Lille Jonna er skildringen af pigen Jonnas barske opvækst i 1950'erne, og om familiens triste kamp for at forbedre tilværelsen og komme bort fra kommunens husvildebolig. Den lange sommer er en selvstændig fortsættelse. De to romaner fortæller en kvindes udviklingshistorie fra barn til voksen, men også en skildring af en familie og dens medlemmer i 50'ernes og 60'ernes Danmark. Samlet nu for første gang i anledning af Thorups forfatterjubilæum marts 2007.
De to romaner genudgives samlet i ny udgave på Kirsten Thorups 80-års fødselsdag, 9. februar 2022. Lille Jonna og Den lange sommer skildrer en ung kvinde og hendes families udviklingshistorie op igennem 50’erne og 60’ernes Danmark. Lille Jonna udspiller sig i en lille landsby på Fyn, hvor vi følger Jonna og hendes familie. Det er en tidløs historie om en familie, der er præget af klassesamfundets hykleri og elendighed, om fattigdom og skam og angsten for at glide længere ned. Men også om omsorg og drømmen om et bedre liv. I Den lange sommer skal Jonna i gymnasiet. I sommerferien tjener hun penge på sit arbejde på en fabrik, alt imens forholdet til forældrene bliver mere og mere anstrengt. Hun tager turen til København, men også her byder livet på udfordringer.
Hur låter det när en skalle spricker? Bonk? Thbonk? Thvonk?Det undrar gymnasieläraren John när han på en nerklottrad nattklubbstoalett blir hörselvittne till hur hans forna kärlek och sambo Jonna slår ihjäl en man i båset bredvid. Ögonblicket slungar ut John på en resa genom starka känslor och förtärande hopp i en dimmig tidskarusell utan ände. Han minns, ser och gräver. När fler liknande mord begåstycker han sig skönja en gemensam nämnare: en bortglömd tv-serie som Jonna spelat huvudrollen i. Samvetskvalen hopar sig och mordgåtan tätnar: Ska han polisanmäla Jonna eller inte? Borde han varna nästa offer? Följa Jonna är en intrikat spänningsroman, en såväl surrealistisk som humoristisk berättelse.
This book provides an in depth insight into Jonna Pedersen’s artistic work in the period 2017 to 2023, and is richly illustrated with photos of works.Ph.D., Associate Professor Mette Simonsen Abildgaard’s essay “Ping! The Reflectively Nostalgic Telephone Call” offers both an exciting and historical view of the history of the telephone and the artist’s interest in this communication technology, expressed in the work series [ Fone ]. For several of the works, the artist has written small prose poems.In her essay, “The Impact of the Past on Our Lives Today”, Art Historian Mette Kristensen tells about Jonna Pedersen’s Existence series where the artist sets out to investigate impacts of the past and childhood that have the potential to prompt more general reflection on the present age and our identity and existence in a constantly changing world.The book also contains an introduction to the work “The Sexism Game” and the solo exhibition “Yes. No! Maybe...” and Jonna Pedersen’s short story “Ursula Bent”, which deals with self affirmation.--------------Denne bog giver et indgående indblik i Jonna Pedersens kunstneriske arbejde i perioden 2017 til 2023, og er rigtillustreret med fotos af værker.I teksten ”Ping! Den refleksivt nostalgiske telefonsamtale” giver Ph.D., Lektor Mette Simonsen Abildgaard en både spændende og historisk indsigt i telefonens historie og kunstnerens interesse for denne kommunikationsteknologi, udtrykt i værkserien [ Fone ]. Til flere af værkerne har kunstneren skrevet små prosadigte.I teksten ”Fortidens aftryk på vores eksistens” beretter kunsthistoriker Mette Kristensen om Jonna Pedersens værkserie Existence, hvor kunstneren undersøger forskellige aftryk fra fortiden og barndommen, som kan føre til mere overordnede refleksioner over nutiden, vores identitet og eksistens i en verden i konstant forandring.Bogen indeholder desuden en indføring i værket ”Sexismespillet” og soloudstillingen ”Ja. Nej! Måske…” samt Jonna Pedersens novelle ”Ursula Bent”, som omhandler det, at stå ved den man er.
