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Photographic Ambivalence And Historical Consciousness, Michael S. Roth

Michael S Roth

This essay focuses on three topics that arose at the Photography and Historical Interpretation conference: photography’s incapacity to conceive duration; photography and the “rim of ontological uncertainty;” photography’s “anthropological revolution.” In the late nineteenth century, blindness to duration was conceptualized as the cost of photographic precision. Since the late twentieth century, blindness to our own desires, or inauthenticity, has been underlined as the price of photographic ubiquity. These forms of blindness, however, are not so much disabilities to be overcome as they are aspects of modern consciousness to be acknowledged. The engagement with photography’s impact on historical consciousness gives rise …

Ideologia E Utopias Nas Mais Recentes Constituintes Brasileira E Portuguesa: Algumas Linhas De Leitura, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Based upon a political compromise, in which « democratic socialists » and « social democrats » were the main protagonists, the ideology of Portuguese Constitution of 1976 was discrete, subtle. And ulterior constitutional revisions confirmed that fondamental aspect. Of course, utopia was present. But, even more present was the « hope principle ». We believe that the Brazilean constituent assembly, with the original importance of popular contributions, also had hope principle’s decisive influence. But the dinamics of the constituent assembly moderated, since the very beggining, the verbal signs of less discret ideologies. Utopia, neverthless, is very present in the aim …

Baptist Ministerial Education In The United States, 1850-1950, Gregory A. Smith

Gregory A. Smith

Baptist ministerial education in America expanded and changed significantly between 1850 and 1950. This evolutionary process was the product of religious, educational, political, and other forces. Many Baptists of the period opposed ministerial education, believing that the proper qualification for ministry was a divine calling rather than any human achievement. The education of ministers was a major motivating factor in the founding of most Baptist colleges, but many other factors contributed as well. The ministry training curriculum was a matter of debate in various areas—not least the tension between academic and practical concerns. Major Baptist educational leaders of the period …

The Southern Dissenting Clergy And The American Revolution, Cline Edwin Hall

Cline Edwin Hall

The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of the southern dissenting clergy in the American Revolution. Rapidly growing in numbers in the quarter century before the Revolution, these men began to take places of leadership in which they could actively influence their communities. Even though their sermons were important sources of whig ideology, the clergy had a natural tendency to steer away from political involvement. This reluctance, along with their location outside the political and religious establishment in the South, forced them into a position of moderation rather than militant leadership regarding the issues leading to the …

¿Tiene El Empresario Conciencia Social?, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

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Muerte Al Mercado De Capitales, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

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Fear And Projection As Root Causes Of War, And The Archetypal Energies "Trust" And "Peace" As Antidotes, Carroy U. Ferguson

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

I want to use this opportunity to discuss a phenomenon that continues to plague the human experience. It is called the game of war. War is perhaps the deadliest game that humanity has created. The conflict itself represents what appears to be opposing views about the way things should be. Each side believes that it is right and that its actions are justified. Each side therefore seeks to impose its views on the other or to defend its views against the other. Each side fears the other as an enemy and each side projects its fears onto its perceived “enemy.”

September 11th, John Maynard Keynes, Kenneth J. Arrow, And Me: The Nexus, David Randall Jenkins

David Randall Jenkins, Ph.D.

De Revolución En Revolución, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

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Deconstructing The Slums Of Baltimore, Garrett Power

Garrett Power

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“'Roots Run Deep Here': The Construction Of Black New Orleans In Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives", Lynnell L. Thomas

Lynnell Thomas

This article explores the emergent post-Katrina tourism narrative and its ambivalent racialization of the city. Tourism officials are compelled to acknowledge a New Orleans outside the traditional tourist boundaries – primarily black, often poor, and still largely neglected by the city and national governments. On the other hand, tourism promoters do not relinquish (and do not allow tourists to relinquish) the myths of racial exoticism and white supremacist desire for a construction of blacks as artistically talented but socially inferior.

¿Demasiada Expectativa En Los Brics?, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

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Review Of "Dance As Text: Ideologies Of The Baroque Body" By Mark Franko, Laurie Nussdorfer

Laurie Nussdorfer

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The Politics Of Space In Early Modern Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer

Laurie Nussdorfer

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The Vacant See: Ritual And Protest In Early Modern Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer

Laurie Nussdorfer

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Print And Pageantry In Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer

Laurie Nussdorfer

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Death, Decline Or Atrophy? The Necessity Of Politics, Anthony Ashbolt

Anthony Ashbolt

While thinking about the contemporary state of politics, it is very difficult to shake off a recurring image from the brilliant television series A Very Peculiar Practice. In that show, a wonderful aging character was writing a book about the parlous state of higher education in Great Britain. 'Death of the University' muttered Jock into a portable tape recorder, between swigs of Scotch, as he wandered around campus despairing at the shattered values and distorted priorities of the new university. Jock spoke for all of us who care about education. I hope to be speaking to all of us who …

Illawarra Unity: Editorial July 2006, Anthony Ashbolt

Anthony Ashbolt

As the new Industrial Relations legislation prepares the labour movement for wider and more militant struggles, it is good to be reminded of industrial action that resulted in trade union victory.

