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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Aaron Swartz’s Legacy (Academe, 2014) in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 7 years ago“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Towards a theory of prefigurative practices in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoChapter in Post-Dance, Edited by Danjel Andersson, Mette Edvarsdsen and Mårten Spångberg. MDT, 2017.
ISBN 978-91-983891-0-4. Based on materials from the workshop ‘Nor Culture Nor Art’, with Mårten Spångberg and Vanessa Ohlraum, at Learning Plays. A School of School, Impulse Theatre Festival in collaboration with Ringlokschuppen Ruhr. Mülheim…[Read more] -
Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Unten werden. Zum Ethos der Ontologie des Mitseins von Jean-Luc Nancy in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSummary: The Left faces an essential challenge: How can one powerful, non-arbitrary movement from below constitute itself while simultaneously being plural in nature? Different concepts, like the multitude and the left mosaic, have extensively been discussed in regard to this question. With this chapter I contribute to these debates in exploring…[Read more]
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Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Auf neuen Wegen des Aufstands? Zum Anarchismus in der zeitgenössischen Geographie – eine Sammelrezension in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoIn dieser Sammelrezension wird die Sammelband-Trilogie ‘Anarchism, Geography and The Spirit of Revolt’ besprochen und deren Beitrag zur ‘Radical Geography’ diskutiert. Dabei werden insbesondere jene Tendenzen der Trilogie kritisiert, die darauf abzielen anarchistische Ansätze in der Geographie als hegemoniales Projekt zu positionieren. Ist ein…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoAmazing! Didn’t hear about it. On the El País article, the photo of a doctor treating a man: I’m pretty sure that’s Dr. Reginald Saxton, who developed a mobile infrastructure for blood transfusion in the SCW. We have his papers in the Marx Memorial Library, including a diary he kept–more like a block for note taking, with many illegible bits but…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello! I’m Mariana, based in London, and since last October I’ve been working at the Marx Memorial Library, cataloguing the Spanish Collection: a major archive that includes the whole archive from the International Brigade Association/International Brigade Memorial Trust. I’ve been dealing mostly with the collection of 500+ pamphlets: aprox. half…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello Anne, I’ve just joined the group so the reply comes very late. I have read The Winterlings and loved it. It’s really my type of fiction. Have you read it in the end?
That said, I wonder why the author decided to suggest that Spanish/Basque children may have suffered or been exploited in their time as refugees in the UK? In the Marx Memorial…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoAlso here in the UK, the University of Warwick has an archive on the Spanish Civil War from papers of the Trades Union Congress. They are all digitised which is quite amazing. My favourite items are in Spanish Situation: Pamphlets, leaflets etc.
Attached is cover of pamphlet by the Labour Party, one that we also hold at the MML. I find it…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI’m working at the Marx Memorial Library in London. The library is home to the Spanish Collection, which is an archive of more than 7000 items, initially gathered by British International Brigaders and their families. We have just completed cataloguing the collection thanks to a grant from the National Archives (link below). Only very few items…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoI noticed we have some new members. Welcome! Please feel free to introduce yourselves. I’d love to hear what people are working on.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCongratulations! That’s fantastic news.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoI am happy to announce that my book International Communism and the Spanish Civil War is now available in paperback.
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Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Auf neuen Wegen des Aufstands? Zum Anarchismus in der zeitgenössischen Geographie – eine Sammelrezension in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEs wird hier die ‘Anarchism, Geography and The Spirit of Revolt’ Triologie besprochen und deren Beitrag zur Anarchistischen Geographie diskutiert. Dabei werden vor allem die Tendenzen kritisiert, die dazu beitragen anarchistische Ansätze in der Geographie als hegemoniales Projekt zu positionieren. Ist ein solches Unterfangen wirklich ein neuer…[Read more]
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Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Auf neuen Wegen des Aufstands? Zum Anarchismus in der zeitgenössischen Geographie – eine Sammelrezension in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEs wird hier die ‘Anarchism, Geography and The Spirit of Revolt’ Triologie besprochen und deren Beitrag zur Anarchistischen Geographie diskutiert. Dabei werden vor allem die Tendenzen kritisiert, die dazu beitragen anarchistische Ansätze in der Geographie als hegemoniales Projekt zu positionieren. Ist ein solches Unterfangen wirklich ein neuer…[Read more]
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Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Auf neuen Wegen des Aufstands? Zum Anarchismus in der zeitgenössischen Geographie – eine Sammelrezension in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEs wird hier die ‘Anarchism, Geography and The Spirit of Revolt’ Triologie besprochen und deren Beitrag zur Anarchistischen Geographie diskutiert. Dabei werden vor allem die Tendenzen kritisiert, die dazu beitragen anarchistische Ansätze in der Geographie als hegemoniales Projekt zu positionieren. Ist ein solches Unterfangen wirklich ein neuer…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI’m interested to hear what people have been reading lately. Today I’m reading Bécquer Seguín’s Spanish Civil Wars in Public Books:
To see Iberia instead of Spain, then, is to take the long view of history. To write an Iberian Civil War novel is to spend less time on the exceptionalness of the war itself than on how that moment places the lo…
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi Anne- I’m still gathering information and reading about Kea. Nothing in the works yet. I look forward to seeing the anthology on Black Women’s Internationalism! sounds great.
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoI recently listened to the International Communism and the Spanish Civil War episode of @sguillory‘s Sean’s Russia Blog Podcast, featuring @lkirschenb! It was excellent–I highly recommend it: http://seansrussiablog.org/2017/07/07/international-communism-and-the-spanish-civil-war/
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Thanks, Anne! Glad you enjoyed it.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoOh, that’s so great to hear! Are you writing about Kea? I’m finalizing a chapter for an anthology on Black Women’s Internationalism about black women’s life writing and the Spanish Civil War that discusses the ambulance fundraising tour around the south & midwest of the US that Kea & Thyra Edwards undertook in 1938 (and Edwards’s scrapbook…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAnne- I have your article from the Mass. Review on Cunard in my file on Salaria Kea- I’ll definitely look for your book. African American women in the SPW is such a rich and understudied area. So glad to make this connection with you!
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