Frictions: Europe, America and global Transformations

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by: Ulf Brunnbauer
Ulf Brunnbauer

Congealed Labor, Canned Fish: From the Adriatic towards a global history of the oil sardine

Ulf Brunnbauer takes us on a journey from the Adriatic to the Pacific, tracing the interconnections of human, environmental and animal actors who shape the global history of capitalism on multiple scales
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by: Igor Stipić
Photo 1: A poster with members of Mapuche people in a classroom of Liceo de Aplicación with the question: Community?Igor Stipić / poster based on creative commons images

People from the Land: A High school story of the Mapuche Indigenous people in Chile

How are radical high school protests, environmental extractivism and indigenous identities entangled in Chile? Igor Stipić offers insights based on his ethnographic research
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by: Melanie Hussinger & Hajo Raupach
Melanie Hussinger

Photo Essay | Herbst der Erinnerung. Partizipatives Gedenken an den Großen Terror | The Autumn of Memory: Participatory Remembrance of the Great Terror (Moscow, October 2021)

How did participatory remembrance of the Great Terror, from family memory to civil society endeavours, fit in Moscow's urban and mnemonic landscape shortly before the war against Ukraine? This photo essay offers moving insights
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by: Joseph Kellner
Hare Krishnas in Moscow, 1990. Image courtesy of Katharina Kucher and her extraordinary image collection, perestroika.visual-history.deImage courtesy of Katharina Kucher and perestroika.visual-history.de

The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Mormons

How did the attractiveness of the Mormon embodiment of US utopian, spiritual and material ideals shift in the turbulent realities of post-Soviet Russia? U Georgia historian Joseph Kellner investigates
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by: Tanja Wagensohn & Paul Vickers
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The Return of Narratives | Conference Report: Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic

What can multiscalar area studies tell us about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world? Read more in this report
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by: Blaze Joel
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Commemorating National Martyrdom through Re-Creating the Past: Vukovar, Prijedor, Derry/Londonderry, and Gernika/Guernica

How do performative recreations across European post-conflict societies help antagonistic memories retain a multi-generational appeal? Berkeley doctoral researcher Blaze Joel investigates
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by: Natali Stegmann
IMAGO / agefotostock

Traditionen europäischer Sozialpolitiken und deren Nicht-Berücksichtigung am Ende des Kalten Krieges: Eine Spurensuche entlang von Arbeit und Gender

How were labour and social relations transformed at the end of the Cold War? What did neoliberal models and the effacement of progressive traditions mean for gender relations?
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by: Kathleen Wroblewski
Leon Wyczółkowski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Silent Rebels and the Resurrection of the Polish Nation | Exhibition analysis by Kathleen Wroblewski

Part of the Law and Justice (PiS) government’s soft power agenda, this recent exhibition features artworks that could undermine its efforts to promote a singular, martyrdom-focused politics of history and national identity.
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by: Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski
IMAGO / ZUMA Wire

Tadeusz Kościuszko, Poland-Lithuania and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

How were efforts to secure US and Polish-Lithuanian independence linked in the Age of Atlantic revolution? And in what ways were attempts to free slaves and emancipate peasants connected? Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski takes us on a transatlantic journey with Tadeusz Kościuszko at the helm
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by: Selbi Durdiyeva
Selbi Durdiyeva

Theorizing binaries through auto-ethnography, method, and commoning: Reflections from the field

Revisiting her fieldwork at a Russian memorial site, the author offers autoethnographic reflections on moving away from imposing academic authority towards the common production of knowledge alongside subjects
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by: Ulf Brunnbauer
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Staatlichkeit und das Mantra des Exports im Jugoslawien der 1970er und 1980er Jahre: Wie der Schiffbau zum Kentern eines sozialistischen Staates beitrug

Was haben Schiffe und der Zerfall Jugoslawiens miteinander zu tun? Mehr als man glauben könnte, so argumentiert Ulf Brunnbauer
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by: Igor Stipić
Mediabanco Agencia - Debate Anatel 15 11 2021; CC BY 2.0

Current Debates | Igor Stipić: Changing Chile’s Historical Cycle or Radical Comprises?

Will “the cradle of neoliberalism” also become its grave, as the new President of Chile promises? Igor Stipić, doctoral researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus, explores the radical compromises Gabriel Borić might need to make as he seeks to guide a society marked by a decade of protests towards democratic stability and fairness.
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