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A Dream Deferred: UNESCO, American Expertise, and the Eclipse of Radical News Development in the Early Satellite Age
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (141): 30–59.
Published: 01 October 2021
... South elaborated a wide-ranging structural critique of the status quo, arguing that developing mass media required decolonizing international networks and global governance practices that perpetuated media inequality. But over the course of the decade, UNESCO began to invite research and expertise from...
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Culture, Content, and the Enclosure of Human Being: UNESCO's “Intangible” Heritage in the New Millennium
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (109): 121–135.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... In this review and extension of anthropological approaches to patrimony, I argue that a vacillation between alienable and inalienable cultural properties constructed around quotidian habits, or what has been construed as some sort of human essence supervised by UNESCO, has come to rest today on a hybrid form...
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Robben Island and the Culture of Reconstruction in South Africa
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 178–202.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., negating this once oppressive labor and transforming it into an affirmation of freedom. On ensuing days, the reunion celebrated and demanded support for the ex-prisoners and set Robben Island on the path to becoming the country’s first national peoples’ museum and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Drawing...
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Valongo Wharf: Crossings of the Public Memory of Slavery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Radical History Review (2025) 2025 (152): 53–69.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Sergio Gardenghi Suiama Abstract This article analyzes the dynamics shaping the public memory of Valongo Wharf, a UNESCO World Heritage site linked to the transatlantic slave trade. The article explores how intersections between local, national, and international actors—including Black movements...
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Unwitting Actors: The Preservation of Fez's Cultural Heritage
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 123–148.
Published: 01 May 2003
... histori-
ographies in the postcolonial period is extremely tangible and explicit. It then pro-
ceeds to explore some of the problems and contradictions that emerge from this
awkward application.
In 1976, a Moroccan delegation petitioned UNESCO’s...
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Educating Citizens in Postwar Guatemala: Historical Memory, Genocide, and the Culture of Peace
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (97): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2007
... historical memory as
part of the national curricular standards. One Ministry of Education plan did gain
currency, however. Called “Citizenship Formation in the National Curricula” and
funded by UNESCO’s Culture of Peace Project, the approved plan recommends
that children study the conditions that led...
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A Needle in the Desert
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 205–217.
Published: 01 October 2022
... been paraded across the globe. In 2016, Alphadi was designated UNESCO’s Artist for Peace, a title given by the institution in recognition of his commitment to culture and development in the service of peace, respect, and human dignity, as well as for his contribution to promoting tolerance and his...
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Race, Empire, and Humanism in the Work of Lillian Smith
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (101): 59–80.
Published: 01 May 2008
... with the emergence of human rights in its spe-
cific and official mid-century forms. When the United Nations Educational, Scien-
tific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) compiled responses to the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, a letter from Gandhi formed part of the resulting
volume. Gandhi wrote...
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (109): 172–173.
Published: 01 January 2011
... is an associate professor of anthropology at Queens College and the Gradu-
ate Center, City University of New York. His Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in
the Twilight of Brazilian “Racial Democracy,” a study of the making of a UNESCO Historical
Center in Salvador, Brazil, is forthcoming. He...
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Reclaiming the Nation through Public Murals: Maya Resistance and the Reinterpretation of History
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (106): 5–26.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of a cooperative project that grew out of local com-
munity planning in conjunction with the Municipality of Comalapa, Proyecto Cul-
tura de Paz en Guatemala of UNESCO, Cooperación Italiana, La Fundación Maya,
and FLACSO-Guatemala.21 It is one of the few positive examples of compliance to
the 1996 Peace...
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A Specter Is Still Haunting: The Specter of World History
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 110–116.
Published: 01 January 2005
... with other colleagues, organized a workshop called “Com-
parative History and History Education,” designed to reevaluate the writing of his-
tory. We owed much to the experiences of a series of German-Polish textbook con-
ferences that began in 1972 as an initiative sponsored by UNESCO.9 The workshop...
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Depoliticizing Archaeology for Constructing Pasts and Presents: Cultural Heritage, War, and the West
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (130): 9–43.
Published: 01 January 2018
.... For example, the way of enlisting sites for the UNESCO
endangered list is presented as a positive act toward preserving cultural heritage yet
ignores the opportunism employed in the selection of sites, in a globally reaching
nexus of heritage management exploited by “global informational capitalism.”87...
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How to Read Equipo Maíz: Cartooning the Political in El Salvador
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (141): 176–202.
Published: 01 October 2021
... centers community well-being as the defining metric of media’s utility. Many entries of La página address the power of the citizen vote, exposing the lies of right-wing politicians that rely on fearmongering and intimidation to dissuade people from exercising their democratic rights. 1. UNESCO...
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Beyond Compare: Comparative Method after the Transnational Turn
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 62–90.
Published: 01 January 2005
..., developments were brewing that would challenge the comparative
consensus. Hoping to find clues to help prevent the reoccurrence of World War II’s
terrible bloodshed, UNESCO, beginning in the early 1950s, launched its famous
series of studies of Brazilian racial harmony.
Researchers funded by UNESCO...
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History in Global Perspective: Cultures in Contact and Conflict
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 129–135.
Published: 01 May 1994
... (1905), 50249,365-66.
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liiperialism and Response: Africa (Lidwien Kapteijns)
G.N. Uzoigwe, "European Partition and Conquest of Africa: An Overview,"
in UNESCO Geneva1 History...
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Expanding the Scope of African Diaspora Studies: The Middle East and India, a Research Agenda
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (87): 157–168.
Published: 01 October 2003
...); Y. Talip, “The African Diaspora in Asia,” in General History of Africa, vol. 3 (Paris:
UNESCO, 1988), 704–33; Joseph E. Harris, The African Presence in Asia: Consequences of
the East African Slave Trade (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1971...
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Universal History and the Challenge of Globalization to African Historiography
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 98–103.
Published: 01 January 2005
....uio.no/program/mt1a.htm.
2. Quoted in ibid., 6.
3. Ibid., 7.
4. J. D. Fage, “The Development of African Historiography,” in Methodology and African
Prehistory, vol. 1 of UNESCO General History of Africa, ed. Joseph Ki-Zerbo (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1981), 38.
5...
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Breaking the Wall of Silence: Slavery in Mauritian Historiography
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 104–109.
Published: 01 January 2005
... has also not been approved, as
UNESCO has put Le Morne on a tentative World Heritage Site list. In the twenty-
first century, further new exciting developments in academic research are stimulat-
ing public interest in the history of slavery. Archaeology has come to the rescue of
those of us...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (141): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the inequalities of a colonial land-based infrastructure. She takes a deep dive into the UNESCO archives to uncover how this international body privileged the voices of US modernization theorists who promoted US commercial interests, and thus averted the more radical solutions that global South professionals...
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Irish Postcolonial Studies, 1980–2021
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 15–31.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Angela . The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story . London : Pimlico , 1999 . Brouillette Sarah . UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2019 . Carville Conor The Ends of Ireland: Criticism, History, Subjectivity . Manchester...
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