Instead of a Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-220
Author(s):  
Banu Karaca
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Art World ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Western Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Coup Attempt

The concluding chapter turns to more recent encounters between Turkey and Germany in the form of artist exchanges and “intercultural dialogue,” showing how these programs continue to feed into asymmetric perceptions. The chapter reiterates that analyzing the historical entanglements of Turkey and Germany through decivilizing moments unsettles the asymmetric perception between “Western” and “non-Western” art. It argues that the emancipatory potential of art lies in accounting for rather than trying to reconcile the contradictions in the workings of the art world discussed in the study. The postscript surveys some recent developments (2015–2020): the coup attempt, the surge of political violence and war, the curtailing of democratic structures and human rights in Turkey; and the rise of the far right and new museum mega-projects that aim to resurrect a glorious past with colonial collections of questionable provenance in Germany. These developments not only engender attacks on artistic memory but present new iterations of the sway that ideas of “national art” hold in politics. The cases of Istanbul and Berlin continue to provide insights into how—under the impetus of rising nationalism around the world—local formations of the global art world are being called back into the nation frame.

Migration Into Art

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Ring Petersen
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Art World ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The People ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Art

This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international relations: migration as a profoundly world-transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world. It explores contemporary art’s entanglement and critical engagement with migration and globalisation as a key source to improving our understanding of how these processes transform identities, cultures, institutions and geopolitics. Focusing on the interrelations between transcultural identities, the paradoxes of globalisation and the experience of migration as structured by both mobility and settlement, longing and belonging, identification and disidentification, it contributes knowledge about three interwoven issues of enduring interest. Firstly, it is concerned with identity and belonging because migration challenges the identities of the people who migrate but also of the communities where migrants settle. The second set of issues revolves around visibility and recognition. Which impact does increased mobility have on the art world and the careers and works of artists? How have the discursive, structural and artistic changes paved the way for the idea of ‘global art’ and a growing institutional visibility and recognition of artists with a migrant background? Thirdly, the book is concerned with the question of the interrelations between aesthetics and politics and how aesthetics, politics and ethics may be balanced in artistic representations of migration, especially forced migration.

scholarly journals Bombing the news

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
James Painter
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Real Power ◽  
Coup Attempt

In March 1986, when Vinicio Cerezo became Guatemala's first elected civilian president since 1966, there were high hopes that he could bring an end to the political violence which had disfigured the country's recent past. Over two years later, it is plain that he has been unable to wrest real power from the armed forces, and though the human rights situation has improved, there are still numerous reports of disappearances and of violence used by the security forces against people from allwalks of life. Nor have the Guatemalan human rights groups had any satisfaction in response to their demands that those responsible for the thousands of deaths which occurred under previous military governments be brought to justice. Some Guatemalan exiles returned home to take advantage of the promised democratic opening under Cerezo, and attempted to widen the space for political debate. But, as the coup attempt on 11 May showed, the possibilities for such freedoms have again narrowed abruptly. Here a London-based researcher who recently travelled to Guatemala describes the current situation.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-268
Author(s):  
Leyla Neyzi ◽  
Nida Alahmad ◽  
Nina Gren ◽  
Martha Lagace ◽  
Chelsey Ancliffe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The World ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Identity Thinking

Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey, by Salih Can Açıksöz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 272 pp. 19 illus. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-5203-0530-4. For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq, by Ayça Çubukçu. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 240 pp. 7 illus. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-8122-5050-3. Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics, by Ilana Feldman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 320 pp. 20 illus. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-520-29963-4. Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda, by Laura Eramian. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 202 pp. 3 illus. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-78920-493-3. Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right, by Walden Bello. Blackpoint: Fernwood Publishing, 2019. 196 pp. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-77363-221-6. Critique of Identity Thinking, by Michael Jackson. New York: Berghahn Books., 2019. 207 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-1-78920-282-3.

The politics of identity and recognition in the ‘global art world’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Ring Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Art World ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Art ◽  
The Status ◽  
To Come ◽  
Global Art

Questions of cultural identity and the status of non-Western artists in the West have been important to the discourses on the interrelations between contemporary art, migration and globalisation for at least two decades. Chapter 2 considers the connections between the critical discourse on cultural identity, the globalisation of the art world and the adoption of multicultural policies by Western art institutions. It critically engages with the British discourse on ‘New Internationalism’ in the 1990s as well as the wider and more recent discourse on ‘global art’. It is argued that discussions from the last twenty-five years have not only made it clear that institutional multiculturalism is not the answer to the challenge of attaining genuine recognition of non-Western artists in the West, but also revealed that the critical discourse on identity politics has not been able to come up with solutions, either. In fact, it is marred by the same binary thinking and mechanisms of exclusion that it aims to deconstruct. Chapter 2 concludes with two suggestions to how we can get beyond the deadlock of the critical discourse on identity politics.

