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    Atomized solidarity and new shapes of resistance: Visual activism in South Africa after apartheid
    (Routledge, 2022-12-30) Thomas, Kylie; NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Netherlands
    This chapter provides a concise history of visual activism in South Africa and focuses on how contemporary artists and activists make use of visual forms to intervene in public space, to document injustice, and to express dissent. The chapter argues that visual activism is best understood as a call to those who look to move from seeing and knowing to acting. Through analyses of works by visual activists Zanele Muholi, Haroon Gunn-Salie, and the Tokolos Stencils Collective, and through engaging with a campaign created by the social justice movement Section27, the essay shows how such work draws attention to homophobia and sexual violence; impunity for crimes against humanity; and ongoing inequality in the aftermath of apartheid. The essay also considers what occurs when visual activist works are detached from collective mobilizing and circulate within the neo-liberal art economy, producing forms of atomized solidarity.
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    The 'half-Irish' Herbert Remmel
    (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015) O'Driscoll, Mervyn
    This book chapter examines Herbert Remmel’s childhood experience which juxtaposed Hitler’s Germany and de Valera’s neutral Ireland. Born in 1936 in Cologne he experienced the war from the perspective of a child. As a fortunate nine year old, he escaped the bombed out Rhineland by taking advantage of a humanitarian operation involving the Irish Red Cross and the Save the German Children Society (SGCS). He landed off the mail-boat from Liverpool at Dun Laoghaire in Dublin on 27 July 1946 as a member of the first group of approximately 80 German children arriving under the scheme. Herbert’s experiences with his two Irish foster families instilled in the young German boy a deep and intimate appreciation of Ireland, its society, the Irish sense of place, the people’s traditions, the Irish rural way of life and Irish nationalism. Though only in Ireland for just under three years, the interlude was indelibly imprinted on his being and identity. His experience granted him rare insights into both his native fatherland, Germany, and his fostering motherland, Ireland.
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    Harping on the past: Translating antiquarian learning into popular culture in early nineteenth-century Ireland
    (Ashgate, 2010-09) O'Halloran, Clare; Calaresu, Melissa; de Vivo, Filippo; Rubiés, Joan-Pau
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    Impossible allies? Soviet Views of France and the German question in the 1950s
    (Berghahn Books, 2019) Roberts, Geoffrey; Bozo, Frédéric; Wenkel, Christian
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    International news flows in the seventeenth century: problems and prospects
    (Brill, 2016) Dooley, Brendan; Raymond, Joad; Moxham, Noah
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    The origins and early history of Euratom, 1955-1968
    (European Parliament, 2002) O'Driscoll, Mervyn
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    Student movements
    (Gale Group, 2001) Dooley, Brendan; Stearns, Peter N.
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    Visions of a Habsburg Mediterranean in the Reign of Charles V
    (Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10-07) Bond, Katherine; Hanß, Stefan; McEwan, Dorothea