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An innovative framework for advancing human rights Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains why: activists prioritize universal legal and moral norms, backed by the public shaming of violators, but in fact rights prevail only when they serve the interests of powerful local constituencies. Jack Snyder demonstrates that where local power and politics lead, rights follow. He presents an innovative roadmap for addressing a broad agenda of human rights concerns: impunity for atrocities, dilemmas of free speech in the age of social media, entrenched abuses of women's rights, and more.Exploring the historical development of human rights around the globe, Snyder shows that liberal rights–based states have experienced a competitive edge over authoritarian regimes in the modern era. He focuses on the role of power, the interests of individuals and the groups they form, and the dynamics of bargaining and coalitions among those groups. The path to human rights entails transitioning from a social order grounded in patronage and favoritism to one dedicated to equal treatment under impersonal rules. Rights flourish when they benefit dominant local actors with the clout to persuade ambivalent peers. Activists, policymakers, and others attempting to advance rights should embrace a tailored strategy, one that acknowledges local power structures and cultural practices.Constructively turning the mainstream framework of human rights advocacy on its head, Human Rights for Pragmatists offers tangible steps that all advocates can take to move the rights project forward

Introduction: Unfolding Layers -- Part 1. Situated Narratives, Embodied Memories: Living Oral Histories -- Theories and Methods of Artists Performing Fieldwork -- The Trouble with Arar or All Things Religious Belong Together -- Perico and Agramonte: Sensorial Stories / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Perico / Jill Flanders Crosby and Melba Núñez Isalbe -- The Rememberer / J. T. Torres -- Agramonte / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Becoming History: The Many Lives of Justo Zulueta -- The Notebooks / J. T. Torres -- French Gods and the Aw n: Narrating Armando Zulueta / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Dzodze: Dancing with Dashi / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Adjodogou: In the Land of Vodu / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Acts of Storytelling -- Part 2. Secrets Under the Skin: Sensing the Moment at the Intersection of Art and Research -- Narrating the Secrets Under the Skin Installation / Jill Flanders Crosby -- The Artist's Accidental Proof: The Palm Frond and the Wood Block / Susan Matthews -- Photographic Insights: Ceremonial Ritual in Ghana and Togo / Brian Jeffery -- in listening/in response / Marianne M. Kim -- Witnessing and Sensing Stories / Melba Núñez Isalbe -- Conclusion: Participating in Metaculture / Jill Flanders Crosby and J. T. Torres -- Afterword / Jill Flanders Crosby

Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; The oral, written, and visual testimonies, as well as all of the material collected for the Project, will be deposited at the Historical Archives of the European Union, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, and will, in compliance with the privacy regulations, be made publicly accessible. Thanks are due to Dieter Schlenker, the director of the Archives, for his acceptance of this fund (see the Appendix of this book for details about the material). Each of the interviewees signed a release form giving us permission to make their interviews and visual material, as well as the transcripts of their testimonies, accessible. They all received a copy of their release forms after being informed of their rights as research participants. Some requested a pseudonym (in this case, only their first names are used in the book), or complete anonymity is maintained. Gustavo Zagrebelsky, the Project's ethical advisor provided useful advice on the ethical and juridical implications of the research project. ; Conversations on Visual Memory is the final product of the research conducted by Luisa Passerini as Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Project "Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond" (BABE). In this book, Passerini broadens the scope of her longstanding engagement with memory, extending it from orality to visuality. The book brings together Passerini's dialogues with experts in the fields of memory and visuality; "maps" drawn and presented by mobile individuals interviewed in the course of the BABE fieldwork; and art that thematically centers on migration toward and across Europe. In the first chapter of Part 1, Passerini evokes her conversations with the cognitive psychologist, Jerry Bruner (1915–2016. These exchanges enable the author's envisioning of the "maps" drawn by three individuals who migrated to Italy from Egypt, Albania, and Peru, respectively (chapter 2). The maps shed light on and are simultaneously illuminated by the author's recollections of conversations she had with two other friends: the philosopher of aesthetics, Gianni Carchia (1947–2000) and the anthropologist, Jack Goody (1919–2015) on the relationship between the written and the oral. These latter conversations are interspersed with presentations of "maps" by individuals from Moldova, Pakistan, Romania, and Morocco (chapter 3). Part 2 is an exploration of two fields of knowledge that are evolving along different lines: art on the theme of migration, on the one hand, and documentation (oral, visual, and written) collected from mobile individuals whose trajectories are directed to and through Europe, on the other. Visual works by Eva Leitolf; Victor López González; Ursula Biemann and Bouchra Khalili are set in dialogue with "maps" drawn by interviewees from Peru, Syria, Nigeria, Moldova, Ecuador, Morocco, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and Ukraine. The book concludes with a discussion in a graduate class that Passerini directed in oral history, which highlights the importance of art for teaching and researching in this field. ; Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond (BABE) Project received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013) / ERC Grant Agreement no. 29585. In the years 2013–2018, the Project was based at the EUI's Department of History, BABE team. ; - Acknowledgements - Prologue -- Part One: Distant Voices, Present Lives - Chapter 1. Acts of Mapping: Jerry Bruner - Chapter 2. Remote Pasts, Possible Worlds: Magdy Youssef; Blerina Cuni; Antony - Chapter 3. Signs, Sounds, and Skills: Mihail Tirdea; Irina Stan; Ali Arush; Stefan Alexandru Mihai; Florina Claudia Negut; and Alina Gabriela Bolog. Gianni Carchia. Jack Goody. Youssef Boukkouss; Tarik El Amiri -- Part Two: Dialogues Between Images - Chapter 4. Figurative Borders of Europe: Eva Leitolf. Leonardo Puris; Mohamed. Ai Weiwei - Victor López González. Henry Moses; Maricica Anasie; Ludmila Dmitriev - Chapter 5. Reverberations and Critical Distances in Mobility Research: Ursula Biemann. Luz Fabiola Sanmaniego Jimenez; Hanane Radouane; Angelica Judith Canchi Cornejo - Chapter 6. Keywords for Shared Memories: Bouchra Khalili. Jean-Willy Mundele-Makusu; Abdou Cissé; Laila Mountassir; Iryna Prokaza - Appendix. Interviewees' Places of Origin and Arrival - Index of Names

The Tucuman region, located in the heart of Northwestern Argentina, is an area known for its wealth of cultural materials. From the earliest days of the nation, Tucuman has been a place where a wide range of policies and proposals have been advanced in relation to how these materials should be managed. It is therefore possible to review the concrete developments that have taken place along these lines, as well as the specifics of other projects that have been proposed. Here we undertake an initial analysis of how the State has engaged in the planning, definition and, ultimately, the construction of the province of Tucuman's archeological heritage, with regard to the collection of cultural material resources. These represent a distinctive element of local history and therefore deserve special attention in terms of guaranteeing their secure curation and future preservation. The specific focus of our study is the pre-Hispanic indigenous material culture of western Tucuman. We discuss the different processes that have taken place during the last one hundred years, taking into account the various entities involved in establishing heritage status and the associated historical, political and social contexts. We believe this is a case that may become paradigmatic in coming years, in regard to both the present-day uses of pre-Hispanic cultural resources and their long-term future. ; El territorio tucumano, en el centro del Noroeste argentino, es un área conocida por la riqueza de sus manifestaciones culturales materiales. Desde los comienzos de la constitución del Estado, Tucumán fue locus de distintas políticas y propuestas que las implicaban. Es factible rastrearlas en el accionar concreto sobre esos recursos culturales, así como también en los proyectos que se fueron planteando. Abordaremos un primer análisis de cómo desde el Estado se fue dibujando, definiendo, en fin, construyendo el "patrimonio arqueológico" en la provincia de Tucumán, en tanto conjunto de bienes culturales materiales que representaría parte del pasado local y que, por ende, merecería recibir un trato especial a los fines de garantizar su resguardo y conservación. Nuestro eje de estudio se centra en la materialidad indígena prehispánica del del Valle de Tafí en el Oeste tucumano indagando los diversos procesos y tomando en cuenta los diferentes actores que fueron configurando su patrimonialización en los contextos históricos, políticos y sociales de los últimos cien años. Consideramos que es un caso que puede ser paradigmático en pocos años más, tanto en lo que respecta al uso de los recursos culturales prehispánicos así como al destino de los mismos.

