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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820457103321

Titolo

The nation, Europe, and the world : textbooks and curricula in transition / / edited by Hanna Schissler and Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2005

ISBN

1-57181-549-X

1-78238-174-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

907/.1

Soggetti

History - Study and teaching

History - Textbooks

International education - Curricula

Place-based education - Curricula

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The Nation, Europe, and the World; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Europe Contested; Chapter 1. Projections of Identity in French and German History and Civics Textbooks; Chapter 2. Privileged Migrants in Germany, France, and the Netherlands; Chapter 3. What Counts as History and How Much Does History Count?; Chapter 4. The Decline and Rise of the Nation in German History Education; Part II. Europe Seen from the Periphery; Chapter 5. Nation and the Other in Greek and Turkish History Textbooks; Chapter 6. "Europe" in Bulgarian Conceptions of Nationhood

Chapter 7. Learning about Europe and the WorldChapter 8. Europe in Spanish Textbooks; Part III. Global Frameworks and Approaches to World History; Chapter 9. World History and General Education; Chapter 10. Cartographies of Connection; Chapter 11. World History; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Textbooks in history, geography and the social sciences provide important insights into the ways in which nation-states project themselves. Based on case studies of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Turkey Bulgaria, Russia, and the United States, this volume shows the role that concepts of space and time play



in the narration of ‘our country’ and the wider world in which it is located. It explores ways in which in western European countries the nation is reinterpreted through European lenses to replace national approaches in the writing of history. On the other hand, in an effort to overcome Eurocentric views,’world history’ has gained prominence in the United States. Yet again, East European countries, coming recently out of a transnational political union, have their own issues with the concept of nation to contend with. These recent developments in the field of textbooks and curricula open up new and fascinating perspectives on the changing patterns of the re-positioning process of nation-states in West as well as Eastern Europe and the United States in an age of growing importance of transnational organizations and globalization.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300592503321

Autore

Vartabedian Julieta

Titolo

Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations : Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences / / by Julieta Vartabedian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319771014

3319771019

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences, , 2947-8790

Disciplina

306.76

Soggetti

Sex

Human body - Social aspects

Emigration and immigration

Philosophy of mind

Self

Ethnology

Gender Studies

Sociology of the Body

Human Migration

Philosophy of the Self

Ethnography

Sociocultural Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introducing Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations -- Chapter 2: Disrupting dichotomous boundaries of gender and sexuality -- Chapter 3: Brazilian travestis and the beginning of our encounters -- Chapter 4: On bodies, beauty and 'travesti' femininity -- Chapter 5: On clients, 'maridos' and 'travestis'' sexualities -- Chapter 6: 'Travesti' sex workers' bodily experiences and the politics of life and death -- Chapter 7: Trans migrations: Brazilian 'travestis'' spatial and embodied journeys -- Chapter 8: 'Travestis'' paradoxes in contemporary world.

Sommario/riassunto

'Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations offers a rich and nuanced analysis of the cultures of travestis in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona. Emerging from a feminist ethics and paying particular attention to embodiment and aesthetics, it tells a moving and often heroic story of gender diverse lives, loves and bodies. This is a wonderful addition to sexuality and gender research.' -Sally Hines, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Leeds, UK. 'Vartabedian's fascinating ethnographic account reveals not only how some performances of femininity are valued more than others, but how these performances are simultaneously a way of enacting exoticized versions of Brazilianness. Importantly, she showcases the limitations of eurocentric sex/gender taxonomies for accommodating travesti ways of being and suggests that transgender studies further work to do if it is to interpret travesti lives without doing epistemological violence to them.' -Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona, USA, and co-editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly This book analyses the embodied and spatial experiences of Brazilian travesti sex workers who cross both, gender and (trans)national borders. Based on a multi-sited ethnography, it explores travestis' bodily transformations, their involvement in sex work, and the transnational migrations to Europe that many make. This engaging account combines rich ethnographic research with incisive analysis that draws on feminist and trans studies, queer theory (and its critiques), social and queer geography research, sex work and trans migration studies. It will appeal to students and scholars of migration, gender, sexuality and transgender issues. Julieta Vartabedian is a researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. In her work she combines gender studies, feminist theory, ethnographic and embodiment research. Her articles have been published in Qualitative Research and Sexualities.