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- The Deutschland Series: Cold War Nostalgia for Transnational AudiencesGumbert, Heather L. (Cambridge University Press, 2021-06-01)How do you explain the Cold War to a generation who did not live through it? For Jörg and Anna Winger, co-creators and showrunners of the Deutschland series, you bring it to life on television. Part pop culture reference, part spy thriller, and part existential crisis, the Wingers’ Cold War is a fun, fast-paced story, “sunny and slick and full of twenty-something eye candy.” A coproduction of Germany's UFA Fiction and Sundance TV in the United States, the show premiered at the 2015 Berlinale before appearing on American and German television screens later that year. Especially popular in the United Kingdom, it sold widely on the transnational market. It has been touted as a game-changer for the German television industry for breaking new ground for the German television industry abroad and expanding the possibilities of dramatic storytelling in Germany, and is credited with unleashing a new wave of German (historical) dramas including Babylon Berlin, Dark, and a new production of Das Boot.
- Development and Indigenous Ecopolitics in Post-Genocide GuatemalaCopeland, Nicholas M. (SAGE, 2023)How do Indigenous and peasant political paradigms interact? This essay examines the relationship between Indigenous-ontopolitical critiques of development and peasant-oriented demands for alternative development in the Guatemalan defense of territory (DT), an Indigenous-led alliance against extractive development. Drawing on politically-engaged ethnographic and historical fieldwork, I argue that theories that counterpose indigenous ecological values of reciprocity and human-nature interrelatedness to “development” oversimplify Indigenous responses to the multi-dimensional nature of colonization. I describe how cosmological critiques coexist with demands for progressive (redistributive) extraction and agrarian struggles for food sovereignty and integral development. I suggest that the ascendance of post-development critiques crowds out demands for anticolonial development in the DT, limiting its potential to present a compelling alternative for poor communities. I point to a convergence between ontopolitical critique and counterinsurgency and propose holding critiques and demands for development in creative tension to strengthen decolonial struggles.
- Historians of Technology in the Real World Reflections on the Pursuit of Policy-Oriented HistoryHirsh, R. F. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2011)Despite widespread acceptance of the notion that studies of the past provide tangible benefits, academic historians usually remain reluctant to apply "lessons" from history to the realms of public and business policy. This article suggests reasons for that reluctance while also suggesting that historians of technology can make valuable contributions to the policy community. In particular, these professionals can employ tools and insights developed in their field to highlight the social contexts in which technology evolves, helping decision makers understand why specific policies may or may not accomplish stated goals. The article also suggests means by which historians can influence policy, such as through their teaching, their writing and speaking to lay ! audiences, and their direct participation in government bodies. Due to institutional disincentives for this nontraditional activity, however, historians interested in policy work should already have acquired secure, tenured positions within their academic institutions.
- Inez Holmes, Nurse and VeteranWilkerson, Kiana; Randall, Katherine; Ewing, E. Thomas (National Library of Medicine, 2021-11-11)
- Momentum shifts in the American electric utility system: Catastrophic change - Or no change at all?Hirsh, R. F.; Serchuk, A. H. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1996-04)
- Online Catasto of 1427 [Review]Midura, Rachel (2023-08-01)
- Revealing Data: Mortality in Mexico City During the 1890 Influenza EpidemicEwing, E. Thomas; Murphy, Sydney (National Library of Medicine, 2023-08-06)
- A Stalinist Celebrity Teacher: Gender, Professional, and Political Identities in Soviet Culture of the 1930sEwing, E. Thomas (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2004)