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Beyond the Turnstile

Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values

By: Selma Holo,Mari-Tere Alvarez

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Beyond the Turnstile

Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values

By: Selma Holo,Mari-Tere Alvarez

This handbook of values will help museums of every kind and size articulate their value to their community at a time when economic woes cause even supporters to question their importance.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0759112215

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9780759112216

Remix

Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas

By: Selma Holo,Mari-Tere Alvarez

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Remix

Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas

By: Selma Holo,Mari-Tere Alvarez

Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, ÒpanarchicÓÑnonhierarchical and adaptiveÑvision for museum practice. Selma Holo and Mari-Tere çlvarez offer an unconventional approach, one premised on breaching conventional systems of communication and challenging the dialogues that drive the field. Featuring more than forty authors in and around the museum world, Remix frames a series of vital case studies demonstrating how specific museums, large and small, have profoundly advanced or creatively redefined their goals to meet their ever-changing worlds. Contributors: Piedade Grinberg (Brazil), Nichole Anderson (Canada), Dr. James D. Fleck O.C. (Canada), Vanda Vitali (Canada), Lydia Bendersky (Chile), Andres Navia (Colombia), Manuel Araya-Incera (Costa Rica), Oscar Arias (Costa Rica), Alejandro de Avila Blomberg (Mexico), Marco Barerra Bassols (Mexico), CuauhtŽmoc Camarena Ocampo (Mexico), Miguel Fern‡ndez FŽlix (Mexico), Demian Flores (Mexico), Teresa Morales (Mexico), Nelly Robles (Mexico), Hector Feliciano (Puerto Rico), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Santiago Palomero Plaza (Spain), Maxwell L. Anderson (United States), Susana Bautista (United States), Graham W. J. Beal (United States), Jane Burrell (United States), Thomas P. Campbell (United States), Erica Clark (United States), Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh (United States), Kristina van Dyke (United States), William Fox (United States), Ben Garcia (United States), Ivan Gaskell (United States), Tomas W Hanchett (United States), Richard Koshalek (United States), Clare Kunny (United States), Stephen E. Nash (United States), Joanne Northrup (United States), Jane G. Pisano (United States), Edward Rothstein (United States), Karen Satzman (United States), Lori Starr (United States), Carlos Tortolero (United States), David Wilson (United States), Fred Wilson (United States), Guillermo Barrios (Venezuela), Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (Venezuela) Ê

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Univ of California Press

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0520284526

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9780520284524

Sasha Pechersky

Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History

By: Selma Leydesdorff

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Sasha Pechersky

Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History

By: Selma Leydesdorff

Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. This story of a forgotten hero reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in the West and societies in the former Communist world

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Taylor & Francis

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1351627198

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9781351627191

State Traditions and Language Regimes

By: Linda Cardinal,Selma K. Sonntag

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State Traditions and Language Regimes

By: Linda Cardinal,Selma K. Sonntag

Language policies are political. They have political consequences as well as political origins. In State Traditions and Language Regimes, scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America shift focus from the consequences of language policies to how and why states make language policy choices. This shift, theorized through the concept of "language regime," inserts an urgently needed political science perspective into the current dialogue between sociolinguists, who research the societal effects of language policies, and political theorists of language rights, who analyze the normative implications of policies. New analytical tools drawn from comparative politics are showcased to analyze paths taken by different states in establishing language regimes, at times disrupted and redirected at critical junctures. Contributions to the volume include analyses of Canada's increasingly court-driven language policies, the United States’ bifurcated language regime in the aftermath of 9/11, Ireland’s conflicted protection of the Irish language, France's linguistic Jacobin tradition disrupted by Europeanization, the role of political parties and coalitions in language regime stability and change in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, Poland's war-torn history informing policy toward regional languages, and the role of English in international peace-building. While other books look at the political and societal effects of language policy, none seeks to employ a historical institutionalism approach which sets language policy choice in the context of power relations embedded in state traditions. State Traditions and Language Regimes offers a comparative politics perspective, one that enriches interdisciplinary debate on language policy.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773582940

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9780773582941

Building the Nation

Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan

By: Heather Selma Gregg

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Building the Nation

Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan

By: Heather Selma Gregg

Building the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts to “nation-build” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather Selma Gregg argues that efforts to nation-build in both countries focused more on what should be called state-building, or how to establish a government, rule of law, security forces, and a viable economy. Considerably less attention was paid to what might truly be called nation-building—the process of developing a sense of shared identity, purpose, and destiny among a population within a state’s borders and popular support for the state and its government. According to Gregg, efforts to stabilize states in the modern world require two key factors largely overlooked in Iraq and Afghanistan: popular involvement in the process of rebuilding the state that gives the population ownership of the process and its results and efforts to foster and strengthen national unity. Gregg offers a hypothetical look at how the United States and its allies could have used a population-centric approach to build viable states in Iraq and Afghanistan, focusing on initiatives that would have given the population buy-in and agency. Moving forward, Gregg proposes a six-step program for state and nation-building in the twenty-first century, stressing that these efforts are as much about how state-building is done as they are about specific goals or programs.

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Potomac Books

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1640121404

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9781640121409

We Lived with Dignity

The Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam, 1900-1940

By: Selma Leydesdorff

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We Lived with Dignity

The Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam, 1900-1940

By: Selma Leydesdorff

She found that the processing of practically every interview, every "fact," involved a struggle between reality, distortion, and myth.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814323383

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9780814323380

Beyond the Prado

Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain

By: Selma Reuben Holo

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Beyond the Prado

Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain

By: Selma Reuben Holo

When Francisco Franco’s long dictatorship of Spain ended with his death in 1975, the transitional government set out to create a democracy that celebrated rather than suppressed regional and ethnic diversity. Its success is often described as ‘the Spanish miracle’. The new leadership committed itself to developing institutions that respected and represented Spain’s many cultures and traditions. In Beyond the Prado, Selma Reuben Holo argues that Spanish state and regional leaders consciously used the power of museums to foster democratic identity in the country’s citizens. In case studies such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Sephardic Museum in Toledo, and IVAM, the modern contemporary art Museum in Valencia, Holo tells how museums and their exhibitions have touched off vigorous debates around such issues as Basque autonomy, the relationship of art museums and politics, Catalan identity, and the opposing pull of local and global cultures. Holo chronicles how neglect of the Prado and government acquisition of the renowned Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection have affected Spain’s public image and describes the controversies surrounding Picasso’s Guernica. In their variety and activism, Spanish museums convey an image of a complex democracy that has transformed uncertainty and disagreement into an eccentric postmodern solidarity. Holo suggests that they provide lessons that could be useful elsewhere.

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085323535X

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Beyond the Turnstile

Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values

By: Selma Holo,Mari-Tere Alvarez

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Beyond the Turnstile

Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values

By: Selma Holo,Mari-Tere Alvarez

This handbook of values will help museums of every kind and size articulate their value to their community at a time when economic woes cause even supporters to question their importance.

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Beyond the Turnstile

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Remix

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Sasha Pechersky

Sasha Pechersky

State Traditions and Language Regimes

State Traditions and Language Regimes

Building the Nation

Building the Nation

We Lived with Dignity

We Lived with Dignity

Beyond the Prado

Beyond the Prado

Beyond the Turnstile

Beyond the Turnstile

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