321 research outputs found
Helena Kolody, carbono & diamante: uma biografia ilustrada
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em LiteraturaHelena Kolody, carbono & diamante - uma biografia ilustrada conta a vida da escritora Helena Kolody, a partir de sua inscrição na literatura, questionando sua identidade, o mundo que a cercava e o sentido de sua existência. Equivale a dizer: em sua lírica, reflexões e sentimentos se entretecem a partir de uma matéria pessoal e localizada. Da estação ferroviária à estação tubo; da Ucrânia ao centro de Curitiba; de Paisagem interior a Reika; do século XIX ao século XXI, a literatura de Helena Kolody gerencia sua presença na consolidação do binômio arte-vida. O retrato da autora acaba se constituindo também por meio de farto aparato iconográfico; pelos mais de quinhentos textos críticos elencados e por sua obra completa. Fragmentação deliberadamente assumida, a pessoa se revela em sua inteireza.Helena Kolody, carbon & diamond - an illustrated biography tells the life of Helena Kolody, from her very insertion in literature, as it questions her identity, the world surrounding her, and the meaning of her existence. That is equivalent to saying that in her poetry there is the intermingling of reflections and feelings that derive from personal and localized material. From the railroad station to the tube-shaped bus stops; from Ukraine to downtown Curitiba; from Paisagem interior to Reika; from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, Helena Kolody's literature guarantees her presence in the consolidation of the art/life binomial. The portrait of the author ends up by also being made up of an abundant iconographic apparatus, of the over five hundred critical texts listed, and of her complete work. The person, although deliberately accepting her own fragmentation, reveals herself in her entireness
The significance of definitional dimensions of luxury food
No full textPurpose - An observable shift in food consumption motives for some German consumer segments has created new market potentials for high-priced food items. The purpose of this paper is to empirically show whether and to what extent financial, functional, individual and social dimensions as well as sustainability and authenticity contribute to consumers' perception of the luxury value of food. Design/methodology/approach - The effects of seven exploratory value dimensions on a perceived luxury value for foods were measured using a partial least squares structural equation analysis of a database generated by a survey done on 936 German consumers in summer 2014. Findings - Luxury food was found to serve as a suitable setting to investigate both old and new motives for luxury consumption. The analyses revealed that all factors contribute significantly to luxury value, with functional and individual luxury facets having the strongest effects. Practical and methodological implications can be derived from the results. Research limitations/implications - Limitations are due to the applied methodology. Practical implications - The definitional dimensions of a luxury food value correspond to those for a general luxury good. The significance of two new luxury values, sustainability and authenticity, was confirmed for luxury food. The functional and individual luxury values were found to be the most significant. This supports the previously postulated change in motives for luxury consumption and also mirrors the new emphasis on quality and self-identity in the German food sector. These findings can be utilised in practical food marketing. Originality/value - Although there are major similarities between food and luxury good consumption patterns, how luxury can be defined in the context of food had not been previously investigated empirically. This paper is the first to study the factors that contribute to the luxury value of food
Transient observations : the textualizing of St Helena through five hundred years of colonial discourse
No full textThis thesis explores the textualizing of the South Atlantic island of St Helena (a
British Overseas Territory) through an analysis of the relationship between
colonizing practices and the changing representations of the island and its
inhabitants in a range of colonial 'texts', including historiography, travel writing,
government papers, creative writing, and the fine arts.
Part I situates this thesis within a critical engagement with post-colonial
theory and colonial discourse analysis primarily, as well as with the recent
'linguistic turn' in anthropology and history. In place of post-colonialism's rather
monolithic approach to colonial experiences, I argue for a localised approach to
colonisation, which takes greater account of colonial praxis and of the continuous
re-negotiation and re-constitution of particular colonial situations.
Part II focuses on a number of literary issues by reviewing St Helena's
historiography and literature, and by investigating the range of narrative tropes
employed (largely by travellers) in the textualizing of St Helena, in particular
with respect to recurrent imaginings of the island in terms of an earthly Eden.
Part III examines the nature of colonial 'possession' by tracing the island's
gradual appropriation by the Portuguese, Dutch and English in the sixteenth and
early seventeenth century and the settlement policies pursued by the English
East India Company in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
Part IV provides an account of the changing perceptions, by visitors and
colonial officials alike, of the character of the island's inhabitants (from the late
eighteenth to the early twentieth century) and assesses the influence that these
perceptions have had on the administration of the island and the political status of
its inhabitants (in the mid- to late twentieth century).
Part V, the conclusion, reviews the principal arguments of my thesis by
addressing the political implications of post-colonial theory and of my own
research, while also indicating avenues for further research.
