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Barros_heritage, 15 minutes ago to archive Spanish

THE FREEDOM ARCHIVES

“The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings as well as print materials dating primarily from the late-1960s to the mid-90s. These collections chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements for liberation and social justice.”

#FreedomArchives #Archive #History #Politics #Political #SocialJustice #Heritage

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https://freedomarchives.org/

Barros_heritage, 2 days ago to culturalheritage Spanish

I am so sick of the obsession with any detail related to the Mona Lisa…😑

#Painting #MonaLisa #Louvre #Museum

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/11/where-mona-lisa-was-painted-mystery-solved-geologist-claims

Barros_heritage, 3 days ago to uk Spanish

Theft of Bronze Age gold artefacts from UK museum sparks fresh concerns about lack of government investment in sector by Joe Ware #TheArtNewspaper

“The theft of a Bronze Age gold torc and bracelet from a UK institution has sparked calls for greater government investment in the museum sector.

Police are yet to make arrests and are appealing for information to track down two thieves who broke into the Ely Museum, Cambridgeshire, on 7 May and escaped on electric scooters.

With gold prices hitting a record high in recent months experts are worried that the precious artefacts, worth £220,000 in their current form, might be melted down for their scrap metal value.”

#Museum #Theft #UK #Heritage #CulturalHeritage #Archaeology

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https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/14/theft-of-bronze-age-gold-artefacts-from-uk-museum-sparks-fresh-concerns-about-lack-of-government-investment-in-sector

Barros_heritage, 12 days ago to archive Spanish

AROLSEN ARCHIVES

“Arolsen Archives remembers the Nazi persecution, the Holocaust and the consequences of the crimes. The basis of this work are millions of documents about the victims of National Socialism.”

#Archive #Arolsen #Nazi #Fascism #Spain #OnlineArchive

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https://arolsen-archives.org/es/

Barros_heritage, 12 days ago to scifi Spanish

Re-reading Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star. An incredible space opera.

#SciFi #SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #Book #Bookstodon
#PandoraStar

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Barros_heritage, 13 days ago to Ukraine Spanish

Huge Soviet-era monument taken down in Kyiv as Ukraine continues 'derussification' #TheArtNewspaper

“A Soviet-era monument believed to glorify Ukraine’s ties to Russia is being dismantled on orders of the Kyiv city government in the latest stage of derussification following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Kyiv’s Department of Territorial Control announced the start of the monument’s removal in a Facebook post on 30 April, stressing its massive size: “The sculptural composition is large, consists of about 20 elements weighing between 6,000kg and 7,000kg each. Due to the complexity of the design, dismantling may take a few days.””

#Monument #Ukraine #Russia #Kyiv #Derussification #CulturalHeritage #History #NegativeHeritage

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https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/03/huge-soviet-era-monument-taken-down-in-ukraine

Barros_heritage, 18 days ago to anthropology

ROMA VOICES IN HISTORY. A Sourcebook. Volume Editors: Elena Marushiakova
and Vesselin Popov. #Brill #OpenAccess #Book 2021

"This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as ‘Gypsies’ in local languages). The selection of the included materials reflects the authentic voice of the Roma themselves, and presents their visions and the specific goals pursued by the Roma civic emancipation movement. The source materials are published in original and translated in English, and are accompanied by explanatory notes and summarising comments discussing the specific historical realities and their interrelation to the Romani emancipatory movement in Central and Eastern Europe, thus presenting a comprehensive picture of the historical processes."

#RomaPeople #Romani

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https://brill.com/display/title/58332

Barros_heritage, 18 days ago to history

COMMUNITIES AND MUSEUMS IN THE 21st CENTURY. Shared Histories and Climate Action.
Edited by Karen Brown, Alissandra Cummins, Ana S. González Rueda. #ICOM #Routledge #OpenAccess #Book 2023

"Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage, and sustainability."

"Communities and Museums in the 21st Century proposes creative and sustainable strategies relevant to a globalised future. With its focus on global societal challenges, this book will appeal to museologists and museum practitioners, as well as those working in heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies, art history, gender studies, and sustainable development."

#Museum #Memory #Heritage #History #Culture #Bookstodon #Libraries

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https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003288138/communities-museums-21st-century-karen-brown-alissandra-cummins-ana-gonz%C3%A1lez-rueda?_ga=977346299.1714401136&_gl=1

Barros_heritage, 18 days ago to spain

"The Guardia Civil investigates the theft of the remains of a victim of Franco's regime in the ravine where Lorca was killed" by Álvaro López (in Spanish) #ElDiarioEs

"The events took place this weekend and have already been reported to the Civil Guard. As explained by the team of scientists and historians who have been working since 2021 in this location, where Franco murdered hundreds of people in the first months of the Guardia Civil, “when they arrived at the grave they found that the different measures to protect the remains (geotextile, boards and bags) had been altered”. Upon discovery, they were also able to verify that the remains of one of the victims being exhumed were missing".

