In this review article, I focus on the online portal of Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, General Directorate of Cinema. This portal which provides open access to the institution's film ...archive contains very important materials about the cultural, social, and political history of Turkey and the region. After introducing the main features of the portal, I reflect on the historical importance of its content. I also make comparisons with similar portals for elaborating on issues of cataloging, metadata and interactivity.
REHABILITATING BECÁN Webster, David; Ball, Joseph W.
Ancient Mesoamerica,
01/2021, Letnik:
32, Številka:
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Journal Article
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Research in 1970 vaulted Becán to prominence on the landscape of great Maya centers. Mapping, excavation, and ceramic stratigraphy revealed that its enigmatic earthwork, first recorded ...archaeologically in 1934, was a fortification built at the end of the Preclassic period. Large-scale warfare thus unexpectedly turned out to have very deep roots in the Maya lowlands. The site's wider implications remained obscure, however, in the absence of dates and other inscriptions. The ever-increasing dependence on historical and iconographic information in our narratives, along with the invisibility of its Preclassic buildings and plazas, unfortunately marginalized Becán. Some colleagues even claimed that we have misinterpreted both the nature of the earthworks (not fortifications) and their dating (not Preclassic). We rehabilitate Becán by dispelling these claims and by showing that standard archaeological evidence, contextualized in what we know today, has much to say about Becán's role in lowland culture history. We identify intervals of crisis when the earthwork remained useful long after it was originally built, especially during the great hegemonic struggles of the Snake and Tikal dynasties, and introduce new ceramic and lithic data about Becán's settlement history and political entanglements. Our most important message is that inscriptions and iconography, for all their dramatic chronological detail and historical agency, must always be complemented by standard fieldwork.
Most existing approaches to border health focus on identifying the social determinants that produce ill health and health disparities among migrants, including language barriers, documentation ...status, and trauma associated with migration. Attention to these kinds of problems can lead to policy and clinical changes that indeed help improve quantitatively measurable outcomes for patients. However, these approaches usually ignore the larger historical and political framework that determines the determinants – the underlying infrastructure of ill health, or what we term the infrastructural determinants of health. In this paper, we outline specific infrastructures involving race, political economy, history, and most importantly, borders themselves, that lay the foundations for border illness. We examine the plans, histories, policies, and peoples involved in building the conditions for migration, particularly out of the Northern Triangle, including forces of colonialism, US imperialism, neoliberalism, and border militarization. In place of a tacit acceptance of the modern system of borders, we argue for border abolition as a vital but underused treatment in the repertoire of medical intervention. Outlining the rights of people to stay and to move, and drawing on lessons from the prison abolition movement, we offer policies and practices towards a ‘no borders’ system that privileges liberatory solidarity with migrants by explicitly challenging global infrastructures that drive displacement. In doing so, we offer an emergent framework for a medical border abolition that treats both the causes and symptoms of a widespread global sickness.
•The framework of infrastructural determinants of health is introduced.•Borders and prisons are forms of infrastructural violence.•The health of border abolition is discussed.•Liberatory solidarity aligns health work with abolitionist efforts.
Este artículo ofrece un análisis de la reforma de la Constitución argentina practicada en 1898, mayormente desatendida por la historiografía sobre el periodo. En particular, el estudio apunta a ...explorar las razones por las cuales la convención reformadora introdujo ciertos cambios en el sistema representativo federal, al mismo tiempo que descartó otros. Se intenta así contribuir a una imagen más compleja de la política argentina entre 1880 y 1916.
Much of the scholarly work on politics in Zambia during the early 2000s stresses the role of populist mobilisations and the exploitation of ethnic language identities when explaining one of the main ...political developments of this period - the growing popularity of Michael Sata and his opposition party, the Patriotic Front. A common limitation of these studies is their narrow focus on the immediate context as the source of political populism and ethnic strategy. Drawing on interviews and archival and newspaper sources, this article interprets the later actions of Sata within the context of the past and demonstrates that the nature and style of the political strategies that he employed in the early 2000s were rooted in his experiences in late colonial Zambia, when he learnt the benefits of identifying oneself in ethnic language terms and engaging in worker mobilisations that were populist in character. The reappearance of ethnic and populist strategies in the early 2000s reflects a deeper connection to the past and demonstrates the long shadow of late colonial influences on contemporary Zambian politics. It also challenges the dominant periodisation in Zambian political history by drawing significant connections between different historical eras and showing how lessons learnt in one period were replicated in recognisable form in later periods.
Michael Jacobs and Andrew Hindmoor’s analysis of ‘Labour, left and right’ is a salutary corrective to ‘electoral-ideological’ accounts of party strategy in Britain, and rightly urges scholars to pay ...more attention to substantive ‘policy reasoning’. Jacobs and Hindmoor’s account of Labour policy is only partly convincing, however, because it is based on a sharp distinction between left-wing ‘structural reform’ and moderate ‘redistributive’ strategies which is difficult to justify historically, and understates the importance of social policy commitments to Labour’s positioning. This article argues that Labour’s policy trajectory since the 1980s is better understood through a fiscal lens, which reflects the importance of costings debates in UK general election campaigns and of Shadow Chancellors in opposition policy-making. Shifts in Labour’s positioning can thus be explained by looking at the interplay between the party’s economic thought, the leadership’s perception of its electoral needs, and the changing budgetary context.
This article explores the Counter-Revolution beyond the violent paramilitary reaction in Central- and Eastern Europe in 1918-1921. To this end it looks at the case study of Norway, and the ...organization Samfundshjelpen (Society Aid). Norway is situated in the context of the broader upheaval the continent faced in the wake of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, highlighting that Scandinavia in no way comprised an isolated island immune from political developments in the rest of Europe. In 1920 Society Aid was founded with help from the state, an officer-led strikebreaking organization with a counter-revolutionary agenda. The model for this organization was the German Technische Nothilfe, a daughter organization of the Berlin Freikorps. These organizations quickly developed into a transnational strikebreaking network that comprised virtually every major country in Europe, with regular conferences, correspondence, and other exchanges. The Samfundshjelpen archive shows that its leading figure, Captain Christopher Fougner, played a dynamic role in this network, and helped transfer counter-revolutionary ideas, knowledge, techniques, and organizational forms to Norway and beyond. This reveals Norway played an unexpectedly prominent role in this hitherto unexplored part of the interwar Right, highlighting the importance of integrating regions like Scandinavia in European interwar political history.
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