MAMADOU DIAWARA, BERNARD LATEGAN and JÖRN RÜSEN (eds), Historical Memory in Africa: dealing with the past, reaching for the future in an intercultural context. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb $95.00 – 978 1 84545 652 8). 2010, 280 pp.

Africa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-330
Author(s):  
MADALINA E. FLORESCU
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Book Review Gold, Thomas B. 1986. State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. New York.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardian Bakhtiar Rivai
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
The Past ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Future

Discourse on Taiwan cannot be separated by the legacy of Japanese rule in the past era. This article aims to explore how Taiwan miracle between 1977 and 1983. Adopt the Gold thinking (1986) which discussed the complete Taiwan conditions in those years. I have the interest to understand Taiwan from as in the past as a lesson for today and the future. This book provides an understanding that Taiwan as a colony of Japan inherits the legacies are complete and provide a paradigm about the strong influence of Japan against Taiwan today.

Exorbitant Dust

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-377
Author(s):  
Christina A. León
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Manuel Ramos Otero ◽  
Eventual Death

Abstract This article traces the figure of polvo (dust) across the writing career of Puerto Rican and New York writer Manuel Ramos Otero. Polvo heralds the macabre sensuality of his early short stories, long before his diagnosis with HIV, and persists and morphs through his later essays and poetry up until his eventual death in 1990 from AIDS complications. Writing defiantly as a queer, a feminist, a Puerto Rican, and a sidoso, he produced work that invites death and desire to commingle through a figuration of dust, as a scattered substance that covers skin, coats translation, and dirties conventional genres. Polvo illuminates the dimensions and risks of relation as a particulate matter that exposes our porosity—clinging and hovering in the space between bodies, between the past and the future, between life and death. As the dust settles in the wake of Hurricane María, so too can polvo be read as prescient for how coloniality lingers as enduring conditions of debility and precarity. Ramos Otero's affinity for finitude, figured through polvo, counterintuitively conjures a relational desire that privileges the porous, the marginal, and the always precarious possibility of survival. Polvo moves across the different genres and phases of Ramos Otero's work as a matter that refuses to disentangle the material realities of queerness and coloniality.

TBI Research: Reviewing the Past, Planning the Future

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-299
Author(s):  
Brick Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
New York ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Oxford University Press

Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury. Walter M. High, Jr., Angelle M. Sander, Margaret A. Struchen, and Karen A. Hart (Eds.). 2005. New York: Oxford University Press. 368 pp., $69.50 (HB).Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury, the final product of a 2003 conference that assembled national experts on traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation, was written to “bring into one volume a concise and authoritative account of what is currently known in the field of TBI rehabilitation.” It is intended for TBI clinicians and researchers including neuropsychologists, physiatrists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, and rehabilitation therapists. The volume is impressive for the number of chapter authors who are nationally recognized experts on various aspects of TBI rehabilitation (e.g., Drs. Prigatano, Malec, Corrigan, Levin, Boake, Diller, Sohlberg, and Cicerone), as well as the broad and inclusive range of topics covered.

scholarly journals Ukrainian ‘Working through the Past’ in the Context of the Polish–Ukrainian Dialogue on Volhynia-43. Asymmetry of Memory

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Julia Rysicz-Szafraniec
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The Past ◽  
Working Through ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Asymmetry ◽  
Main Component

The modern Polish–Ukrainian dialogue is the second interstate dialogue of the twentieth century, in the development of which the historical and political discourses have played an important role. The so-called Volhynia discourse poses the most serious challenge in this dialogue, while at the same time being its main component. The article claims the Volhynia discourse plays a major role in bringing about the asymmetry of historical memory between the two states. The events of Volhynia-43 have remained in Polish historical memory as an act of genocide perpetrated in 1941–1943 by Ukrainian nationalists, mainly from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), on over 100,000 Poles and citizens of the Polish state inhabiting Galicia and Eastern Małopolska, including Volhynia. These territories, considered by the Ukrainian nationalist party OUN as indigenously Ukrainian, were to be included in the future independent Ukrainian state. The Ukrainian historiography, apart from sparse exceptions, avoids the term ‘massacre’ and ‘genocide’ in reference to the events in Volhynia, defining them as a conflict or a Polish–Ukrainian war with a comparable number of casualties on both sides. The article, analysing speeches and announcements by political leaders of Poland and Ukraine, focuses on explaining the causes and effects of this shift in accentuation in the Ukrainian discourse on Volhynia, and, broadly, in Ukraine working through its past.

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