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GI Hans in Korea: Militär und Migration in der deutschen Nachkriegszeit
Get PDFObwohl Krieg, Militär und Migration seit Jahrhunderten eng miteinander verflochten sind, gibt es zum Thema Einwanderer im Militär noch große Forschungslücken. Meistens wird nach dem Zusammenhang von Migration und Militär aus der Sicht des Einwanderungslandes gefragt. Die Forschung zu deutschen Einwanderern in amerikanischen Streitkräften beschränkt sich auf den amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg, obwohl deutschstämmige Amerikaner in allen Konflikten auf amerikanischer Seite gekämpft haben. Dies änderte sich auch nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nicht. Auf der Grundlage von Oral History-Interviews, privater Korrespondenz mit dem Autor, veröffentlichter Diskurse und staatlicher Einzelfallakten beschreibe ich in diesem Artikel einige Aspekte des Migrations-Militär-Nexus am Bespiel deutscher Männer, die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nach Nordamerika ausgewandert sind und dort in den amerikanischen und kanadischen Streitkräften gedient haben. Nach einem kurzen Überblick über die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen nach 1945 und die deutsche USA-Auswanderung der fünfziger Jahre wird zunächst aus der westdeutschen Perspektive geklärt, weshalb deutsche Männer nach 1945 Westdeutschland verließen und wie das Wissen um die amerikanische Wehrpflicht und die Debatte über die Wehrpflicht und ihre Einführung in der Bundesrepublik ihre Entscheidung zur Auswanderung beeinflussten. Sodann werden einige Erfahrungen deutscher Einwanderer als GIs im amerikanischen Militär dargestellt. Abschließend wird gefragt, wie diese auf den ersten Blick kontroverse Konstellation – der Wehrdienst ehemaliger Feinde – privat und gesellschaftlich erinnert wird. Ziel des Artikels ist es, die Beziehungen zwischen Militär und Migration in der Geschichte zu bestimmen und zu klassifizieren. Damit sollen weitere Arbeiten auf diesem Gebiet erleichtert und systematisiert werden.https://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/bios/article/view/3325
Restorying Canada: Multiple Narratives in Progress
Get PDFThis article examines, from two different perspectives, the relationship between historical and literary modes of restorying Canada: first exploring the process by which the country has shaped itself historically since 1867 to become one of the world’s most successful multicultural societies; and second, examining literary and artistic narratives that have had a wide impact on our understanding of what it means to be Canadian, and added a unique layer to our sense of the country’s potential. Basing the analysis on Will Kymlicka’s notion of multiculturalism, and on Jane Urquhart’s fictional text A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects (2016), as well as on Charlotte’s Gray’s historical essay The Promise of Canada. 150 Years – People and Ideas that Have Shaped Our Country (2016), we argue that the 150th anniversary of the Confederation is an ideal moment to re-examine stories, ideas and notions of identity/diversity, political decisions and transformations that shaped modern Canada. Thus, “restorying Canada” brings about bold challenges to conventions of how we remember, invites critique and inclusive alternative narratives.Este artigo explora as relações entre representações históricas, literárias e artísticas do Canadá: de um lado, estudamos discursos sobre a evolução histórica do país desde 1867 - o que leva a uma das sociedades multiculturais mais abertas do planeta; de outro lado, analisamos discursos literários e artísticos que tiveram um grande impacto no modo como imaginamoso país e na polivalência das identidades canadenses. Baseando-se na análise da noção de multiculturalismo de Will Kymlicka, e no texto ficcional de Jane Urquhart, A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects (2016), bem como no ensaio histórico de Charlotte Gray, The Promise of Canada. 150 Years – People and Ideas that Have Shaped Our Country (2016), demostramos que o 150º aniversário da Confederação é um momento ideal para reexaminar os discursos, as ideias e as noções de identidade e de diversidade, bem como as decisões políticas e as transformações que moldaram o Canadá moderno. Assim, "restorying Canadá" traz ousados desafios às convenções de como lembramos, convida à critica e a narrativas inovadoras e inclusivas.https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/interfaces/article/view/1049
Acidic weathering of basalt and basaltic glass: 1. Near-infrared spectra, thermal infrared spectra, and implications for Mars
Get PDFAcid-leached rinds and coatings occur in volcanic environments on Earth and have been
identified using orbital spectroscopy on Mars, but their development is poorly understood. We simulated long-term open-system acidic weathering in a laboratory by repeatedly rinsing and submerging crystalline and glassy basalts in pH ~ 1 and pH ~ 3 acidic solutions for 213 days and compared their visible/near-infrared (0.3–2.5 μm) and thermal infrared (5–50 μm) spectral characteristics to their microscopic physical and chemical properties from scanning electron microscopy (SEM). We find that while alteration at moderately low pH (~3) can produce mineral precipitates from solution, it has very little spectral or physical effect on the underlying parent material. In contrast, alteration at very low pH (~1) results in clear silica spectral signatures for all crystalline samples while glasses exhibit strong blue concave-up near-infrared slopes. SEM indicates that these spectral differences correspond to different modes of alteration. In glass, alteration occurs only at the surface and produces a silica-enriched leached rind, while in more crystalline samples, alteration penetrates the interior to cause dissolution and replacement by silica. We confirm that glass is more stable than crystalline basalt under long-term acidic leaching, suggesting that glass could be enriched and common in terrains on Mars that have been exposed to acidic weathering. Leached glasses are consistent with both
OMEGA and Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) spectra of the Martian northern lowlands and may contribute to the high-silica phases detected globally in TES Surface Type 2. Thus, both glass-rich deposits and acidic weathering may have been widespread on Mars.Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Manitoba Research Innovations Fund, and the University of Winnipeg for supporting the establishment and operation of the Planetary Spectrophotometer Facility…This work was funded in part by the NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS project (Jet Propulsion Laboratory contract #1228404 through Arizona State University) and by the Arizona State University Exploration
Postdoctoral Fellowship.https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2016JE00511
Framing Indigenous Partnerships in Energy and Allied Renewable Resource Sectors. Final Report to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
No full textCanada is a top five global energy producer and thus is in a leadership position with respect to how it engages in international markets and, increasingly, energy partnerships. Growing global energy demand and international firms place demands on Indigenous communities and lands where benefits could exist, but also where local agendas and views may differ from international strategic agreements. Such is the case in the rapidly expanding biomass energy sector, which promises to support low carbon energy options that also support economic development and Indigenous involvement.
