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Queering the Margins: Pedro Lemebel's Loco afan
Get PDFChile has gone from being a society in which gays, transvestites, and lesbians defied established models of sexuality and gender, and as a result were relegated to marginalisation and semi-clandestinity, to being a society into which these formerly excluded groups have been admitted, if only at the level of entertainment, and whose way of life has been captured and administered. This is the transition that Pedro Lemebel captures in his chronicles
Hello Mr Clips
No full textThe author looks at ways in which fictional and fictionalised legal stories shape popular attitudes to the activities of lawyers, judges, police officers, other legal actors, and the functioning of the justice system. Considering scenes from courtroom films as cultural artefacts that that can serve as teaching tools, the author examines how one might analyse films’ impact on their audiences. Article by Paul Bergman, Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA Law School - published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
The war against on-line piracy
No full textA summary by Julian Harris, Deputy General Editor Amicus Curiae, of US attempts to control what it identifies as rogue Internet sites engaged in on-line piracy and opposition to such legislative moves
Henri Frankfort, Aby Warburg and ‘Mythopoeic Thought’
No full textThis is the text of a lunchtime lecture given at the Warburg Institute in the spring of 2004. It formed part of a series given by current members of staff which were devoted to the work of past Warburg scholars, and was intended to introduce the audience - fellows, students and readers at the Warburg - to the work of Henri Frankfort, Director of the Institute from 1949 to 1954. Since Frankfort's interests were very distant from those of the Institute today, his life and work had largely been forgotten by modern Warburgians, and the first third of the lecture was of necessity a rapid account of his career. The remainder of the lecture is an analysis and criticism of the concept of 'primitive thinking' in the work of Frankfort and Aby Warburg. To have rewritten the lecture as an article, taking into account the voluminous literature on Warburg, would have taken more time than I currently have available, and I thank Richard Woodfield for allowing me to publish it in this unrevised form. While the Warburg literature continues to expand apace - see Warburg 2010 for recent references - Frankfort is still undeservedly neglected; the most substantial study to date is Wengrow 1999
My cautious optimism for Zimbabwe’s 2012 elections
No full textIn this Opinion, prominent Zimbabwean civil society activist Briggs Bomba argues that 2012 could to be a decisive
year in Zimbabwe’s recent history. A number of domestic and international factors could come together to force the
regime to hold democratic elections, and the transformed international scene – with the influence of the Arab spring
and the NATO-led Libyan intervention – could create an auspicious environment for the country’s long-awaited
transition. Bomba also insists that the continued pressure from Zimbabwe’s vibrant civil society organisations is vital
for the real democratisation of Zimbabwe’s institutions. For any transition to become truly meaningful it ‘must be
completed in the hard years after democratic election’
The East Asian Journal of British History, vol. 1
Get PDFThe East Asian Journal of British History is produced by the East Asian Society of British History, and supported by the Institute for Historical Research.
The Institute of Historical Research is pleased and proud to be supporting this recent addition to British history scholarship. Developing out of the IHR’s long-standing collaborative partnership with Japanese universities, and now in its fourth year, the East Asian Journal of British History features some of the best emergent scholarship from Anglophone historians working in China, Japan, and South Korea.
Divided between an articles section and one devoted to reviews, the journal’s remit wide-ranging covering all fields and periods of British history. It complements the triennial Anglo-Japanese Conference organised by the IHR and Japanese historians based at the universities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, and the conference of the East Asian Society of British history, in which we are joined by our colleagues from South Korea. In future, we hope that more contributions will be featured in the journal from the Chinese mainland and from Taiwan
The M.S. Anderson Collection of Writings on Russia Printed Between 1525 and 1917: An Introduction
Get PDFFlare Index to Treaties Extended
No full textArticle describing work to extend the coverage of the Flare Index to Treaties at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies to include key multilateral treaties from 1353 onwards and, in addition, key bilateral treaties from 1353 to 1815. The Flare Index to Treaties is a freely available, searchable database of basic information on over 2,000 of the most significant multilateral treaties and some bilateral treaties concluded between 1353 and the present, with details of where the full text of each treaty may be obtained in paper and, if available, electronic form on the Internet
Brave New World: Imperial and Democratic Nation-Building in Britain between the Wars
No full textAfter WWI, Britain faced a number of challenges as it sought to adapt to domestic conditions of mass democracy whilst maintaining its position in the empire in the face of national independence movements. As politicians at home and abroad sought to legitimise their position, new efforts were made to conceptualise nationality and citizenship, with attempts to engage the public using mass media and greater emphasis on governing in the public interest.
Brave New World reappraises the domestic and imperial history of Britain in the inter-war period, investigating how ‘nation building’ was given renewed impetus by the upheavals of the First World War. The essays in this collection address how new technologies and approaches to governance were used to forge new national identities both at home and in the empire, covering a wide range of issues from the representation of empire on film to the convergence of politics and ‘star culture’.
The book is an invaluable resource for scholars of British social, political and imperial history, as well as being of interest to the general reader