Topographies of Suffering
Topographies of Suffering

Author: Jessica Rapson

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1782387102

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Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of “monument fatigue”, a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present. This leads to an examination of the role of the environment, or, more particularly, the ways in which the natural environment, co-opted in the process of killing, becomes a medium for remembrance.

Topographies of the Sacred
Topographies of the Sacred

Author: Catherine E. Rigby

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780813922751

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Although the British romantic poets - notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron - have been the subjects of previous ecocritical examinations, this text compares English and German literary models of romanticism.

Topographies
Topographies

Author: Joseph Hillis Miller

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780804723794

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This book investigates the function of topographical names and descriptions in a variety of narratives, poems, and philosophical or theoretical texts, primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, but including also Plato and the Bible. Topics include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power, the translation of theory from one topographical location to another, the way topographical delineations can function as parable or allegory, and the relation of personification to landscape.

A Prophet to the Peoples
A Prophet to the Peoples

Author: Jennie Weiss Block

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-05-04

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1666765031

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The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the traditions of Catholic theological ethics, and attend to concrete issues facing the world today. It advances the Journal of Moral Theology's mission of fostering scholarship deeply rooted in traditions of inquiry about the moral life, engaged with contemporary issues, and exploring the interface of Catholic moral theology, philosophy, economics, political philosophy, psychology, and more. This series is sponsored in conjunction with the Catholic Theological Ethics and the World Church. The CTEWC recognizes the need to dialogue from and beyond local cultures and to interconnect within a world church. Its global network of scholars, practitioners, and activists fosters cross-cultural, interdisciplinary conversations--via conferences, symposia, and colloquia, both in-person and virtually--about critical issues in theological ethics, shaped by shared visions of hope.

A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World
A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World

Author: Iain Ferris

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1803277823

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This study considers the relationship between geography and power in the Roman world, most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products: geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs.

Contemporary Art and Unforgetting in Colonial Landscapes
Contemporary Art and Unforgetting in Colonial Landscapes

Author: Kate McMillan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-22

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 3030172902

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This book explores the work of artists based in the global south whose practices and methods interrogate and explore the residue of Empire. In doing so, it highlights the way that contemporary art can assist in the un-forgetting of colonial violence and oppression that has been systemically minimized. The research draws from various fields including memory studies; postcolonial and decolonial strategies of resistance; activism; theories of the global south; the intersection between colonialism and the Anthropocene, as well as practice-led research methodologies in the visual arts. Told through the author’s own perspective as an artist and examining the work of Julie Gough, Yuki Kihara, Megan Cope, Yhonnie Scarce, Lisa Reihana and Karla Dickens, the book develops a number of unique theories for configuring the relationship between art and a troubled past.

Emerging Landscapes
Emerging Landscapes

Author: Davide Deriu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1317144791

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Emerging Landscapes brings together scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines within the fields of the built environment and visual arts to explore landscape as an idea, an image, and a material practice in an increasingly globalized world. Drawing on the synergies between the fields of architecture and photography, this collection takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining practice-based research with scholarly essays. It explores and critically reassesses the interface between representation - the imaginary and symbolic shaping of the human environment - and production - the physical and material changes wrought on the land. At a time of environmental crisis and the ’end of nature, ’shifting geopolitical boundaries and economic downturn, Emerging Landscapes reflects on the state of landscape and its future, mapping those practices that creatively address the boundaries between possibility, opportunity and action in imagining and shaping landscape.

Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology, Vol.1, No. 1
Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology, Vol.1, No. 1

Author: BJRT GTU

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-07-26

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 1365286118

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Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology, Vol. 1, No. 1. This is the inaugural issue and volume of the Journal. Featuring the first Karen Lebacqz Lecture at PSR, the 2014 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, articles by Purushottama Bilimoria and Colette Walker, and a book review.

Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz
Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz

Author: Joanne Pettitt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1351789651

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Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, the contributions collected in this volume each attempt, in various ways and from various perspectives, to trace the relationship between Nazi-occupied spaces and Holocaust memory, considering the multitude of ways in which the passing of time impacts upon, or shapes, cultural constructions of space. Accordingly, this volume does not consider topographies merely in relation to geographical landscapes but, rather, as markers of allusions and connotations that must be properly eked out. Since space and time are intertwined, if not, in fact, one and the same, an investigation of the spaces – the locations of horror – in relation to the passing of time might provide some manner of comprehension of one of the most troubling moments in human history. It is with this understanding of space, as fluid sites of memory that the contributors of this volume engage: these are the kind of shifting topographies that we are seeking to trace. This book was originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.