Book Reviews: Formations of Class and Gender, Single Mothers in an International Context: Mothers or Workers?, Introducing Contemporary Feminist Thought, Cultural Studies in Question, Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media Power, The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way of Learning, Realistic Evaluation, Modern Social Theory: Key Debates and New Directions, The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization, Risk and Misfortune: The Social Construction of Accidents, Geographies of Resistance, Drawing Support: Murals in the North of Ireland, Drawing Support 2: Murals of War and Peace, The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain, Cynicism and Postmodernity

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-184
Author(s):  
Mike Savage ◽  
Steph Lawler ◽  
Jo VanEvery ◽  
Lisa Taylor ◽  
Nick Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
International Context ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
New Directions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Media Power

scholarly journals The Collected Works of Charlotte Evans  1841-1882  Introduction and Biography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Anne Doreen Brown
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Literary Output ◽  
Archive Material

<p>This thesis provides an introductory view of the life and works of early New Zealand romantic novelist Charlotte Evans 1841-1882. The work is comprised of three separate sections, including two introductions, a biographical essay and footnoting and markup for digitisation. Evans wrote short stories in addition to novels and poetry. I have attempted to create here a useful and informative overview of her two published novels Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand and A Strange Friendship: A Story of New Zealand - each of which were published in 1874. In the biographical essay I include a discussion of Evans’ general works, in particular the collection of poetry published by her husband Eyre Evans in 1917 entitled Poetic Gems of Sacred Thought. An important feature of the thesis has been to establish how Evans’ range of literary output may be cited and contextualised within New Zealand’s literary heritage in more detail than has previously been available. A significant aspect of the research has, in addition, involved examining the social and historical influences surrounding the author, both prior to and at the time of writing. In that respect the discussion has drawn upon available materials, such as book reviews and items published in newspapers. An appendix has been compiled of selected published poetry and articles from the North Otago Times of relevance to the foregoing text discussion. Contemporary photographs of Evans and map material of the ‘Teaneraki’ district are also included. It is hoped that situating the research evidence to specifically New Zealand contexts may provide a basis for positing Evans’ works more fully as New Zealand texts in their overall relation to pioneer period fiction. An important feature of the project has therefore meant developing a foundation of historical work concerning the author, much of which has been sourced from the National Alexander Turnbull Library and recently published family history that draws upon archive material related to the Evans and Lees families. Due reference to a range of recent critical texts has also, it is further hoped, enabled a more in-depth and detailed response to Evans’ contribution to the developing field of New Zealand literature and more specifically, Victorian Studies.</p>

Ossip K. Flechtheim (1909-1998)

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-248
Author(s):  
Mario Keßler
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Social Democratic Party ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Green Party ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social

The political scientist Ossip Kurt Flechtheim (1909-1998) lived in different countries on both sides of the Atlantic: Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States. He specialized in various fields of research: contemporary history, political science, and future studies, and he taught and wrote in several languages. Flechtheim belonged to three different parties of the left: before 1933 he was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his return to Berlin in 1952 he had joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which he then left in 1962. From 1979 until his death Flechtheim was a member of the Alternative Liste that was part of the ecological Green Party. Flechtheim’s work, which includes nearly twenty books and a great number of edited volumes, is devoted to crucial problems of the twentieth and the twenty-first century: to war and peace, democracy and dictatorship, fascism and anti-fascism, the north-south conflict, and capitalism and Communism in its various forms. The last chapter of the volume gives a biographical overview and tries to explain how Flechtheim’s life’s path between Europe and America influenced his thinking as a versatile scholar and radical socialist.

scholarly journals De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Santos ◽  
Sílvia Roque ◽  
Sofia José Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Constructions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This article focuses on media representations of ‘the South in the North’ crosscutting the European mediascape in 2015 and the beginning of 2016. Assuming that both identities and perceptions of in/security are socially constructed, particularly by means of discourse, that security is gendered and gender constructions are in turn built on dynamics of in/security, and that gendered power relations and representations are always entangled with other structures of inequality and domination such as racism, this article argues that gendered categories of othering in the media’s representations have been critical to produce and justify 1) hegemonic narratives of securitisation that aim to protect an imagined European identity and 2) counter-narratives denouncing the racial and cultural discrimination tied to the ‘North’s’ hegemonic representations of refugees. Theoretically, the article proposes a dialogue among critical, feminist, and postcolonial peace and security studies. Methodologically, it analyses through discourse analysis three highly mediatised cases by examining the social representations of the refugees, namely their gendered components put forward by representative European media outlets based in the UK. It explores their implications in terms of the consolidation of stereotypes and hierarchies of suffering according to criteria of credibility/suspicion and vulnerability/threat, and identifies some examples of media counter-narratives on refugee flows through specific gendered and racialised representations.

scholarly journals The Collected Works of Charlotte Evans  1841-1882  Introduction and Biography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Anne Doreen Brown
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Literary Output ◽  
Archive Material

<p>This thesis provides an introductory view of the life and works of early New Zealand romantic novelist Charlotte Evans 1841-1882. The work is comprised of three separate sections, including two introductions, a biographical essay and footnoting and markup for digitisation. Evans wrote short stories in addition to novels and poetry. I have attempted to create here a useful and informative overview of her two published novels Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand and A Strange Friendship: A Story of New Zealand - each of which were published in 1874. In the biographical essay I include a discussion of Evans’ general works, in particular the collection of poetry published by her husband Eyre Evans in 1917 entitled Poetic Gems of Sacred Thought. An important feature of the thesis has been to establish how Evans’ range of literary output may be cited and contextualised within New Zealand’s literary heritage in more detail than has previously been available. A significant aspect of the research has, in addition, involved examining the social and historical influences surrounding the author, both prior to and at the time of writing. In that respect the discussion has drawn upon available materials, such as book reviews and items published in newspapers. An appendix has been compiled of selected published poetry and articles from the North Otago Times of relevance to the foregoing text discussion. Contemporary photographs of Evans and map material of the ‘Teaneraki’ district are also included. It is hoped that situating the research evidence to specifically New Zealand contexts may provide a basis for positing Evans’ works more fully as New Zealand texts in their overall relation to pioneer period fiction. An important feature of the project has therefore meant developing a foundation of historical work concerning the author, much of which has been sourced from the National Alexander Turnbull Library and recently published family history that draws upon archive material related to the Evans and Lees families. Due reference to a range of recent critical texts has also, it is further hoped, enabled a more in-depth and detailed response to Evans’ contribution to the developing field of New Zealand literature and more specifically, Victorian Studies.</p>

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