Illawarra Unity: Editorial 2007, Anthony Ashbolt

Anthony Ashbolt

Class and the very concept of class struggle seem almost quaint today. They speak, it is sometimes assumed, to different times. Yet in the battle around WorkChoices, in the struggle for public education and the public sphere generally, class is ever present. Paradoxically, participants on both sides of the culture and history wars have tended to slide past class, elevating instead gender, race and sexuality, on the one hand, or national pride and economic progress, on the other. Terry Irving brings class back to life in his new book The Southern Tree of Liberty: the democratic movement in New South …

Illawarra Unity: Editorial 2005, Anthony Ashbolt

Anthony Ashbolt

Labour movement struggles have a significant cultural dimension. The role of music has been particularly important. IWW songster and activist Joe Hill personified the intimate connection between songs and struggle. When contemporary folk musician John McCutcheon performs, as he invariably does in Australia, ‘The Ballad of Joe Hill’, he prefaces the song with a wonderful tale about Paul Robeson singing for the workers on the steps of the Sydney Opera House (see John McCutcheon Live at Wolf Trap). Folk music is story-telling and it gives a voice to the oppressed, the marginalised and the working classes. In this issue of …

Siev X And The Banality Of Evil: An Interview With Tony Kevin, Anthony Ashbolt, Tony Kevin

Anthony Ashbolt

Tony Kevin is the author of the award-winning A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of the SIEV X, published in 2004. He retired from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1998, after a thirty-year public service career involving posts in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Prime Minister’s Department. He was previously Australia’s ambassador to Poland (1991-94) and Cambodia (1994- 97). Tony Kevin has been an honorary Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies since 1998. Since 2001 he has given guest classes on United Nations …

Remembering The Warilla Strike: An Interview With Jim Bradley, Anthony Ashbolt, Jim Bradley

Anthony Ashbolt

Jim Bradley, the local New South Wales Teachers Federation spokesman at the time of the Warilla teachers strike in 1976 is now an active campaigner on behalf of the disabled. His impressive work with the South Coast Disabled Surfers Association has received national recognition.

Long Tan: The Politics Of Forgetting, Anthony Ashbolt

Anthony Ashbolt

The 40th anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Long Tan have been both excessive and tendentious. The rehabilitation of Vietnam veterans now serves to reinforce amnesia about Vietnam itself. Such amnesia serves the interests of policy makers in Canberra. Far from the immoral imperialist venture that it was, the American war in Vietnam now functions as a salutary reminder of Australian heroism. The noble warrior is recreated before our eyes: spurned and trashed by the anti-war movement and the Government, labelled a baby-killer by people in the street or the pub, thrown in the gutter to fester and die of …

The Warilla High School Strike: A Veritable Class Struggle, Anthony Ashbolt

Anthony Ashbolt

On 10 February 1976 the Illawarra Mercury reported that 18,000 steelworkers would strike from midnight for 24 hours due to BHP’s refusal to ratify a steel award which lifted the all purpose bonus from $12 to $30. The following day, the major industrial news (front page) involved the ACTU warning of massive industrial unrest if the 6.4% was not granted. It was not until page 8 that there was an item about Warilla High School teachers going on strike the previous day. From then on, it was much bigger news. The Warilla High School strike persisted for 28 days and …

Illawarra Unity: Editorial 2008-9, Anthony Ashbolt

Anthony Ashbolt

As the financial system internationally shudders and shakes and disappears, only to reappear as something else, we are entitled to ask if this finally is the death throes of capitalism. Or is it merely the end run of what Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called “extreme capitalism”? Rudd’s diagnosis, of course, is problematic, precisely because he fails to see the systemic fault-lines. Instead, he points to personal greed and unfettered finance as the causes, when both are merely symptoms of a more deadly neo-liberal disease. And the current Labor Government, rather than tackling this disease directly, pushes empty rhetoric …

Religion, Longevity, And Cooperation: The Case Of The Craft Guild, Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson

Whenthe mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alonemaynot sustain cooperation, and religion may play an important role in shaping economic institutions. This insight explains why during the fourteenth century, when plagues decimated populations and the church promoted the doctrine of purgatory, guilds that bundled together religious and occupational activities dominated manufacturing and commerce. During the sixteenth century, the disease environment eased, and the Reformation dispelled the doctrine of purgatory, necessitating the development of new methods of organizing industry. The logic underlying this conclusion has implications for the study of institutions, economics, and religion throughout history and in the developing world …

Unit Pride: Ethnic Platoons And The Myths Of American Nationality, Richard Slotkin

Richard Slotkin

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Gunfighters And Green Berets: The Magnificent Seven And The Myth Of Counter-Insurgency, Richard Slotkin

Richard Slotkin

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El Modelo De Desarrollo Guayaquileño, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

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Neera Desai (1925-2009): Pioneer Of Women’S Studies In India, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

The front runner of Women’s Studies in India and the creator of a model women’s studies centre that combined the ethos of women’s studies and women’s movement at the SNDT University, Mumbai, Neera Desai passed away on 25 June, 2009.