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  • Memory and Utopia

    The Primacy of Inter-Subjectivity

    by Luisa Passerini ...
    'Memory and Utopia' looks at the connection between memory and forgetfulness in Europe during the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history and feminist theory and practice, the book highlights how women struggled to be recognized as full subjects. The themes of utopia and desire in the 1968 movements of students, women and workers are explored. 'Memory and Utopia' examines the sense of belonging ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Gender and Memory

    by Luisa Passerini ...
    Series series Memory and Narrative
    Gender and Memory brings together contributions from around the world and from a range of disciplines--history and sociology, socio-linguistics and family therapy, literature--to create a volume that confronts all those concerned with autobiographical testimony and narrative, both spoken and written. The fundamental theme is the shaping of memory by gender. This paperback edition includes a new ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Women Migrants From East to West

    Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe

    Edited by Luisa Passerini, Dawn Lyon, Enrica Capussotti, Ioanna Laliotou ...
    Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved from Bulgaria and Hungary to Italy and the Netherlands. It assumes migrants to be active subjects, creating possibilities ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Performing Memory

    Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968

    Edited by Luisa Passerini, Dieter Reinisch ...
    Series Book 47 - Making Sense of History
    Through a post-1968 perspective on the past 50 years, Performing Memory brings together case studies on new developments in the relationship between politics and visual representation—including the histories of dance, theatre, political performance and cinema—and investigates how they relate to the interlinked concepts of visuality, corporeality and mobility. Using a collective transdisciplinary ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe

    Edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Luisa Passerini, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, Iris van Huis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same time, ... Read more

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  • Europe and Love in Cinema

    Edited by Luisa Passerini, Jo Labanyi, Karen Diehl ...
    Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love—in its broadest sense—is portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of "Europeanness" that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more "European" ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Mobility of Memory

    Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders

    Edited by Milica Trakilović, Gabriele Proglio, Luisa Passerini ...
    Series Book 5 - Worlds of Memory
    Migration is most concretely defined by the movement of human bodies, but it leaves indelible traces on everything from individual psychology to major social movements. Drawing on extensive field research, and with a special focus on Italy and the Netherlands, this interdisciplinary volume explores the interrelationship of migration and memory at scales both large and small, ranging across topics ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Memory and Totalitarianism

    Edited by Luisa Passerini ...
    Series series Memory and Narrative
    Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. The invasion of Moscow's streets by Russian people rejecting an attempted coup d'etat was the culmination of a process that had been initiated years before and raised crucial questions: To what extent can these events be considered the end of an era stretching from World War I ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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    by Chiara Brambilla, Jussi Laine, Gianluca Bocchi ...
    Series series Border Regions Series
    Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Transitions in Europe

    Contexts, Practices and Politics

    Edited by Gianmaria Colpani, Sandra Ponzanesi ...
    Is the notion of postcolonial Europe an oxymoron? How do colonial pasts inform the emergence of new subjectivities and political frontiers in contemporary Europe? Postcolonial Transitions in Europe explores these questions from different theoretical, geopolitical and media perspectives.Drawing from the interdisciplinary tools of postcolonial critique, this book contests the idea that Europe ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

    by Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson ...
    Series series a Social Text book
    Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Assembly

    by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri ...
    Series series Heretical Thought
    In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of progressive policy, and checks on repressive state forces. They have also been, at times, derided by journalists and political ... Read more

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