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Borderlands Identities and Borderlands Ideologies in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop
No full textHaas A. Borderlands Identities and Borderlands Ideologies in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop. American Studies Journal. 2012;57
Data for decision-making: how spatial data is shaping the African urbanisation story
No full textAhead of the 17th Urban Age Conference and the first to be held in Africa, Sebastian Kriticos and Astrid Haas discuss the need for better data to tackle some of Africa’s biggest urbanisation challenges
Where are Kampala's missing houses?
No full textKampala is facing a dearth of affordable formal housing. Rural-urban migration, limited access to mortgage finance, and a host of other factors are all straining its housing sector. It is imperative for planners to think of innovative and sustainable ways to address this issue, argue Astrid Haas and Thierry Hoza Ngoga
Devolve more power to cities: they will need it more than ever
No full textCities with devolved powers can react more quickly to the pandemic. But many don’t have the control they need to respond to shocks. Astrid R.N. Haas and Shahrukh Wani (International Growth Centre) argue that a reluctance by central governments to devolve power is holding them back
Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861
No full textHaas A. Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861. Bridwell Texas history endowment. 1st ed. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press; 2021.Every place is a product of the stories we tell about it—stories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spaces. Lone Star Vistas analyzes travelogues that created the idea of Texas. Focusing on the forty-year period between Mexico’s independence from Spain (1821) and the beginning of the US Civil War, Astrid Haas explores accounts by Anglo-American, Mexican, and German authors—members of the region’s three major settler populations—who recorded their journeys through Texas. They were missionaries, scientists, journalists, emigrants, emigration agents, and military officers and their spouses. They all contributed to the public image of Texas and to debates about the future of the region during a time of political and social transformation. Drawing on sources and scholarship in English, Spanish, and German, Lone Star Vistas is the first comparative study of transnational travel writing on Texas. Haas illuminates continuities and differences across the global encounter with Texas, while also highlighting how individual writers’ particular backgrounds affected their views on nature, white settlement, military engagement, Indigenous resistance, African American slavery, and Christian mission
Astrid Lindgren and the Archives
No full textThe author Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is for many Swedes a genuine national icon. On several occasions, when the most popular and influential Swede is to be announced, Astrid Lindgren’s name is always one of the top names. Astrid Lindgren is for the Swedes known not only as a famous author, but also as a person who spoke out on things she found wrong in the Swedish society. In the history of Swedish literature 1945 is usually regarded as a milestone and Astrid Lindgren’s book Pippi Longstocking was published and revolutionised both children’s literature and the attitude to children and their upbringing. Astrid Lindgren also worked as editor-in-chief for the publishing house Rabén & Sjögren from 1946 to 1970 and for almost a quarter of a century she was responsible for the children’s literature while at the same time she was in practise her own editor. Today, ten years after she passed away 94 years old, her remaining papers, letters and manuscripts are kept in different archives where interesting research can be carried out. There is a substantial amount of material from her rich and prolific life and in this article I wish to illustrate how this material can be used to provide a deeper knowledge of Astrid Lindgren as a person and as an editor.</p
A Changing Game: Ethnicity, Gender, and Nation in the US American Soccer Film
Get PDFHaas A. A Changing Game: Ethnicity, Gender, and Nation in the US American Soccer Film. Comparative American Studies. 2014;12(4):301-315
Un continente ‘de color’: Langston Hughes y América Latina
Get PDFHaas A. Un continente ‘de color’: Langston Hughes y América Latina. FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Studies. 2014;7(2):36-54
Ariane Schröder, Biological Inf(le)ctions of the American Dream: Contagious Disease and Narrative Containment in U.S. American Literature and Culture. Zürich: Lit, 2020
No full textHaas A. Ariane Schröder, Biological Inf(le)ctions of the American Dream: Contagious Disease and Narrative Containment in U.S. American Literature and Culture. Zürich: Lit, 2020. Amerikastudien / American Studies. 2022;67(4):543-545
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