Bioenergy is energy derived from any living organisms or by-products (biomass) used to produce energy or fuel (biofuel). Although bioenergy presents a range of advantages (e.g., greenhouse gas displacement, energy self-sufficiency, and regional economic benefits), its widespread use is a point of contention and political debate. The bioenergy industry is often perceived to be competing with food, driving up energy prices, and overstating its environmental benefits.
This research examines how partnerships involving Indigenous groups in Canada and international and domestic partners are framed. In particular, we probe current global-local framings emanating from communities and their partners in energy and forest sectors, and, in particular, how different groups frame bioenergy economic and policy opportunities."This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research Chairs Program, and the Centre for Forest Interdisciplinary Research at The University of Winnipeg.
Skeleton Cave, Leigh Woods, Bristol
Get PDFAn account is given of the discovery and excavation of this small cave in the 1960s. It is recorded that archaeological finds were made, but of these, only a single human mandible can now be traced. Radiocarbon dating shows the specimen to be early Neolithic in age; a metrical analysis was less conclusive.http://www.ubss.org.uk/resources/proceedings/vol27/UBSS_Proc_27_2_197-209.pd
A computational discussion on brain topodynamics: Comment on "Topodynamics of metastable brains" by Arturo Tozzi et al.
Get PDFPreprint version.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157106451730062
Poétique et imaginaires de Montréal dans la littérature québécoise contemporaine
Get PDFLe récit littéraire d’aujourd’hui ne semble plus habiter une ville, mais un palimpseste de villes. «L’esprit migrateur» (Pierre Ouellet) et la rencontre transculturelle» (Patrick Imbert) s’avèrent être les nouvelles conditions de l’imaginaire contemporain. Quels visages de Montréal se déplient dans La Québécoite de Régine Robin et dans La femme qui fuit d’Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette? Comment peut-on arpenter Montréal, se l’approprier, en saisir les secrets? Et quels rapports à la transculture? Si le thème du déplacement s’est largement répandu dans la littérature québécoise depuis les années 1980, sous l’impulsion des écrivains issus de la migration, aujourd’hui, le déplacement n’est plus d’ordre géoculturel, mais de nature symbolique et ontologique. / Contemporary narratives no longer display a singular city but a palimpsest of cities. “L’esprit migrateur” (Pierre Ouellet) and “la rencontre transculturelle” (Patrick Imbert) inhabit the new literary imaginary. What representations of Montreal do texts, such as La Québécoite by Régine Robin and La femme qui fuit by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette present? How can we describe the experience of wandering through the city of Montreal? And what relationships with transculturalism? If the topic of mobility has been common in Quebecois literature since the 1980s, mainly in the works of migrant writers, mobility is not geocultural any more today: it is rather symbolic and ontological.https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/interfaces/article/view/1251
The German Origin of Andreas Flach, of Flocktown, German Valley, Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey
Get PDFThis material is used by permission of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey.While previously known records of Andreas Flach (1711-1779) of Flocktown contain no direct clue as to his place of origin, the basic structure of his family is established by the account in Chambers's Early Germans of New Jersey. In addition, the full name of Andreas's wife, not supplied by Chambers, is given as "Anna Maria Schülerin" in a family Bible record. Recently, it was found that the registers of the Evangelical (i.e. Lutheran) church of Kehl, Baden-Württemberg, Preußen, Germany, reveal clear matches for this family, establishing her identity as Anna Maria Schütterlin (1717-1810)
The Role of NGOs, Non-Profits, and the Government in the Provision of Settlement Services for Canadian Newcomers: A Policy Crisis
Get PDFThe concept of collaboration and consensus building lends itself to the emerging theory of “New Public Governance,” where a shift to horizontal accountability and governance takes over from ideals of vertical power in policymaking. This NPG style of NGO-government relationship allows for increased collaboration and sharing of power, while recognizing the benefits of advocacy on behalf of NGOs. However, the political side of the government is often more important than the public service in regards to the policy process, and political factors outweigh all others, including social and economic ones. Most settlement service agencies are hampered by government ideals, and recently, funding of NGOs and NFP groups who provide services to newcomers comes mostly from the government. The issue here is that with an increasingly neo-liberal political agenda, there is a discouragement of traditional advocacy roles, and the groups seeking funding are often in competition with each other, creating instability for the newcomers who are looking for assistance. Sense of place is lost, and the integration process for immigrants and refugees is firmly in the hands of external parties.Institute of Urban Studie