstand time-space…
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…
Language, nationality and cultural identity in the Irish Free State, 1922-7: the Irish Statesman and the Catholic Bulletin reappraised
O’Callaghan, Margaret. Irish Historical Studies 24, no. 94 (1984): 226-245. In this article, Margaret O’Callaghan takes a closer look at the creation of an Irish national identity in the early years of the Free State.…
The solitude of Latin America
García Márquez, Gabriel, The Nobel Prize, Dec 8, 1982. This entry to the library contains a translation into English of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982. As a globally…
Habsburg’s Last War in Austrian films, 1918 to the present
Leidinger, Hannes. 2018. University of New Orleans Press. This article presents an analysis of the appearance of Habsburg monarchs and the pre-World War I Austrian Empire which was common in Austrian film from the…