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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"post-1989"”.
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Memory on the move: transnational travel in post-1989 German literature
Contemporary German literature after 1989 has become increasingly transnational and transcultural, given its numerous portrayals of travel, particularly in exploring traumatic family pasts. The transitional years of 1989/90, known as the Wende, have arguably resulted in greater mobility and …
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Renegotiating history: representations of the family in post-1989 German literature
… responses to the collapse of socialism in 1989. In contrast, focusing on literary representations of family, this project reveals productive coping mechanisms developed in German literature after 1989. In artistic representation, family marks the site where the GDR’s dissolution and new …
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A comparative study on the educational debate in central Europe, with specific reference to Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia 1989-1991
… and political changes, following the 1989 revolutions in Central Europe, have found reflection and led to the emergence of interest groups in the education debate. It looks at the reforms initiated by the new ruling .power-elite in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. This reform …
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The difficulty in forging a bond: the inner workings of postmemory within family relationships in Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel Meines Bruders
1989 marked a pivotal time in Germany’s history where the two German states and their respective histories needed to be reconciled and the memory of its citizens was called upon to be revisited as well. With a major political event, such as WWII in the German history, Germans were prompted to …
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Post-GDR memory--cultural discourses of loss and assertion in reunified Germany
… the blockage of a nuanced GDR memory within post-unification discourses, the historical moment of 1989 can be understood as a moment of loss for East Germans. While post-unification scholarship has addressed questions of GDR identity and generational memory in other post-1989 contexts, there …
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Real Options Analysis of Carbon Forestry Under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme
… planted on and after 1st January 1990 (known as post-1989 forests) are eligible to earn carbon credits and sell them domestically and internationally, with a condition that the credits will have to be repaid back upon harvest of the forests. The amount of credits that have to be surrendered is …
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The political survival of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan: from participation to boycott
… which a distinction is made between the pre- and post-1989 eras that demarked a significant shift from partnership to crisis. Utilising an historical approach, the first era is defined by both parties’ mutual pragmatism, establishing a unified understanding of the Palestinian issue, and what the …
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Psychological Counselling in Russia: The Making of a Feminised Profession
… of the profession of psychological counselling post-1989 in Russia and analyses how gender shapes the processes of feminisation and professionalisation in this field. The post-perestroika period saw a rapid rise in the popularity of psychology and the expansion of therapy services, which were …
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A Preliminary Preview of Compensatory Forest Plantation in Peninsular Malaysia
… 1983, in four States of Peninsular Malaysia. By 1989, forest plantations totaling 36,874 hectares were established. A final analysis of CFPP is premature, as the program is only in its seventh year of a 15 year rotation. Results from preliminary appraisal indicate that CFPP was non - profitable …
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The Cultural Memory of Britain's Cold War
… of the period. This thesis assesses a number of post-1989 cultural portrayals of the Cold War to explore how Britain remembers the conflict. It will demonstrate that the ambiguous nature of the Cold War and Britain’s role within it has caused challenges for constructing a British Cold War …
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The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Polish politics of history
… and development in the context of Poland’s post-1989 political transformation. The present study maps the strivings of the team empowered by Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczyński to establish the museum. In doing so it reveals the duration, scope, and intensity of an effort to redraw the boundaries of …
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Towards corpo-nationalism: a Bourdieusian study exploring the relationship between national branding and the reproduction of Polishness (1999 - 2010).
… considers the socio-historical conditions of the post-Soviet era accompanying nation branding as a nation building process. By considering specific settings, it outlines a reflexive case study, addressing a shift in the economy of practices at the crossovers of the Polish state’s structures, …
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Nihil sine carbo: politics, labor, and the coal industry in the towns of the Jiu Valley, 1850-1999.
… Austro-Hungarian rule to its decline during the post-socialist transition, this dissertation argues that the miners were able to parlay labor solidarity and the need for coal not simply to negotiate their interests with the coal companies, but to resist pressures from centralizing regimes. The …
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From Technicians to Teachers: The New Zealand Curriculum and the Development of Ethical Teacher Professionality
… by the reforms of the education system since 1989, while dominant 'official' discourse postulates 'reprofessionalisation' through 'effective pedagogy'. This thesis suggests that The New Zealand Curriculum breaks with the pattern of neoliberal reform, because of the influence of Third Way …
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Eastern European Time-Based Art During and After Communism
… present day. A number of works produced pre- and post-1989 are analysed that offer insights into the past, its disintegration, and the transition period. The theoretical and critical thrust is shaped from primary research material gathered from artists, intellectuals, and critics throughout the …
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Hope-Hopping
… that emerges at the intersection between post-coloniality, cosmopolitanism, and technopolitics. Exilic art practice takes myriad forms in this post-1989’s new “New World”. There are contemporary artists who are far from home, negotiating the distance between their displaced homeland and a …
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Capitalist realism : making art for sale in Shanghai, 1999
… becoming "art consumers" for the first time in post-revolutionary China. Post-1989 China was a uniquely volatile social and political environment; the failure of the 1989 democracy movement incentivized the rise of state-directed capitalism, and Deng Xiaoping was championing a new official …
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A ‘FROG HYPNOTIZED BY A SNAKE’? WESTERN EUROPE AND THE POLISH MOVEMENT SOLIDARNOŚĆ, 1980–1989
… eventually to re-emerge as a key player in the 1989 Round Table negotiations and the first semi-free elections in the Soviet bloc. The study also exposes a structural ambiguity: Solidarność’s identity, and the way it was perceived, shifted across borders, across the decade, and across social …
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Politics of the Project: Radical Art in Britain (1972-79)
… is still very limited. As a result the post-1989 period is widely cited as the dawn of artist projects in contemporary accounts. This thesis challenges such oversights by arguing that the ‘artist project’ emerged in the 1970s. It illuminates the 1970s artistic practice of project-making …
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