A localised and detailed exploration of colonial discourse over a period of
nearly five hundred years, and a close analysis of a consequently wide range of
colonial 'texts', has confirmed that although colonising practices and
representations are far from monolithic, in the case of St Helena their continuities
are of as much significance as their discontinuities
Citation, Annotation,Translation: Reflections on Italian Feminisms and the Now You Can Go programme
No full textThis lecture focuses on ‘Now You Can Go,’ a two-week long events programme inspired by Italian feminisms of the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s that Helena Reckitt initiated and organised with six feminist colleagues in 2015. Foregrounding the implications of what it means to both curate as feminists and to curate feminist content, the talk explores how practices of transmission, translation and annotation operate as means of intergenerational feminist encounter.
Italian feminisms feature little within Anglo-American accounts of the women’s movement. Yet the tactics that Italian feminists developed, largely through the practices of small groups and collectives, have much to offer contemporary feminism. These practices include autocosziena, the Italian feminist version of consciousness-raising; affidamento/entrustment, in which women form relationships of entrustment with one another that recognise their differences and disparities; non-assimilationist politics that refuse the assumptions inherent to campaigns for equal rights; and the rejection of expected roles and institutional power that Carla Lonzi termed ‘deculturation,’ which she examined in her book Vai Pure, whose English name, ‘Now You Can Go,’ lent the programme its title.
Reckitt describes how the ‘Now You Can Go’ programme developed out of the Feminist Duration Reading Group on under-known feminisms, especially those from Italy, and discusses how programme elements were led by the seven members of a programming team that she initiated. Considering the generative impact of the programme, Reckitt also discusses some of its limitations, which reflect the need to incorporate feminist values into a project that curates feminist content.
The talk considers the practices of artists, theorists and activists including the historical projects of Carla Lonzi, Rivolta Femminile, Milan Women’s Bookshop Collective, Wages For Housework, Teresa de Lauretis, and Gayatri Spivak, and of contemporary practitioners including Claire Fontaine, Kajsa Dahlberg, Laura Guy, Gabrielle Moser, and Nina Wakeford.
Following the presentation, Reckitt later participated in a panel discussion alongside curators and art historians Nkule Mabaso, Lara Perry, Maura Reilly, Dorothee Richter, and Hilary Robinson, chaired by Laura Castagnini
Conference Panel: Documenting the Olympics & Paralympics
No full textThe online panel event Documenting the Olympics & Paralympics is a collaboration between the British Library, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) at De Montfort University, and the British Society of Sports History (BSSH). Originally, this was supposed to be a full day face-to-face event, but due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, that event has been postponed until summer 2021.
This panel discussion reveals more about researchers' experiences when navigating archives, as well as the collection policies related to Olympics/Paralympics of GLAM organisations. There is a broad mix of physical, digitised and born digital resources will be covered in the presentations.
The event is hosted by BSSH Chair, Raf Nicholson and moderated by BSSH Secretary Geoff Levett.
Speaker Abstracts
The Heritage of the Games: Interpreting urban change in Olympic host cities
Dr Laura Alexandra Brown, Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University.
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Hosting an Olympic Games has the potential to deliver long-lasting benefits in host cities: considerably changing image and infrastructure; and accelerating urban development plans. The design of venues able to both accommodate Olympic competitions in the short term and be used by the community in the long-term, poses a major challenge for architects and designers. Whilst some stadia are well used for many years after the events have ended and become an important part of the heritage of the city, others begin to fall into disrepair, disuse or decay after the Games, or are subsequently demolished. This paper seeks to identify the features of design that support the positive long-term function and preservation, or subsequent demolition, of the architecture of the Games: using a mixed methods approach to document, identify, and interpret the development, or degeneration, of Olympic buildings and their urban context over time, through the scrutiny of archival and in-situ data. Exploring concepts of social, cultural and architectural heritage, value and worth, this research explores architecture and photography as complex repositories of time, revealing the role of the archive in developing a comprehensive history of Olympic architecture to benefit Olympic host cities and communities of the future.
Finding Olympic History in Non-Sport Archives
Dr Heather L. Dichter, International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University.
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Much sport history, and especially Olympic history, has been written based on the papers of sport organizations, including organizing committees (OCOGs), and papers from sport leaders. Some sport organizations still maintain their archives, such as the IOC, IPC, many IFs, NOCs, and NGBs (but often as just “files”, not actual archive). Individual people’s papers can be in many locations such as British Library, although in North America and the UK they can often be held at university archives. While all of these type of records from sport organizations directly are of course essential for understanding the Olympics and Paralympics, there is much to be gained from using federal government records, often contained within national archives and, in the case of the US, presidential libraries (which are part of the NARA). What scholars doing this kind of research found: using foreign ministry and other federal government records is revealing on many levels and deepens our understanding of sport history stories we already know. In order to find these kinds of materials in the archives, it is important for researchers to know where to look. Archivists play a valuable role in helping researchers find these materials.
