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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (141): 176–202.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2010 . UNESCO Institute for Statistics . “ El Salvador .” April 20 , 2020 . uis.unesco.org/en/country/sv . Wolf Sonja . “ Subverting Democracy: Elite Rule and the Limits to Political...
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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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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 129–135.
Published: 01 May 1994
... (1905), 50249,365-66. One reading to be assigned. TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY/135 Tuesday, April 27 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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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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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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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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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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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (71): 11–18.
Published: 01 May 1998
..., including the World Health Organization, the Food Agricultural Organization (FAO, which aims to make suffering nations food self-sufficient, miserably underfunded), UNEP (the Environmental Program), UNESCO-which we stormed out of years ago, because of a new information order which challenged...