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Communication power (2009) by Manuel Castells is concerned with empirical evidence and political communication theories. I was impressed when I encountered the description by Peter Burke (2005) of how Castells has conceptualized city life and cities in the context of postmodernity. Castells has remarked that ‘The city is everywhere and in everything,’ and that networks constitute […]
The arrival of modernity has occurred at different times in different places. Prior to postmodernity, as Burke (2005) has noted, modernity held the stage. Charles Taylor, in Malaise of modernity (1992), highlights the cultural origins of modernity. Theodore Rabb, in The last days of the Renaissance and the path to modernity (2006) also outlines the steps to modernity. With regard to […]
John Vincent in 1966 wrote that the great moral idea of British liberalism was manliness. This is a topic Susan Pedersen discusses in a chapter entitled “What is political history now?” in What is history now? (2002). According to Vincent, for a nineteenth-century man one’s assignment in life was “to provide for his own family, have his own […]
I’m really pleased I had the opportunity to attend the June 5, 2012 Mimico 20/20 workshop at the Large Gym at the Ken Cox Community Centre at 28 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive. The workshop had the same agenda and material as the May 29, 2012 workshop, which I had not been able to attend. […]
Fanny Martin, the 2012 Jane’s Walk Event Manager, has asked 2012 Jane’s Walk leaders three questions, which I have included as headings for this blog post. “If you have a moment,” she has said, “I’d love to have your input, especially but not exclusively on these points.” I would like to invite you, as a visitor to this […]
Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse (2008) is part of a publishing series at the University of Birmingham entitled New Perspectives in German Studies. The paragraph I have chosen to focus upon is on p. 143 of Chapter 5, which is entitled: “Narrating Resistance to the Third Reich: Museum Discourse, Autobiography, […]