Displacement Urbanism: Politics of Bodies and Spaces of Abandonment and Endurance

Available open access digitally under CC BY NC ND licence. At a time when the annihilation of places to live and to imagine a future is unfolding—through the violent return of war, aggressive capitalism, and biopolitical projects of territorial control—this timely book explores the layered and ongoing displacements that shape much of the world today. Bringing together case studies from both the Global North and South, the contributors examine the deeply entangled relationship between displacement and the production of urban space in our time. This perspective takes root in the everyday fragility of urban life, particularly in places marked by colonial legacies, racial capitalism, extractive economies and imperial infrastructures. It draws attention to the creative urban processes that arise in the aftermath of violence and the resourceful practices that continue to shape how cities are lived in, imagined and built.

Passport to Citizenship: Finding America by Living Abroad

Born deep in rural south Alabama, in one of the poorest corners of the poorest counties in the state, the grandson of people born into slavery, Arthur N. Dunning left Alabama as a young airman while the Vietnam War raged half a world away. And then, the burden of accumulated trauma inflicted by the racial caste system he experienced in Alabama melted away when he was removed from it, leaving him free to grapple with and come to terms with it. When outside the United States, Dunning felt free to wander unfamiliar neighborhoods, eat different foods, speak with foreign people, and analyze his experiences without having to look over his shoulder—literally and figuratively. By seeing himself and his country through other people’s eyes, experiencing the rich and ancient traditions of nations around the world, Dunning ended up, like James Baldwin, a new man in a new world. A person curious about the human condition. Passport to Citizenship reveals how Dunning evolved from a provincial, angry Black teenager who was very much a product of his time into a calmer, more thoughtful person. And while Dunning never despised his country like some of his generation did, he felt the magnitude of its failures, and he was determined to move past them. This is Dunning’s story of how he took what his parents, who were both educators themselves, his grandparents, and his local community in Sweet Water, Alabama, gave him out into the larger world. In so doing, Dunning came to appreciate his upbringing—and his experiences—even more.

If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened: The Life and Times of a Domestic War Correspondent

If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened offers one journalist’s version of the truth about how we ended up here and how nasty, sad, and disturbing it really is. This is the real, unvarnished history whose first draft was written in the same chaotic and roughshod way that it always has been—by some weary reporter just trying to figure shit out. But this isn’t just a story about Justin Glawe and his experiences as a domestic war correspondent. It’s about how the things we love—or thought we loved—can break us. From long-forgotten deaths in his Midwestern hometown and far northern Minnesota, through the ravages of endless police killings, to the border and its desperate migrants, in small towns torn apart by spree killings, at the Vegas massacre, the Dallas massacre, Ferguson, and through the stories of corrupt politicians and dirty cops as reported from dive bars, cheap motels, and truck stops across the nation, readers of If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened will see through visceral writing what most people never see: the seams of an entire country tearing apart in front of their very eyes. But just because something breaks you doesn’t mean you have to stay broken. Things may be falling apart all around us, but we don’t always have to bring it home. You can leave your gas mask—and your Jameson—at the door and be human again.

Martin Crimp: The Writer and the Work

This edited collection reflects on British playwright Martin Crimp (b. 1956) and his remarkable and multifaceted career in theatre and opera, offering an interdisciplinary, collaborative and internationalist analysis of one of the most unique authorial voices globally in the recent and contemporary period. While taking stock of Crimp’s output across different theatre and performance genres as well as cultural and production contexts, the volume’s contributors are motivated not merely by looking back, but by strongly engaging with the present and future of this extraordinary writer. The volume locates Crimp as a groundbreaking figure in literary and artistic traditions in the United Kingdom and beyond, all the while recognising that his output transcends categorisation and occupies a singular and distinctive space. Co-edited by Vicky Angelaki (Sweden), Élisabeth Angel-Perez (France) and Clara Escoda (Spain), three leading research experts in Martin Crimp Studies internationally, the volume additionally features contributions by a team of prominent academic authors whose individual work has also served to create and define this field across different literary, artistic and cultural contexts. A key feature of the book is a major new and extensive interview with Martin Crimp by Aleks Sierz, offering valuable elucidation of crucial aspects of Crimp’s writing and process.

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland. Examining the island’s literature, art, history and visual culture, it argues that the establishment and maintenance of partition had a deep impact on the ways that Irish culture was produced and interpreted. Drawing upon archives from both partition states, as well as the private papers of several authors, it resituates debates around Irish culture and politics within the polemics of state formation, including work from Evie Hone, St John Ervine, Michael McLaverty, William Conor, Flann O’Brien, Agnes Romilly White, Benedict Kiely, Dorothy Macardle and many others. It also places literature and culture within the context of literary congresses, art exhibitions, state festivals and World’s Fairs. In considering partition not as a past event but a process which continues in the present, this study recovers the networks of influence and production as well as the debates around partition that propelled Irish culture in these years. Placing the production of culture and the invention of tradition by the two Irish partition states in conversation with each other for the first time, Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 argues for a reconsideration of the language, imagery and chronology of the island’s division.

Intervention for Psychological Trauma in Children Impacted by War in Ukraine

Responding to the Need for Psychotherapeutic Respite by War-Exposed Ukrainian Children

The End of War

War and the Environment

Implementation of the Marrakech Framework for Action in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals: UNESCO and Global Cooperation Frameworks

ABSTRACT The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was established in 1945, shortly after World War I. Peace was a key concern. As part of the human right to education, adults and their education and learning needs have received greater attention and recognition through a number of international conferences and recommendations. UNESCO has also initiated global reports on the development of education, looking through the lens of lifelong learning as a new paradigm. This perspective could also be applied when the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed upon by the United Nations. The article follows some important milestones during those 80 years, especially with a more detailed view of the UNESCO Global Network on Learning Cities.