Researching the Olympic and Paralympic Games at Wimbledon
Robert McNicol, Librarian, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.
[email protected]
Lawn tennis was part of the programme at the inaugural modern Olympic Games, held in Athens in 1896. It remained part of the Games until disagreements between the IOC (International Olymic Committee) and ILTF (International Lawn Tennis Association) over the organisation of the tennis event, and over the nature of amateurism, caused it to be removed from the programme before the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.
Tennis returned to the Olympic Games as a demonstration event at the 1968 Games in Mexico City and then again at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, before returning as a full Olympic sport in 1988 in Seoul.
Wimbledon has hosted the Olympic Games tennis event on two occasions, in 1908 and 2012. In 1908, an indoor tennis event was also held, at Queen’s Club, earlier in the year.
For researchers of Olympic tennis, the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum and Kenneth Wimbledon Library can offer many valuable resources, including books, periodicals, programmes and other items from nearly every Olympic tennis tournament. The Museum also holds a huge collection of items collected during the London 2012 Olympic tennis event, held at The All England Lawn Tennis Club.
Many of these items were exhibited the same year in a successful temporary exhibition, which told the story of tennis at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Library’s founder, Alan Little, was a leading scholar of tennis at the Olympic Games was the author of two books on the subject, both of which are part of the Library collection.
This presentation gives a brief history of tennis at the Olympic Games, told through some of the items that form the Museum and Library collections.
Preserving the Olympics/Paralympics online
Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives, British Library.
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The year 2020 was originally an Olympic/Paralympic year before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. It is also a significant milestone for the UK Web Archive and the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC). As it marks 15 years since the first UK Web Archive collections were published and also 10 years since the IIPC first started archiving the Olympics. This presentation gives an overview of some of the various sporting collections held at the British Library, an overview of the UK Web Archive sports collecting policy and what is collected around Olympic and Paralympic events as well as an overview of the IIPC collection policies.
In 2017, the UK Web Archive set up dedicated sports collections. There are three broad collection groups Sports Collection, Sports: Football and Sports: International Events. The subsections of the Sports: International Events includes two summer and two winter Olympic/Paralympic collections from 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. The largest of these collections is the Olympic & Paralympic Games 2012 collection as the Games were hosted in the UK.
The UK Web Archive is made up of the six UK legal deposit libraries, two of those libraries, the British Library and the National Library of Scotland are also members of the IIPC which was founded in 2003. In 2010 the IIPC started its first collaborative collection on the Winter Olympics 2010 and has covered every Olympic/Paralympic Games since. Since the formation of the IIPC Content Development Group (CDG) the collections have started to include a broader range of subjects on and off the playing field
Fronteras en vilo. Un estudio sobre Hot Sur de Laura Restrepo
No full textThe Colombian author Laura Restrepo suggests her last novel, Hot Sur, to be considered as a novel of frontiers. This novel shows the misleading power of the American dream for the Latin-American population, and at the same time, reviews the numerous preconceptions linked to the configuration of the citizens of the South. This paper offers the reader with a hermeneutical analysis of the comparison between the inhabitants of the North versus those of the South, as developed by the author through a crime novel. For this purpose the analysis will focus on two dichotomous motives: the language/the writing and the clean/the dirty, which are proposed as parameters of comparison and coincidence between the two cultures.La escritora colombiana Laura Restrepo propone considerar su última novela, Hot Sur, como una novela de fronteras, por cuanto en ella se ocupa de mostrar lo falaz que resulta el sueño americano para los latinos y, simultáneamente, de revisar los diferentes prejuicios con los que se configura la imagen de los ciudadanos del Sur. Esta afirmación sirve de punto de partida a la lectura hermenéutica que se propone en este artículo, donde se analiza el proceso comparativo entre los del Norte y los del Sur que desarrolla su autora a través de una trama policiaca. El análisis se detiene en dos motivos temáticos de naturaleza dicotómica, el idioma/la escritura y lo limpio/lo sucio, propuestos en la novela como parámetros de diferenciación y de encuentro entre las dos culturas
Erratum to: Is Sensory Loss an Understudied Risk Factor for Frailty? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
