Author: Eleni Bastéa File Type: pdf Using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the essays in Memory and Architecture examine the role of memory in the creation of our built environment. Part I, Designing National Memories, examines the ways institutions and individuals construct national memory. Eric Sandweiss discusses American urban history museums Mark Jarzombek addresses the reconstruction of Dresden, Germany Fernando Lara contrasts Brazilian modern architecture to earlier European modernism and Maria de Lourdes Luz and Ana Lucia Santos look at Brazilian history through the prism of the coffee plantation system. Part II, Literary Memory Spaces, focuses on the treatment of place in literature. Sabir Khan spotlights the experiences of two South Asian women who return to their homelands after several years abroad to discover changes in their native landscape. Barbara Mann explores the Old Cemetry in Tel Aviv, while Carel Bertram considers images of the Turkish house, and Eleni Bastea examines the cities of Thessaloniki and Istanbul as reflected in literary novels. Part III, Personal Cartographies, comprises three personal essays Catherine Hamel on Beirut, Christine Gorby on Belfast, and V. B. Price on Los Angeles and Albuquerque. The Voices from the Studio in Part IV considers the ways memory may apply to the teaching of architecture. Thomas Fisher writes about the state of architectural education, Rachel Hurst and Jane Lawrence describe their teaching methods. Sheona Thomson examines the relationship between the spaces of architecture and the spaces of literature asking, Why couldnt we be drawn more often into learning about architecture by studying how it has been painted by Giotto, or described by Virginia Woolf, or, for that matter, by being asked to reflect on our own recollections of place? **

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Author: Jonathan Ellis File Type: pdf The first book to look at poets letters seriously as an art form Fifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth-century to Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the twentieth. In doing so, they respond to the following questions. Who are the great letter writers of the past? Why is reading other peoples mail so addictive? What is the relationship between letter writing and other literary genres such as poetry? Divided into three sections - Contexts and Issues, Romantic and Victorian Letter Writing, and Twentieth-Century Letter Writing - the volume demonstrates that real letters still have an allure that virtual post struggles to replicate. **About the Author Dr. Jonathan Ellis is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop (Ashgate, 2006). His articles and essays on twentieth-century poetry have appeared in various journals, including English, The Journal of Modern Literature, Mosaic, PN Review and Poetry Ireland Review. He is currently co-editing (with Angus Cleghorn) The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (2014).

Author: Danielle Celermajer File Type: pdf There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture An Ecological Approach interrogates the worlds that produce torture, in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Critics have decried human rights approaches failure to attend to structural factors, but this book seeks to go beyond a stance of criticism to take up the positive project of reimagining human rights theory and practice. It discusses key debates in human rights and political theory, as well as the challenges that advocates face in translating situational analyses into real world interventions. Danielle Celermajer develops a new, ecological framework for mapping the worlds that produce torture, and thereby develops prevention strategies. **Review Advance praise Torture has been used in most countries, for the powerful to extract information from victims, and to punish dissidents for alleged wrong doings. To begin to understand this form of institutional violence we must realize it is less about aberrant individuals than it is about pathological social situations. In her powerful book, The Prevention of Torture An Ecological Approach, author Professor Danielle Celermajer has taken this situational hypothesis, and combined it with rich empirical research on the actual situations where systematic torture occurs. Most uniquely, she has devised a new analysis that can form the foundation of effective prevention strategies. This book is theoretically sophisticated, practically oriented and ethically penetrating. It is must reading as a major step forward in how we think about torture globally, andthen actually goabout preventing torture. Philip G. Zimbardo, Stanford University Advance praise Celermajers book brings together deftly practical policy work and social theory. Institutions arent cruel people are. And we do not get any closer to adequate explanations, much less prevention, if we cannot link institutional outcomes to the ordinary motivations people have for doing what they do. Otherwise, we commit the scholastic fallacy, filling the minds of violators with thoughts they could not possibly have had but which seem plausible to a society of scholars. Celermajers situationalist approach takes in painful fieldwork in South Asia, while illuminating the philosophical complexity of causation when people torture others. Darius Rejali, Reed College, Oregon Advance praise Torture is one of the most brutal violations of human rights and a direct attack on the core of human dignity. In her fascinating book The Prevention of Torture, Danielle Celermajer studies the factors that condition and sustain torture, in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. As the founder and first director of the Asia-Pacific Master in Human Rights and Democratisation, she is able to draw on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal. Her systemic approach to human rights also offers a refreshing response to Samuel Moyn and similar theoretical voices criticizing the very concept of human rights as overly individualistic or as even being complicit with neo-liberal economic policies. Manfred Nowak, Vienna University and Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, previously UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Advance praise Celermajers examination of the complexity of causality is invaluable to the field. Her call to address the entire ecology of torture, while not discarding the individual culpability, is one that we should heed. A remarkable achievement, The Prevention of Torture, in its careful analysis of theory and praxis, will inform the work of those who seek to stop torture for many years to come. Dinah Pokempner, General Counsel, Human Rights Watch Advance praise The Prevention of Torture An Ecological Approach is a bold, original and powerful reflection on societys approaches to wicked problems, not just torture prevention. The author has demonstrated convincingly why doing more of the same (law reform, human rights training, punishment and deterrence) is not enough. She has the foresight and wisdom to design a rigorous research project, the tenacity and strength to endure the obstacles that were thrown her way, and the humility and generosity to create this important book that will change forever how we conceive of and tackle problems such as torture prevention. Janet Chan, University of New South Wales Advance praise With this book, Danielle Celermajer has made both a significant contribution to the conceptualization and practice of human rights advocacy as well as to a public health approach to understanding and preventing traumatic violence and abuse in security settings. She brings an ecological or systems approach to understanding the multiple conditions that lead to the unlawful use of force, particularly torture. This important addition to the torture prevention toolkit brings a collaborative approach to complement the more adversarial legal and prosecutorial approaches that have dominated human rights practices. The lessons learned in this book can be applied not only to police and military settings worldwide, but to any setting where violence prevention is being addressed. Jack Saul, Director of the International Trauma Studies Program Book Description Critics have decried human rights approaches a failure to attend to structural factors, but this book seeks to go beyond a stance of criticism. It takes up the positive project of reimagining how, human rights could attend to the worlds that produce systematic violations like torture so as to prevent it.