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5 days ago · The chapters collectively make three key contributions to wellbeing literature: first, they show that stories about wellbeing can be at once rooted in places and a driver of mobility, in ways that can both ameliorate and reproduce inequality; secondly, narratives of wellbeing are often interconnected with narratives of suffering, illuminating the poignant, agentic ways in which people navigate ...
1 day ago · As the South African application to the ICJ argues, the desperate ferocity of Israel’s attack reveals its desire to eliminate the entire Palestinian people. Israel is attempting to obliterate the people’s culture, its stories, its narratives of self-determination and resistance. But the movement for Palestinian liberation continues to grow.
3 days ago · The Basilica was thus built upon the very spot where some of the most significant opening and closing events of the Paris Commune occurred. In the years that followed the laying of the foundation stone in 1875, the predominantly republican population of Paris sought to stop what they perceived as a manifestation of reactionary monarchism from being erected in their midst….
3 days ago · Introduction. The Combahee River Collective was a group of black feminist lesbians who met together for discussion in the 1970s. Their purpose was to understand their place in the midst of the ongoing change, if not revolution, in relations between whites and blacks, men and women, and, they hoped, poor and rich.
5 days ago · American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern U.S. that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. Its roots were in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to abolish slavery and resist racial oppression.
3 days ago · The narratives of former slaves in the United States continue to be discovered and published, most recently David Blight’s A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (2007).
3 days ago · Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights, Nonviolence, Equality: In the years after his death, King remained the most widely known African American leader of his era.
