Conclusion: Individuals, Families, and Nation

2019 ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
Niamh Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Miracle ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Modern Identity

At the heart of the book are intimate experiences and ordinary lives. The evidence amassed, especially in Chapters 3–5, also tells us a little and perhaps even a lot about how Italians were coming to view themselves as a nation. By the 1960s, Italy had cast off the shadow of fascism and begun to project itself as a self-confident, modern country. This concluding chapter offers some thoughts on how love, honour, and jealousy were not just personal experiences but part of the national stories that Italians told about themselves, in an effort to forge a modern identity to suit the new Italy of the economic miracle.

Japanese Historical Writing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
To Come ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter shows how in Japan, the year 1945 represented a change of a very different kind. Japanese historians now repudiated the ultranationalist historiography of the 1930s and early 1940s, and turned in significant numbers towards Marxism, which rapidly achieved a kind of hegemony. They criticized the master narrative of the post-Meiji past, centered on the Tennō (emperor), and identified it with Fascism as a failed experiment in modernity. In the 1960s, however, this Marxist historiographical dominance was gradually supplanted by a pluralism of competing approaches. Modernization theory, social science methodologies, and ‘history from below’ coexisted, and historians, inspired by the Japanese economic miracle, tried to come to terms with the fact that Japan’s traditions, long perceived as an obstacle to modernization, actually seemed to foster it.

The Brazilian Economic ‘Miracle’ and Regional Policy: Some Evidence from the Urban Northeast

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Significant Deterioration ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Benefits And Costs

The so-called Brazilian economic ‘miracle’ has provoked a heated debate on the distribution between different socio-economic groups of the benefits and costs incurred in rapid income growth. This debate has clarified several empirical issues, notably the marked concentration of the personal income distribution and its significant deterioration in the 1960s.

scholarly journals John Lennon, autograph hound: The fan-musician community in Hamburg's early rock-and-roll scene, 1960–65

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Sneeringer
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Space ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores the Beat music scene in Hamburg, West Germany, in the early 1960s. This scene became famous for its role in incubating the Beatles, who played over 250 nights there in 1960–62, but this article focuses on the prominent role of fans in this scene. Here fans were welcomed by bands and club owners as cocreators of a scene that offered respite from the prevailing conformism of West Germany during the Economic Miracle. This scene, born at the confluence of commercial and subcultural impulses, was also instrumental in transforming rock and roll from a working-class niche product to a cross-class lingua franca for youth. It was also a key element in West Germany's broader processes of democratization during the 1960s, opening up social space in which the meanings of authority, respectability, and democracy itself could be questioned and reworked.

Trailblazing a Movement

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Mary Roaf
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Black Student ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Student Union ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The 1960S

This essay includes an interview with Black Student Union co-founders Jerry Varnado and James Garrett in which they reflect on their leadership roles and personal experiences at San Francisco State in the 1960s as well as the events around the student-led strike and subsequent founding of the School of Ethnic Studies. They also discuss their wider activism and community engagement in the field of Ethnic Studies as well as their thoughts on the direction of the field today.

scholarly journals Ambivalence: The Divided Self in Sylvia Plath's Poetry

IIUC Studies ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Mohd Yasin Sharif
Keyword(s):  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Divided Self ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Mixed Good

Ambivalence, mixed good and bad feelings about particular entity, individual or circumstance, became a ruling passion in Sylvia Plath's life. These ambivalence and breakdown are closely dealt with in her poems. Confessional poets usually reveal their own personal experiences without straining excruciating sentiment. Sylvia Plath, one of the 1960s most influential confessional poets used the same resentment and anguish that developed from her personal grief as the subject of many of her poems. SP is well known among the celebrities for her ambivalence schizophrenic, schizoid and paranoid nature. As an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, ambivalence dominated both her works as well as her life. This ambivalent personality of SP made her and her works obscure and bizarre to the readers. Many of her poems bear the evidence of narcissism, self-hatred, deep attachment and simultaneously deep hatred towards her dear and near ones. The present study is an endeavor to interpret this complex ambivalent personality of SP in light of her poems, her journals and her letters where she clearly confesses all her neurotic obsessed activities directly, honestly and sincerely without any hesitation. The study will also dug out the true logical reasons that lead to the suicide of a blooming star in her make up.   doi: 10.3329/iiucs.v3i0.2628 IIUC STUDIES Vol. - 3, December 2006 (p 7-18)