#Francoism #Lorca #Spain #España #Fascism #MassGraves #History

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https://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/granada/roban-restos-victima-franquismo-barranco-mataron-lorca_1_11327550.html

Barros_heritage, 21 days ago to Turkey

"Getty Museum restitutes ancient bronze head to Turkey" by Elena Goukassian #TheArtNewspaper

"Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum will return an ancient bronze sculpture of a young man’s head to Turkey after an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office revealed that it had been looted in the 1960s.

Head From a Statue of a Youth (1st century BC-1st century AD), a bronze head with curly hair and light stubble on the chin, is believed to have been created as a separate cast from the rest of a now-lost life-size body that has never been identified. Researchers know the figure was once whole, because the neck has “evidence of ancient joins on the interior along the break”, according to a press release
, and the eyes—now mere holes in the metal—were “once inlaid with an unknown material”."

#Getty #CulturalHeritage #Turkey #Statue #Museum

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https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/04/25/getty-museum-restitutes-ancient-bronze-head-turkey

Barros_heritage, 21 days ago to anthropology

"‘Recipe for disaster’: Venice entry fee sparks confusion and protest on day one" by Angela Giuffrida #TheGuardian

"On the first day of what the mayor of Venice has hailed as a bold experiment in reducing over-tourism, day-trippers faced a €5 (£4.30) charge, which kicked in at 8.30am on Thursday and will apply on 29 peak days until 14 July as part of a trial.

The scheme is intended to help the city better manage the millions of tourists that visit every year, even if it only applies to those coming just for the day – and even if, as critics argue, the relatively low cost is unlikely to prove a deterrent."

"Most of the day-trippers arriving at Santa Lucia came prepared with a QR code proving they had paid the toll, but there was still confusion among people with hotel bookings who were unaware they still had to go through the process of confirming their exemption online."

#Tourism #Venice

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/confusion-protests-first-day-venice-tourist-charge

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to academiccommunity

"Is It Possible to Decolonise a Biennial?" by Manuel Borja-Villel #ArtReview

"Operating under the title Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th Venice Biennale promises to be both inclusive and a gesture towards decolonising one of the world’s foremost largescale exhibitions. But is it possible to decolonise a biennial? Can a decolonising discourse radically transform the institution?"

" I am quite sure that the Venice Biennale will grant visibility to some narratives that have been unjustly silenced, if not repressed. Nevertheless, if the people who produced those narratives are denied the possibility of creating their own frames of reference and cannot determine their own forms of governance, then Foreigners Everywhere will remain once more an empty gesture. Decolonisation is a two-way street."

#VeniceBiennale #ContemporaryArt #Decolonising

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https://artreview.com/is-it-possible-to-decolonise-a-biennial-venice-biennale-2024-foreigners-everywhere/

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to spain Spanish

“The democratic memory also serves to repair the Roma people” by Sofía Pérez Mendoza #ElDiarioEs #Spain #Spanish

“The Government is going to approve a Memory Commission, foreseen in the law of 2022, which will give rise to measures of "truth, justice, and reparation" for this community, whose history is one of the most unknown. With the help of historians, we recover large and small episodes to fill in the gaps.”

#History #Racism #RomaPeople #Memory

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https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/memoria-democratica-sirve-reparar-pueblo-gitano_1_11284918.htmlp

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to history

Los desafíos del patrimonio cultural ‘negativo’

Is there such a thing as negative cultural heritage? The surprising answer is yes. We usually think of cultural heritage as something positive, but it is not always positive for everyone.

#CulturalHeritage #PatrimonioCultural #NegativeHeritage #History #Historia

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https://theconversation.com/los-desafios-del-patrimonio-cultural-negativo-225853

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to books

THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF HERITAGE AND POLITICS by Bozoğlu, Gönül; Campbell, Gary; Smith, Laurajane; Whitehead, Christopher (editors)
#Routledge #Books

I am reading this book. Very interesting, but very expensive (cheaper ebook version).

"The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics surveys the intersection of heritage and politics today and helps elucidate the political implications of heritage practices. It explicitly addresses the political and analyses tensions and struggles over the distribution of power."

#Heritage #CulturalHeritage #History #Politics #Political #Power #Bookstodon #Libraries

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https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Heritage-and-Politics/Bozoglu-Campbell-Smith-Whitehead/p/book/9781032292601

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to Aruba

COLECCION ARUBA

"The Aruba Collection (Coleccion Aruba) is the documentary heritage portal for the island nation of Aruba, and is the result of the cooperation of Aruba's documentary heritage institutions".

https://coleccion.aw/pages/en/home-en/

#CulturalHeritage #InternetArchive #Aruba #Documentation #Archive #Collection #Digital #History #Culture

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Aruba Launches Digital Heritage Portal, Preserving Its History and Culture for Global Access

https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/08/aruba-launches-digital-heritage-portal-preserving-its-history-and-culture-for-global-access/

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to spain

SPANISH CIVIL WAR. A VIRTUAL MUSEUM.

