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The Privilege of Subversion
Full text linkIn this paper, Grabher reads Turner’s liminality in the context of queer political aspirations of LGBT-themed events and the widely discussed transformative potential of event and festivals. Liminality suggests a suspension of hegemonic structures and explorations of alternative models of living. Grabher ethnographically studies the realities of these transformative powers in LGBT-themed events. The week-long event series entitled LGBT50 is used as a case study. A flagship project of Hull’s celebration of the title UK City of Culture (2017), LGBT50 contributes to the ‘365 days of transformative culture’ for the city. Considering cultural actors and visitors, Grabher argues for a nuanced understanding of the potential of liminality as regarded in the LGBT-labelled event. Her analysis suggests that subversive, liminal temporalities continue to be a privilege
Barbara James
No full textDate:1943Barbara was born in Holdredge, Nebraska in the United States of America in 1943. In 1960 she arrived in Darwin working in a variety of occupations such as a journalist, historian, author, activist, advocate and editor. Barbara wrote 13 books including "No Man's Land" which explored the contributions of women in the Northern Territory. She also received a number of awards including 2001 NT Heritage Award, the 2000 NT Literary Essay Awards and the Chief Minister's Women's Achievement Award in 1999.JournalistHistorianAuthorActivistEditorAmerica
Barbara Ras - Sowell Conference 2017
Full text linkBarbara Ras, San Antonio, Poet, author of "Bite Every Sorrow" and "The Last Skin
Exclusive interview with author Barbara Kingsolver
Full text linkExclusive interview with author Barbara Kingsolver for her 2018 novel *Unsheltered
Risky Views:The Future in Postcards
No full textRisky views is a project, which invites to reflect upon potential futures and the influence of artificial intelligence. For this purpose the communication tool of the postcard meets AI-generated image production and hereby combines future imaginations of local population of Salzkammergut with artistic approaches of international mail-art artists. The results are exhibited at the Museum of Writing Bartlhaus in Pettenbach from the 29. June 2025 from 14.00am.The project developed from various initiatives, whose connection was facilitated by the association Kulturvision Salzkammergut. During the celebration of the European Capital of Culture in the Salzkammergut-Region in 2024, the researcher Barbara Grabher (University of Brighton) collected statements by 50 passengers on the local train line regarding their imagination of the future of the region. Multimedia artist Elza Grimm translated selected interview statements with the help of artificial intelligence in a series of six postcards.In order to think these risky views further, the curator of the Museum of Writing Bartlhaus, Angelika Doppelbauer, sent the postcard through her established network of Mail-Art artists, who since the European Capital of Culture celebrations are in contact with the Museum. In an exchange between global and local future imagination, these Mail-Art artists are asked to react to the postcards. The artistic responses are presented in the exhibition
Dataset for publication: Post‐war architecture and urban planning as means of reinventing Opole’s past and identity
No full textThe collection includes files related to the publication: Barbara Szczepańska, Post‐War Architecture and Urban Planning as Means of Reinventing Opole’s Past and Identity, „Urban Planning”, Vol 8, No 1 (2023): Bombed Cities: Legacies of Post-War Planning on the Contemporary Urban and Social Fabric, pp. 266-278, https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v8i1.6079. The collection includes figures used in the publication:Opole_plan A plan of Opole, with areas of Ostrówek (left), Market Square (center) and Central Square (right) highlighted in red. Originally published in: "Guidebook to the city of Opole" ("Przewodnik po mieście Opolu", Opole: Księgarnia Opolska, 1948, https://polona.pl/preview/2f383a4a-5e9e-444d-9e94-366b8ac8610d). Author: Z. Streer. Licence: CC0Opole_Monument to the Opole Silesian Fighters for Freedom A photograph depicting Monument to the Opole Silesian Fighters for Freedom (Pomnik Bojownikom o Wolność Śląska Opolskiego) in Opole. Author: Barbara Szczepańska. Licence: CC0Opole_monument of Kazimierz I Opolczyk A photograph depicting the monument of Kazimierz I Opolczyk in the Market Square in Opole. Author: Barbara Szczepańska. Licence: CC0Opole_Market Square_eastern frontage A photograph depicting eastern frontage of the Market Square in Opole. Author: Barbara Szczepańska. Licence: CC0Opole_Market Square_eastern frontage_before 1945 A photograph depicting eastern frontage of the Market Square in Opole before 1945. Originally published on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Market_Square_in_Opole,_eastern_frontage.jpg. Author: unknown. Licence: CC0Opole_monument of Frederick the Great A photograph depicting monument of Frederick the Great in Opole, before 1945. Originally published on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opole_Oppeln_Denkmal_Friedrich_der_Große.jpg. Author: unknown. Licence: CC0</ul
'A date with Barbara': paracosms of the self in biographies of Barbara Newhall Follett
No full textIn 1927, 13-year-old Barbara Newhall Follett published her first book, the critically acclaimed novel, The House Without Windows and Eepersip's Life There.
Twelve years later, on December 7, 1939, 25-year-old Barbara quarrelled with her husband and left her apartment in Boston with $30 in her pocket, and a notebook. She was never seen again.
The House Without Windows is set in a paracosm (Farksolia) she invented, and ends with the metamorphosis of the titular character into a 'fairy-a wood nymph … invisible for ever to all mortals, save those few who have minds to believe, eyes to see'.
In Barbara's (auto)biography, The Unconscious Autobiography of a Child Genius (1966), written by Harold Grier McCurdy 'in collaboration with Helen Follett' (Barbara's mother), the authors wonder: 'Can we be far wrong in substituting Barbara's name for Eepersip's in the closing scenes of [House Without Windows]?
In this paper, I grapple with the formal and ethical challenges of writing about Barbara Newhall Follett, and the ways her family and others have approached the problem of writing her unresolved life story: a child raised and educated in solitude, a celebrated 'natural' child author, a young woman whose disappearance remains unsolved. The paper will explore the ways in which adults write the stories of children's lives, as nostalgia and fable, as fairytale and paracosmic narrative, and the ways in which Barbara's biographers have, consciously and unconsciously, created biographical concordances, or paracosms of the self, in seeking to make meaning of her life's story
Barbara Ehrenreich: Blood Rites: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Violence
No full textBarbara Ehrenreich, author, social critic and political essayist, discusses the emotional and social aspects of warfare and violence.
Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as a myth buster by trade” and has been called a veteran muckraker by The New Yorker.During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books. Ehrenreich is perhaps best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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