The Tucuman region, located in the heart of Northwestern Argentina, is an area known for its wealth of cultural materials. From the earliest days of the nation, Tucuman has been a place where a wide range of policies and proposals have been advanced in relation to how these materials should be managed. It is therefore possible to review the concrete developments that have taken place along these lines, as well as the specifics of other projects that have been proposed. Here we undertake an initial analysis of how the State has engaged in the planning, definition and, ultimately, the construction of the province of Tucuman's archeological heritage, with regard to the collection of cultural material resources. These represent a distinctive element of local history and therefore deserve special attention in terms of guaranteeing their secure curation and future preservation. The specific focus of our study is the pre-Hispanic indigenous material culture of western Tucuman. We discuss the different processes that have taken place during the last one hundred years, taking into account the various entities involved in establishing heritage status and the associated historical, political and social contexts. We believe this is a case that may become paradigmatic in coming years, in regard to both the present-day uses of pre-Hispanic cultural resources and their long-term future. ; El territorio tucumano, en el centro del Noroeste argentino, es un área conocida por la riqueza de sus manifestaciones culturales materiales. Desde los comienzos de la constitución del Estado, Tucumán fue locus de distintas políticas y propuestas que las implicaban. Es factible rastrearlas en el accionar concreto sobre esos recursos culturales, así como también en los proyectos que se fueron planteando. Abordaremos un primer análisis de cómo desde el Estado se fue dibujando, definiendo, en fin, construyendo el "patrimonio arqueológico" en la provincia de Tucumán, en tanto conjunto de bienes culturales materiales que representaría parte del pasado local y que, por ende, merecería recibir un trato especial a los fines de garantizar su resguardo y conservación. Nuestro eje de estudio se centra en la materialidad indígena prehispánica del del Valle de Tafí en el Oeste tucumano indagando los diversos procesos y tomando en cuenta los diferentes actores que fueron configurando su patrimonialización en los contextos históricos, políticos y sociales de los últimos cien años. Consideramos que es un caso que puede ser paradigmático en pocos años más, tanto en lo que respecta al uso de los recursos culturales prehispánicos así como al destino de los mismos.

"In recent years Western countries have seen a proliferation of antisemitic material in social media and other online outlets and in violent attacks on Jews. The evidence is undeniable, ranging from FBI hate-crime statistics to the attack on Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. In Blaming the Jews, author Bernard Harrison offers a new and unique analysis of the nature of antisemitism and its persistence as a cultural phenomenon. Questioning the assumption that antisemitism affects or targets only Jews, he demonstrates that, allowed to go on unrecognized or unchecked, antisemitism is potentially damaging to us all. In a world where rhetoric is fashioned on stereotypes, Harrison argues it is our responsibility to be vigilant in exposing the delusions of antisemitism that have potentially appalling consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike"--

"Ancient and Modern Democracy is a comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years, covering the features of Athenian democracy, its importance for the English, American and French revolutions and for the debates on democracy and political liberty from the nineteenth century to the present. Discussions were always in the context of contemporary constitutional problems. Time and again they made a connection with a long-established tradition, involving both dialogue with ancient sources and with earlier phases of the reception of Antiquity. They refer either to a common cultural legacy or to specific national traditions; they often involve a mixture of political and scholarly arguments. This book elucidates the complexity of considering and constructing systems of popular self-rule"--

The little-known details and inner workings of the Ottoman harem are now on display in a new exhibition that opened this week at Istanbul's historic Topkapi Palace Museum. A joint effort between the Topkapi Palace Museum and the Ankara-based Bilkent Cultural Initiative (BKG), Padisahin Evi: Harem-i Hümayunʺ is made up of around 300 items, including various personal belongings and objects used by the Ottoman sultans, their wives and children, written documents from the palace's archives and works of art depicting life in the Ottoman court and the harem, such as gravures and miniatures. The exhibit's four sections recount how the harem was built, its hierarchical structure, the daily life in the harem and the lives of the Ottoman imperial family and their relationship with the harem.

