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private memories from the Congo freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914)
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Natermann, Diana Miryong
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- WER 1D 2018
- Thesaurus
- kolonialisme, etnische verhoudingen, identiteit, migratie, Afrika, Europa, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, egodocument
- Description
- Book about the colonial history from a whiteness studies perspective. It focuses on the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and the way they described their identities in Africa. The transcolonial approach is based on egodocuments from Belgian, German and Swedish men and women who migrated to Central Africa for several reasons such as social betterment or new gender roles. The author presents how colonisers constructed their whiteness related to people of lower status in everyday situations, connected tot friendships, gender and food.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stone, Dan > [ed]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- WER 1E 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- geschiedenis, oorlog en vrede, etniciteit, migratie, burgerschap, identiteit, gender, verzorgingsstaat, economie, kolonialisme, technologie, communisme, nationaal socialisme, Europa, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This book covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Oorspr. uitgave: 2012
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jansen, Willy > (ed.)
- Creator
- Notermans, Catrien > (ed.)
- Creator
- Hickey, Maeve > (photos)
- Creator
- Gemzöe, Lena
- Creator
- Fedele, Anna
- Creator
- Samson, Judith
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Taylor, Lawrence
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- bedevaarten, religie, christendom, heiligen, identiteit, migratie, nationaliteit, new age beweging, gender, seksualiteit, Europa, bundel
- Description
- The contributions can be shared under three topics: gender and sexual emancipation, (trans)national identities in the context of migration, and European unification and religious identifications in a changing religious landscape. Contains contributions about: Africans renewing family ties at Lourdes: Swedish women at midlife or young English men testing their strength on the Camino to Santiago de Compostela: New Age pilgrims and sexuality: Saints' festivals in Spain and Brittany: conservative Catholics challenging Europe's liberal policies on abortion: Polish migrants and French Algerians reconfiguring their transnational identity by transporting their familiar Madonna to their new home: new sacred spaces created such as the shrine of Our Lady of Santa Cruz: traditional Christian saints such as Mary Magdalene given new meanings as new age goddess: foundation legends of shrines revived by new visionaries.
masculinity, femininity and ethnicity in post-war Britain
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ryan, Louise > (ed.)
- Creator
- Webster, Wendy > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1E 2008
- Thesaurus
- migratie, immigranten, vluchtelingen, verpleegkundigen, mannelijkheid, vrouwelijkheid, etniciteit, identiteit, eerste wereldoorlog, Aziatisch, Duits, Iers, Koerdisch, Oost-Afrikaans, Pakistaans, Spaans, Europa, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1940-1949, 20e eeuw, statistiek
- Description
- This publication examines migration through the lens of gender and ethnicity and the contribution this perspective makes to migration histories. It focuses on the history of migration to Britain after the second world war. The volume draws on oral narratives as well as documentary and archival research to demonstrate the role played by gender and ethnicity, both in ideas and images of migrants and in migrants' own experiences. The contributors consider a range of migrant and refugee groups who came to Britain in the twentieth century.
a reader in European women's studies
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Griffin, Gabriele > (ed.)
- Creator
- Braidotti, Rosi > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Lafuente, Maria S. Suárez
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3347 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenstudies, vrouwenbewegingen, identiteit, feminisme, migratie, geweld, oorlog en vrede, etniciteit, gender, psychoanalyse, mensenrechten, cultuur, historisch, vrouwenorganisaties, Europa, bundel
- Description
- The editors wanted to cover the following themes, which figure as section headings within this volume: Women as social and political entities, culture and signification, identity, subjectivity and difference, race and ethnicity, violence against women: European perspectives, sex/gender terminology and its implications and the rises and falls of the women's movements in Europe.
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