The decisions we make about energy shape our present and our future. From geopolitical tension to environmental degradation and an increasingly unstable climate, these choices infiltrate the very air we breathe. Energy security politics has direct impact on the continued survival of human life as we know it, and the earth cannot survive if we continue consuming fossil energy at current rates. The low carbon transition is simply not happening fast enough, and change is unlikely without a radical change in how we approach energy security. But thinking on energy security has failed to keep up with these changing realities. Energy security is primarily considered to be about the availability of reliable and affordable energy supplies - having enough energy - and it remains closely linked to national security. The Energy Security Paradox looks at contemporary energy security politics in the United States and China: the top two energy consumers and producers. Based on in-depth empirical analysis, it demonstrates that current energy security practices actually lead to a security paradox: they produce insecurity. To illustrate this, it develops the 'energy security paradox' as a framework for understanding the interconnected insecurities produced by current practices. However, it also goes beyond this, examining resistance to current practices to highlight that we not only can do energy security differently: this is already happening. In the process, the volume demonstrates that the value of security depends on the context. Based on this, The Energy Security Paradox proposes a radical reconsideration of how we approach and practice energy security.
Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first time in Jonna Perrillo's "Uncivil Rights", which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present. While movements for teachers' rights and civil rights were not always in conflict, Perrillo uncovers the ways they have become so, brought about both by teachers who have come to see civil rights efforts as detracting from or competing with their own goals and by civil rights activists whose aims have deprofessionalized the role of the educator. Focusing in particular on unionized teachers, Perrillo finds a new vantage point from which to examine the relationship between school and community, showing how in this struggle, educators, activists, and especially our students have lost out.
Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first time in Jonna Perrillo's "Uncivil Rights", which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present. While movements for teachers' rights and civil rights were not always in conflict, Perrillo uncovers the ways they have become so, brought about both by teachers who have come to see civil rights efforts as detracting from or competing with their own goals and by civil rights activists whose aims have deprofessionalized the role of the educator. Focusing in particular on unionized teachers, Perrillo finds a new vantage point from which to examine the relationship between school and community, showing how in this struggle, educators, activists, and especially our students have lost out.
Compares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists in Texas with the educational disadvantages faced by Mexican American students living in the same city.Educating the Enemy begins with the 144 children of Nazi scientists who moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1946 as part of the military program called Operation Paperclip. These German children were bused daily from a military outpost to four El Paso public schools. Though born into a fascist enemy nation, the German children were quickly integrated into the schools and, by proxy, American society. Their rapid assimilation offered evidence that American public schools played a vital role in ensuring the victory of democracy over fascism. Jonna Perrillo not only tells this fascinating story of Cold War educational policy, but she draws an important contrast with another, much more numerous population of children in the El Paso public schools: Mexican Americans. Like everywhere else in the Southwest, Mexican American children in El Paso were segregated into “Mexican” schools, where the children received a vastly different educational experience. Not only were they penalized for speaking Spanish—the only language all but a few spoke due to segregation—they were tracked for low-wage and low-prestige careers, with limited opportunities for economic success. Educating the Enemy charts what two groups of children—one that might have been considered the enemy, the other that was treated as such—reveal about the ways political assimilation has been treated by schools as an easier, more viable project than racial or ethnic assimilation. Listen to an interview with the author here and read an interview in Time and a piece based on the book in the Boston Review.
Compares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists in Texas with the educational disadvantages faced by Mexican American students living in the same city.Educating the Enemy begins with the 144 children of Nazi scientists who moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1946 as part of the military program called Operation Paperclip. These German children were bused daily from a military outpost to four El Paso public schools. Though born into a fascist enemy nation, the German children were quickly integrated into the schools and, by proxy, American society. Their rapid assimilation offered evidence that American public schools played a vital role in ensuring the victory of democracy over fascism. Jonna Perrillo not only tells this fascinating story of Cold War educational policy, but she draws an important contrast with another, much more numerous population of children in the El Paso public schools: Mexican Americans. Like everywhere else in the Southwest, Mexican American children in El Paso were segregated into “Mexican” schools, where the children received a vastly different educational experience. Not only were they penalized for speaking Spanish—the only language all but a few spoke due to segregation—they were tracked for low-wage and low-prestige careers, with limited opportunities for economic success. Educating the Enemy charts what two groups of children—one that might have been considered the enemy, the other that was treated as such—reveal about the ways political assimilation has been treated by schools as an easier, more viable project than racial or ethnic assimilation. Listen to an interview with the author here and read an interview in Time and a piece based on the book in the Boston Review.
This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that emphasizes a linear plot of liberation.Taking a novel approach in focusing on the body, senses, and landscape, Jonna Katto, through a study of the women ex-combatants’ lived landscapes, shows how their life trajectories unfold as nonlinear spatial histories. This brings into focus the women’s shifting and multilayered negotiations for personal space and belonging. This book explores the life memories of the now aging female ex-combatants in the province of Niassa in northern Mozambique, looking at how the female ex-combatants’ experiences of living in these northern landscapes have shaped their sense of socio-spatial belonging and attachment. It builds on the premise that individual embodied memory cannot be separated from social memory; personal lives are culturally shaped. Thus, the book does not only tell the history of a small and rather unique group of women but also speaks about wider cultural histories of body-landscape relations in northern Mozambique and especially changes in those relations. Enriching our understanding of the gendered history of the liberation struggle in Mozambique and informing broader discussions on gender and nationalism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African history, especially the colonial and postcolonial history of Lusophone Africa, as well as gender/women’s history and peace and conflict studies.
