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The Revolution before the Revolution
Histories of Portugal's transition to democracy have long focused on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation's colonial holdings. However, the events of this \"Carnation Revolution\" were in many ways the culmination of a much longer process of resistance and protest originating in universities and other sectors of society. Combining careful research in police, government, and student archives with insights from social movement theory, The Revolution before the Revolution broadens our understanding of Portuguese democratization by tracing the societal convulsions that preceded it over the course of the \"long 1960s.\"
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Marcel Pagnol
This comprehensive overview of Marcel Pagnol's career highlights his unique place in French cinema as a self-sufficient writer-producer-director and his contribution to the long-term evolution of filmmaking in a broader European context.
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Divided Cyprus : modernity, history, and an island in conflict
[U]shers the reader into the complexities of the categorical
ambiguity of Cyprus [and]... concentrates... on the Dead Zone of the divided
society, in the cultural space where those who refuse to go to the poles
gather. -- Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley College The
volatile recent past of Cyprus has turned this island from the idyllic island
of Aphrodite of tourist literature into a place renowned for hostile
confrontations. Cyprus challenges familiar binary divisions, between Christianity
and Islam, Greeks and Turks, Europe and the East, tradition and modernity.
Anti-colonial struggles, the divisive effects of ethnic nationalism, war, invasion,
territorial division, and population displacements are all facets of the notorious
Cyprus Problem. Incorporating the most up-to-date social and cultural research on
Cyprus, these essays examine nationalism and interethnic relations, Cyprus and the
European Union, the impact of immigration, and the effects of tourism and
international environmental movements, among other topics.
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Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War
Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War is
one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the
Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own
original field research as well as on Colombian scholars' work in
Spanish to provide an expansive view of the country's political
conflicts. Steele shows how political reforms in the context of
Colombia's ongoing civil war produced unexpected, dramatic
consequences: democratic elections revealed Colombian citizens'
political loyalties and allowed counterinsurgent armed groups to
implement political cleansing against civilians perceived as loyal
to insurgents.
Combining evidence collected from remote archives, more than two
hundred interviews, and quantitative data from the government's
displacement registry, Steele connects Colombia's political
development and the course of its civil war to purposeful
displacement. By introducing the concepts of collective targeting
and political cleansing, Steele extends what we already know about
patterns of ethnic cleansing to cases where expulsion of civilians
from their communities is based on nonethnic traits.
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The Politics of Majority Nationalism
What drives the politics of majority nationalism during crises, stalemates and peace mediations? In his innovative study of majority nationalism, Neophytos Loizides answers this important question by investigating how peacemakers succeed or fail in transforming the language of ethnic nationalism and war. The Politics of Majority Nationalism focuses on the contemporary politics of the 'post-Ottoman neighborhood' to explore conflict management in Greece and Turkey while extending its arguments to Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine. Drawing on systematic coding of parliamentary debates, new datasets and elite interviews, the book analyses and explains the under-emphasized linkages between institutions, symbols, and framing processes that enable or restrict the choice of peace. Emphasizing the constraints societies face when trapped in antagonistic frames, Loizides argues wisely mediated institutional arrangements can allow peacemaking to progress.
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Dangerous Citizens
This book simultaneously tells a story?or rather, stories?and a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of Greek dissidents were detained and tortured in prisons, places of exile, and concentration camps. They were sometimes held for decades, in subhuman conditions of toil and deprivation.The history is that of how the Greek Left was constituted by the Greek state as a zone of danger. Legislation put in place in the early twentieth century postulated this zone. Once the zone was created, there was always the possibility?which came to be a horrific reality after the Greek Civil War of 1946 to 1949?that the state would populate it with its own citizens. Indeed, the Greek state started to do so in 1929, by identifying ever-increasing numbers of citizens as ?Leftists? and persecuting them with means extending from indefinite detention to execution. In a striking departure from conventional treatments, Neni Panourgiá places the Civil War in a larger historical context, within ruptures that have marked Greek society for centuries. She begins the story in 1929, when the Greek state set up numerous exile camps on isolated islands in the Greek archipelago. The legal justification for these camps drew upon laws reaching back to 1871?originally directed at controlling ?brigands??that allowed the death penalty for those accused and the banishment of their family members and anyone helping to conceal them. She ends with the 2004 trial of the Revolutionary Organization 17 November.Drawing on years of fieldwork, Panourgiá uses ethnographic interviews, archival material, unpublished personal narratives, and memoirs of political prisoners and dissidents to piece together the various microhistories of a generation, stories that reveal how the modern Greek citizen was created as a fraught political subject.Her book does more than give voice to feelings and experiences suppressed for decades. It establishes a history for the notion of indefinite detention that appeared as a legal innovation with the Bush administration. Part of its roots, Panourgiá shows, lie in the laboratory that Greece provided for neo-colonialism after the Truman Doctrine and under the Marshall Plan.
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