No full textIn the article “Is Sensory Loss an Understudied Risk Factor for Frailty? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,” an author was missing. Ana Maseda should be listed as the 11th author. The correct author list is: Benjamin Kye Jyn Tan, Ryan Eyn Kidd Man, Alfred Tau Liang Gan, Eva K Fenwick, Varshini Varadaraj, Bonnielin K Swenor, Preeti Gupta, Tien Yin Wong, Caterina Trevisan, Laura Lorenzo-López, Ana Maseda, José Carlos Millán-Calenti, Carla Helena Augustin Schwanke, Ann Liljas, Soham Al Snih, Yasuharu Tokuda, Ecosse Luc Lamoureux. This error has been corrected
Apuntes sobre historia de la ficción ¿Quién cambiaría la Ilíada por la “verdadera” fuente histórica?. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos Num. 69 (2008) enero-abril
No full textAlgo como la guerra de Troya existió históricamente; de hecho, quizá varias guerras de Troya, pero nos fascina la que Homero escribió alrededor del siglo viii a.C. porque es una ficción. Los arqueólogos ponen en duda el que una guerra haya empezado porque alguien llamado Paris secuestró a alguien llamada Helena en las narices de su esposo griego, o que fue un gran caballo de madera lleno de soldados el que finalmente conquistó el día. Y aquellos dioses especiales, que manejaban la guerra para su propio beneficio al desviar flechas, incitar la ira humana, conmover corazones y controlar la historia, podrían haber tenido a griegos y troyanos en eso por años y años, pero no tienen autoridad en nuestro mundo monoteísta y no han podido encontrarse indicios en las excavaciones del noroeste de Turquía, de donde los arqueólogos extraen restos, huesos y proyectiles de catapultas de lo que pudo haber sido la verdadera Troya
Signifiers and (Re)signifieds: Literacy and Chicano Cultural Trauma in Helena María Viramontess Under the Feet of Jesus (1995)
No full textO presente trabalho propõe uma leitura da temática do letramento e do trauma cultural no romance Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), da autora chicana Helena María Viramontes. Num primeiro momento, nosso estudo se concentra na especificidade de letramento que o romance retrata como força capaz de engendrar mudança social: o letramento completo, que ultrapassa a mera técnica de decodificar e codificar a escrita, despertando a consciência do indivíduo e impulsionando-o a ressignificar seu mundo. Analisamos o processo de aquisição dessa consciência via linguagem pela protagonista Estrella, discutindo também a importância das relações interpessoais para o desenvolvimento da sua agência. Em um segundo momento, traçamos um histórico da formação da etnia chicana a partir da anexação do Texas e da conquista do território mexicano pelos Estados Unidos, no séc. XIX, apontando os traumas presentes nessa história, desde então. Observamos como tais traumas adquirem uma dimensão cultural a partir do Renascimento Chicano impulsionado pelo Movimiento dos anos 1960. Embasados em conceituações teóricas do trauma cultural, discutimos como as personagens lidam com as experiências traumáticas e verificamos que somente Estrella, ao alcançar agência por meio do letramento, é capaz de ressignificar sua história. Concluímos que Estrella é o epítome de toda a etnia chicana e que a ressignificação do trauma que consegue empreender na história ficcional sinaliza a possibilidade e a necessidade de um novo revigoramento dessa comunidade étnica na história real, o que somente é possível por meio de um letramento que conduza a consciência à ação.The purpose of this thesis is to examine the themes of literacy and cultural trauma as they are portrayed in the novel Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), by the Chicana author Helena María Viramontes. Firstly, I focus my study on the specificity of literacy that the story portrays as a force capable of triggering social change, namely, complete literacy, which goes beyond the mere technique of decoding and coding script, since it awakens the individual\'s awareness and makes it possible for him or her to reframe the world. I carry out an analysis of the acquisition of critical awareness by the protagonist Estrella, and I also discuss the importance of interpersonal relationships for the development of her agency. Secondly, I present a succinct history of the formation of the Chicana ethnicity from the annexation of Texas and the conquest of Mexican territory by the United States, in the 19th century, and I point out the traumas permeating this history, since then. Additionally, I discuss how such traumas acquired a cultural dimension during the Chicano Renaissance propelled by the Movimiento in the 1960s. Based on theoretical concepts of cultural trauma, I discuss how the characters in Under the Feet of Jesus cope with traumatic experiences, and I show that only Estrella, upon reaching agency through complete literacy, is capable of resignifying history. Finally, I argue that Estrella is the epitome of the entire Chicana ethnicity, and that the resignification of trauma she carries out in the fictional world is indicative of the need for a reinvigoration of her ethnic community in the real world, which is only possible through a kind of literacy that conjugates awareness and action
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