Between 1931 and 1936, the Second Republic in Spain was proclaimed. A social and political model consolidated as one of the most prolific according the artistic point of view. The new democratic regime brought many basic rights for women as the chance to complete their university studies. An emblematic figure of the cultural and architectural revolution of Spain was Matilde Ucelay Maortua. The project here analyzed is the house of Vicente Sebastián Llegat in Pradolargo-Pozuelo de Alarcón, of 1968. Matilde Ucelay designed a building with two levels, a large garden, a swimming pool and the outside porch marking the environment of the L-structure of the house. The critical redrawing of the Ucelay's project highlights her way of conceiving architecture with organic shapes and fluid spaces open to new artistic frontiers.

It is argued that the capitalist world economy could not have emerged without the founding of North & South America in the sixteenth century, & that "Americanity" has always been, & remains to this day, an essential element in modernity. The process by which the New World became the model of the entire worldsystem is discussed, & it is shown that ethnicity is the inevitable cultural consequence of coloniality, because it delineated the social boundaries corresponding to the division of labor. The way in which formal racism & the deification of newness -- both salient components of Americanity -- contributed to the emergence of the modern worldsystem is also discussed, & it is concluded that Americanity constituted the erection of an ideological overlay to the modern worldsystem. The future of the Americas is briefly discussed. W. Howard

This essay introduces a special issue focused on "Other Bandungs," which moves away from the focus on the high diplomacy of the 1955 Bandung conference to examine other conferences and gatherings across the Afro-Asian world. These gatherings speak to a broader participation of activists, intellectuals, cultural figures, and political leaders in the Afro-Asian moment. This collection thus disrupts hard divisions between state and non-state and warring Cold War blocs, while pointing to the changing social dynamics of internationalism in the Afro-Asian world. This essay points to the material dimensions enhancing and undermining transnational activity, from air travel and passport restrictions to the political economy of conference financing and Cold War patronage. Taken together, this essay frames these articles as an interconnected story of the multiple pulls of cultural and intellectual traffic in the post-colonial era.

The First World War has changed the face of the Middle East. As the geopolitical map is fully modified, new issues emerge (zionism, rise of Arab nationalisms, etc.). France sets up politically in the region as a colonial power through mandates in Lebanon and Syria. In 1952, the Middle East, where the state of Israel and numerous independent countries reunited in the Arab League can be found, no longer offers the same face as before 1914.Along with technical progress and modernity hardware and with the development of mass tourism, these political upheavals directly affect the french literary tradition of the Journey to the East. It experienced its golden age during the XIXst century, with the artworks by Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Nerval, Flaubert and Loti. But it must be observed that French travelers don't stop coming in the region for all that. From Maurice Barrès to Roger Vailland, passing by Paul Morand, Louis Bertrand, Myriam Harry, Roland Dorgelès, Joseph Kessel or Albert Londres, a lot of writers and reporters go to the Middle East and dedicate a book to this experience.Our work was to build a corpus, which means identify and classify a wide range of texts (books and journalistic articles) – some of which are not well known today – in order to analyze them in a process of literary history and according to a postcolonial perspective.The goal was to give an account of a whole production torn apart melancholic retrospection and enthusiastic description of the modern oriental realities. The Romantic "East" is then the subject of an intense debate and the Journey to the East is tinged with controversy colouring. Travel writers try to revive this literary tradition, reinventing its forms and adopting a less eurocentric point of view, contrary to the colonial acme of the thirties.The analysis of these works which were never studied together before allowed us to write a new chapter of the history of french literary orientalism. ; Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, le Moyen Orient connaît de profonds ...

"This edited collection of essays critically examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and/or chronic illness. Contributors employ a wide variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation."--