Premature children suffering consequences of their early birth do not grow out of them, and new difficulties may appear as they mature. The sum of negative influences from the time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, eventual problems with interaction, and later a defective or delayed development, can cause continuous problems for premature chi
The words of US President John F. Kennedy, "the rising tide lifts all boats," can be applied to inclusive growth in contemporary Asia, where the poor are able to participate in and benefit from economic growth. Moving Out of Poverty explores three channels through which economic growth confers gains to the poor and improves the status of women. The first is creation of productive employment, as labor is typically the most abundant asset of the poor, and economic growth has created jobs in labor-intensive sectors. The second is investment in schooling which, coupled with increased opportunities to earn income, has elevated womens' status in society. The third is increased availability of improved infrastructure, which directly impacts increasing household income from wage work and self-employment activities.This book will be of great value to development economists, students and researchers interested in rural economies in Asia, and policymakers engaged in poverty reduction.
Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue. Suffering and omnipotence operate as twinned affects in this context, inviting identification with an American national subject constituted as both victimized and invincible—a powerful and persistent conjunction traced here across a century of cinema.
Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue. Suffering and omnipotence operate as twinned affects in this context, inviting identification with an American national subject constituted as both victimized and invincible—a powerful and persistent conjunction traced here across a century of cinema.
The word “wargames” might seem like a contradiction in terms. After all, the declaration “This is war” is meant to signal that things have turned deadly serious, that there is no more playing around. Yet the practices of war are intimately entangled with practices of gaming, from military videogames to live battle reenactments. How do these forms of play impact how both soldiers and civilians perceive acts of war? This Quick Take considers how various war games and simulations shape the ways we imagine war. Paradoxically, these games grant us a sense of mastery and control as we strategize and scrutinize the enemy, yet also allow us the thrilling sense of being immersed in the carnage and chaos of battle. But as simulations of war become more integrated into both popular culture and military practice, how do they shape our apprehension of the traumatic realities of warfare? Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.
The word “wargames” might seem like a contradiction in terms. After all, the declaration “This is war” is meant to signal that things have turned deadly serious, that there is no more playing around. Yet the practices of war are intimately entangled with practices of gaming, from military videogames to live battle reenactments. How do these forms of play impact how both soldiers and civilians perceive acts of war? This Quick Take considers how various war games and simulations shape the ways we imagine war. Paradoxically, these games grant us a sense of mastery and control as we strategize and scrutinize the enemy, yet also allow us the thrilling sense of being immersed in the carnage and chaos of battle. But as simulations of war become more integrated into both popular culture and military practice, how do they shape our apprehension of the traumatic realities of warfare? Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.
The village of Hemlock Flat, New Hampshire is deep in the torpor of record breaking heat, when Jimmy Baker, after seventeen years of no contact, returns for the funeral of his great-aunt, Altoona Baker.When sixteen-year-old Eliza Johnson dissappears on a trail run, and one of the Johnson farm's prized Highland cattle is found mangled and partially eaten by a mysterious predator, fear grips the village and a frantic search for Eliza, led by Jimmy's uncle, George Baker, the county sheriff, sweeps the area.Adrift in his great-aunt's old house in the shadow of the Croydon Mountains, Jimmy finds himself pulled back to times he has worked hard to forget, and discovers that his great-aunt, though in her grave, has things to tell him about his past and his future.
This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that emphasizes a linear plot of liberation.Taking a novel approach in focusing on the body, senses, and landscape, Jonna Katto, through a study of the women ex-combatants’ lived landscapes, shows how their life trajectories unfold as nonlinear spatial histories. This brings into focus the women’s shifting and multilayered negotiations for personal space and belonging. This book explores the life memories of the now aging female ex-combatants in the province of Niassa in northern Mozambique, looking at how the female ex-combatants’ experiences of living in these northern landscapes have shaped their sense of socio-spatial belonging and attachment. It builds on the premise that individual embodied memory cannot be separated from social memory; personal lives are culturally shaped. Thus, the book does not only tell the history of a small and rather unique group of women but also speaks about wider cultural histories of body-landscape relations in northern Mozambique and especially changes in those relations. Enriching our understanding of the gendered history of the liberation struggle in Mozambique and informing broader discussions on gender and nationalism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African history, especially the colonial and postcolonial history of Lusophone Africa, as well as gender/women’s history and peace and conflict studies.
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