"The only museum on the Spanish Civil War, which is online and has been promoted from Canada, is in full expansion. Opened a year and a half ago, the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War has just surpassed 71,000 visits coinciding with the opening of four new galleries, the addition of more than 150 entries and the translation into French of all content, which is also available in English and Spanish." Source: #ElDiario

#Spain #España #History #Historia #SpanishCivilWar #Museum #VirtualMuseum

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VIRTUAL MUSEUM: https://www.vscw.ca/en/node

https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/unico-museo-guerra-civil-virtual-alojado-canada-crece-espana-hay-miedo-afrontar-pasado_1_11241291.html

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to art

"How a City Agency Saves New York’s Discarded Objects for Art" by Lisa Wong Macabasco #ARTNews

"As New York’s largest creative-reuse center and a program of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts collects a boundless array of reusable materials from businesses and individuals that are then made available to nonprofits, schools, and other city agencies, thus diverting some 1.7 million pounds of materials from landfills in 2023.

The first donation Fremont received for what would become Materials for the Arts was 50 glass exhibition cases from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which to this day continues to gift materials to MFTA, like a large cache of recently digitized slides."

#Art #NewYork #MFTA #Creativity #ReUse #ContemporaryArt

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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/materials-for-the-arts-nyc-profile-1234701396/

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to history

Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary #TheGuardian

"The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. However, while overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant physical remaining traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world."

#StHelena #Colonialism #Africa #CulturalHeritage #Slavery #History

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/mar/27/buried-how-we-choose-to-remember-the-transatlantic-slave-trade

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to art

"Someone told me recently that ‘rock art is dead.’ If ‘Art’ was dead, that would not matter to we Aborigines. We have never thought of our rock-paintings as ‘Art.’ To us they are IMAGES. IMAGES with ENERGIES that keep us ALIVE—EVERY PERSON, EVERYTHING WE STAND ON, ARE MADE FROM; EAT AND LIVE ON.
[…]
Instead of talking about ‘Rock Art’, we should be thinking about our responsibility to keep all things of Nature alive, to STIMULATE those places the way Aborigines have always done in the past."

This is a quote from the well-known statement about 'rock art' by David Mowaljarlai (Mowanjum community, Western Australia).

Mowaljarlai, David, Patricia Vinnicombe, Graeme K. Ward, and Christopher Chippindale. 1988. “Repainting of images on rock in Australia and the maintenance of Aboriginal culture”. Antiquity 62 (237): 690-696.

#RockArt #Image #Art

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269164534_REPAINTING_OF_IMAGES_ON_ROCK_IN_AUSTRALIA_AND_THE_MAINTENANCE_OF_ABORIGINAL_CULTURE_1988

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to history Spanish

“Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum Contends with Its Colonial History” by Harrison Jacobs #ArtNews

#Shangai #Museum #Colonialism #Art #ContemporaryArt

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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/rockbund-art-museum-hu-yun-royal-asiatic-society-shanghai-1234700768/

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to academicchatter

Sudan: UNESCO calls for the protection of the World Heritage Site of the Island of Meroe

"UNESCO is deeply concerned about recent reports of military activities on the Island of Meroe, in Sudan, whose archaeological sites are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Organization calls on parties not to target or use these sites for military purposes."

"Following reports indicating military activities in this area, UNESCO calls on all concerned parties to fully respect international law, including the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which stipulates that cultural property must neither be targeted nor used for military purposes, and is following the evolving situation very closely."

#Sudan #Unesco #CulturalHeritage #CulturalProperty #Meroe

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https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2648

Barros_heritage, 1 month ago to berlin

"'We are dealing with fundamentalist rightwingers’: Berlin statues are latest battleground in Germany’s culture wars" by Philip Oltermann (#TheGuardian)

"Silently towering into the grey Berlin sky, the latest addition to the German capital’s skyline is easily missed by passengers passing along the Unter den Linden boulevard below. Eight statues of Old Testament prophets, each more than 3 metres tall and weighing 3 tonnes, were installed last week in a circular formation around the cupola of the palace in the centre of the metropolis."

“It appears that we are dealing with a targeted infiltration of the Berlin palace by fundamentalist rightwingers who want to turn it into symbol of a Christian and thereby ‘white’ ethnic Germany,” said Jürgen Zimmerer."

#Berlin #Germany #Culture #Monument #Religion

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/23/we-are-dealing-with-fundamentalist-rightwingers-berlin-statues-are-latest-battleground-in-germanys-culture-wars

Barros_heritage, 2 months ago to politics

De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies (2023) #OpenAccess #Book by M. Reuchamps, J. Vrydagh and Y Welp (eds.).

"Citizens’ Assemblies (CAs) are flourishing around the world. Quite often composed of randomly selected citizens, CAs, arguably, come as a possible answer to contemporary democratic challenges. Democracies worldwide are indeed confronted with a series of disruptive phenomena such as a widespread perception of distrust and growing polarization as well as low performance. Many actors seek to reinvigorate democracy with citizen participation and deliberation. CAs are expected to have the potential to meet this twofold objective."

#Oapen #Politics #Political #Democracy #CitizensAssemblies #DeGruyter #Bookstodon #Libraries

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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63773