First Movers and the Growth of Small Industry in Northeastern Italy

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Public Debt ◽  
The United States ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
High Inflation ◽  
Oil Shock ◽  
Northeastern Italy ◽  
Small Industry ◽  
The 1960S

In the 1970s, Italy's economy grew faster than all in the industrialized world but Japan's. Its growth rates of up to 5 percent, although lower than in the 1960s, compared favorably to the relatively flat figures from Britain, Germany, and the United States, most strikingly in the two years after the second oil shock of 1979. Following its first “economic miracle” in the 1950s and 1960s, wrote The Economist, Italy's “second, lesser miracle” was how the country continued to thrive in the 1970s despite a “bumbling bureaucracy,” ineffective governments, high inflation and public debt, terrorism, and “the left-wing unions’ greedy, if understandable, reaction to the headlong development of the 1960s.” Italy's rapid growth was all the more impressive in light of the ongoing economic stagnation of the South and a general crisis in the big corporations of Lombardy and Piedmont, which had been dragged down by high oil prices, recession abroad, and indexed wages.

scholarly journals Personal Experiences in Post-Shoah Greece: The Case of Isaak Menahem Rousso

HISTOREIN ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Droumpouki
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Individual ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Jewish Survivors

In December 1971, twelve years after his first letter to the West German government, 73-year-old Isaak Menahem Rousso exclaimed: “I ask you, what did I do to you for you to destroy my wealth, my shops? You killed my parents, and now you want to pay me a pittance”? The article focuses on the individual struggle of a Jewish survivor to receive compensation from the Federal Republic of Germany, as can be traced in the personal archive of Isaak Menahem Rousso. It examines the numerous letters he sent to German officials during the 1960s and 1970s, documents and contextualises his feelings of despair, fear and anger, and elucidates upon them. These feelings are typical for the Greek Jewish survivors that sought compensation. Survivors complained that the claims evaluation process constituted an unpleasant and inhumane experience. Many found it very difficult to return to the past and remember their suffering, as some of them already felt guilt or shame for having survived, not to mention the pain that reliving these traumatic experiences incurred. Many victims suffered from post-traumatic disorders and it was not easy to revive these experiences. Through Isaak Menahems’ story, I want to explore the survivors’ feelings in their search for recognition and compensation.

Ghana-Korea Economic Relations – The Record after 40 Years and the Future

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 6-39
Author(s):  
Lloyd G. Adu Amoah ◽  
Kwasi Asante
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
West African ◽  
African Nation ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Economic Relationship ◽  
The 1960S

Abstract Over the last sixty years the economic and industrial fortunes of Ghana and Korea have proved worryingly divergent. Though Ghana and South Korea had comparatively similar GDP per capita in the 1960s, South Korea in 20171 ($29,742.839) has been able to attain a GDP per capita that is about ten times that of Ghana ($1,641.487). This work critically examines the economic relationship between Ghana and South Korea in the last forty years. It focuses on the economic miracle of South Korea and the lessons for developing countries like Ghana. The article utilizes economic, historical and policy data drawn from primary and secondary sources in an attempt to examine the economic relations between the two countries thus far and prescribe ways in which Ghana can benefit far more than ever before from her economic co-operation with Korea. The paper argues that for Ghana to benefit from its economic relations with South Korea the ideational example of this East Asian state in constructing a developmental state (DS) is critical. Flowing from this, it is recommended that this West African nation becomes more diligent and innovative in her economic relations with Korea as a matter of strategic necessity in pursuit of Ghana’s long held industrialization dream.

Crisis and Dysfunction of Spatial Development and Management in Taiwan

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
T-L Chou
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Economic Perspectives ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Development And Management

Based upon the development of export-oriented industrialization (EOI), Taiwan has undergone a well-known economic miracle, especially since the 1960s when the capitalist world entered a deep Fordist crisis. Nevertheless, the EOI development was imbued with development contradictions, and caused crisis and dysfunction in Taiwan's spatial development and management. The author aims to analyze this crisis and dysfunction from political-economic perspectives, by discerning how the state intervened in spatial development and management along with the development of EOI. As the author demonstrates, the state manipulates the crisis and dysfunction of the planning mechanism to satisfy the political-economic requirements of Taiwan's EOI development. EOI development provided good environments for capital accumulation, but led to poor living conditions. The environmental results have brought Taiwan much wider political, social, and economic tensions, and have made increasingly unlikely the possibility of constructing a social coalition of sustainable development. The author contends that it is time for Taiwan to reorganise the development of EOI before the current crisis becomes destructive.

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