...Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay Abstract The iconification of political prisoners enhances their visibility, credibility, and power. Nevertheless, iconification may also reduce, reimagine, or otherwise distort the biographies and experiences of political prisoners. Moreover, iconicity’s blurring of prisoners...

...Stefka Hristova The transformation of iconic images of traumatic historical events into everyday humorous practice illuminates the mechanisms of remembering and forgetting that operate in digital popular culture. The image-icon has the power to evoke history, to function in Walter Benjamin's terms...

... the beginning of their relationship in the late 1940s until Dana's death in 2006. This article explores the changing Mistral icon in the context of 1990s “Chile de la transición,” particularly a 2001 controversy over her appropriate reception and circulation, and then considers the reception of the Dana archive...

...James Stone Cloverfield (dir. Matt Reeves, 2008), a Hollywood movie about a giant, reptilian monster attacking New York City, includes many moments reminiscent of the iconic video footage captured on 9/11. The film presents these scenes of destruction as thrilling spectacle and, in so doing...

... they were blinded by the Afro-Asian solidarity of the 1954 Bandung Conference. Indonesia used Bandung to codify its eventual colonization of West Papua. This article complicates Bandung as an iconic symbol of Global South solidarity. Excavating newspapers, indigenous magazines and archives on Melanesia...

... as a mobilizing language that symbolized the drive for truth, justice, and democracy? This essay traces, for the iconic case of Chile, the dialectics of street struggle and cognitive struggle during the Pinochet dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s that turned memory into a strategic language for victim-survivors...

... in the regions of Mexico and of southern Italy that either sent large numbers of migrants to the United States or were incorporated into its national territory. We ask why street foods became iconic symbols of ethnic Mexican food in the United States when ethnic Italian food became associated with restaurants...

... Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2022 Afropolitanism Black Paris gender urban space Media and mobility are key factors in this aspect of Ekué’s vision. 39 Icône urbaine ’s Flora, the self-proclaimed “rising star” at the magazine Afro-International , edits the section on hair and writes...

...Figure 1. The Sinai Icon, a Byzantine depiction of the archangel Gabriel’s arrival prior to Mary’s Annunciation, ca. twelfth century CE. Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai. Image courtesy of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai. ...

... government agencies abuse exemptions on declassification provided by the Freedom of Infor- mation Act and presidential executive orders. Often, they note, government agencies act to protect what they call “classification icons”—areas that are reflexively por...

..., is an icon of strength and solidarity that has long been associated with the Industrial Workers of the World and the feminist and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and most recently, in images generated in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Figure 5. “Sex Workers of the World...

... mixing as a symbol of democratization in process. This trope of “hybridity as democracy” has become a paradigm of Caribbeanness, a “Caribbean romance” that, born of colonial invention, yet divorced from its original context, still lingers as a serviceable and iconic post­ colonial symbol...

...: University of California Press, 1995. $40.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality. New York: Dutton, 1995. $22.95. Wayne Koestenbaum, Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. $21.00. Fred Pfeil...

... Press, 1997). $35.00 (cloth). David Kunzle, Che Guevara: Icon, Myth, and Message (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997) $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 Buscando el Cornandante: Recent Writings on the Life...

... as they are” — a forerunner perhaps to the emulated street-­style photo- graphs on blogs like The Sartorialist. Some of the most iconic images of city streets came from the camera work of photographers who worked for municipalities or newspapers and magazines, how- ever. Eugene de Salignac, for example, the sole...

... of Japanese car companies into the Italian market. Nor did the museum display examples of the Soviet made Lada, although it is one of the most heavily used cars in the world and a Fiat design, possibly because of embarrassment over its poor quality. In spite of the wealth of icons...

... the further growth of the mass movement at home.” 47 Angela Davis became more than a heroic woman in Cuba; she became a visually iconic revolutionary ideal. During her time on the island Davis emphasized her role not as an individual, but as part of a larger struggle and a symbol of what fruit...