4. Beyond the dominant orthodoxies

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-135
Author(s):  
Michael Newman
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Democratic Parties ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Social Democratic Parties

Following the collapse of the Soviet bloc, countries around the world struggled to implement their versions of social democracy. ‘Beyond the dominant orthodoxies’ looks at recent developments in China (successful, but too business-oriented and inflexible to be the future of socialism), the UK (weakened by the ‘third way’ of the late 1990s and lack of engagement with political parties), and other European countries (threatened by lack of support for social democratic parties and the rise of the far right). None of the new movements in Spain, Greece, Latin America, or the UK was entirely successful, but many succeeded in embedding elements of socialism in their countries’ politics.

3. A global art history?

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Dana Arnold
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Art History ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Western Art ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Yuan Dynasty ◽  
North And South America ◽  
Global Art ◽  
North And South

Are the practices of Western art history appropriate for the study of art from cultures outside its geographical boundaries and conventional timeframe? The bias in this interpretation of the subject opens up the questions of the importance of the canon in art history and how we view non-figurative, primitive, and naive art. ‘A global art history?’ considers a range of different examples of artistic practice from around the world, including the sculpture of the Dogon people of Mali and the calligraphy of Wu Zhen, who was active during the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). It also discusses what is meant by the ‘primitive’ arts of Oceania, Africa, and North and South America.

Research, Intervention, and Prevention of Children’s Exposure to Political Violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 571-606
Author(s):  
Charles W. Greenbaum ◽  
Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia ◽  
Carolyn Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Enforcement Mechanisms ◽  
Psychosocial Processes ◽  
Children’S Exposure

This chapter reviews the research on the effects of EPV and on the intervention programs contained in this volume, and discusses the theoretical, methodological and ethical issues relating to these reports. In addition, building on the implications of the research for prevention of EPV, the chapter reviews the enforcement gap between international humanitarian and human rights law designed to protect children from EPV and the reality of increasing EPV in the world. It also discusses factors that have led to the enforcement gap, including weaknesses in enforcement mechanisms and psychosocial processes that lead individuals and groups to discount the rights of children. Finally, a we suggest approaches that researchers and practioners in the social sciences and international law could take for protecting children and families from EPV in armed conflict.

scholarly journals Connexions and condensation in the work of Jimmie Durham

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Moiroux
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Other ◽  
Art World ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa

The internationally renowned artist Jimmie Durham, who now lives in Europe,elaborated throughout his career a work of contemporary art which is profoundly rootedin his Cherokee culture, while efficiently engaging the art world which gives him anincreasingly important place (one of the rare such Amerindian artists). His artworkappears to combine: 1. Contemporary art devises and issues as well as western conceptsand viewpoint which he uses and assesses within pieces which are made for a (western)art public, 2. his Cherokee perspective on objects and the world (and 3. his ownpoetics). The condensation of these two perspectives within art pieces is paradoxical, forthey conceive and perceive things and relationships in the world in a priori incompatibleways. Paralleling his work, his own identity or persona is paradoxical, in that on the onehand he defines himself and is considered as an ‘international’ artist, therefore denyingthe ethnic label which has been applied to him in his early career and which he had tofight, and on the other hand he maintains that his only way to be is as a Cherokee. Thecontinuous colonisation and stereotypification of his peoples in the USA, and theirimpossibility to be seen as themselves, which the artist feels deeply, cast light on hisaim to be a “homeless orphan”. Being truly a Cherokee however does not prevent hisbeing an “international artist”, but rather contributes to it, and vice versa.

Human rights issues

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Frank Brennan ◽  
Liz Gwyther
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
Care Development

Despite advances, there are significant deficits in the provision of palliative care around the world. The reasons for these deficits include absent or deficient national policies on pain and palliative care, restrictive opioid laws, and inadequate education of health professionals in the care of people with life-limiting illnesses. Recent developments have recognized palliative care as a fundamental human right. This chapter examines the background and foundation for this concept, the response of the United Nations and other international bodies, and the ways a human rights approach can advance palliative care development of national palliative policies and service provision.

scholarly journals Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang: Perspectives and Responses from the Islamic World and the Middle East

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carson Ezell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Community Impact ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of

There are significant geographical disparities in activism throughout the world with respect to supporting the Uyghur cause against human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region of China. This paper introduces the history of Chinese rule of the Xinjiang region and examines the ways in which the Uyghur diaspora has spread. It then explores how geographical, cultural, economic, and religious relationships between Xinjiang and segments of the international community impact attitudes and levels of activism in response to recent developments in Xinjiang, particularly focusing on the weaker responses in the Middle East relative to the rest of the Islamic community. It then proposes recommendations for regional stakeholders in Middle Eastern civil society to encourage greater support for the Uyghur community.

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