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1996, San Francisco, CA I reached up and grabbed my boss's boney
little shoulders and shook him trying to make my point. He looked
at his secretary, who was standing nearby, and said "You're a
witness. I've just been harassed." I didn't realize at that moment
that this would be the end of my career with El Paso Natural Gas
and that I would soon be on my way to exciting new adventures in
New Mexico. Or that these adventures would include a booth at the
Tesuque Flea Market and a log cabin with a curse.
In Democracy at the Crossroads, the editors argue that there have
been too few scholarly attempts to provide a comprehensive critique
of the assumptions behind citizenship education. In particular,
they ask the distinguished contributors to this volume to address
difficult but essential questions that are often avoided or
intentionally overlooked: What do all-embracing terms like 'global
citizenship' really mean? What does democracy mean internationally?
A timely work, Democracy at the Crossroads provides a necessary
examination and re-interpretation of international perspectives on
democracy and global citizenship as they apply to social education.
First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike. "Confiscated by colonial police throughout the world since its 1957 publication, THE COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED is an important document of our times, an invaluable warning for all future generations."--The Los Angeles Times
1996, San Francisco, CA I reached up and grabbed my boss's boney
little shoulders and shook him trying to make my point. He looked
at his secretary, who was standing nearby, and said "You're a
witness. I've just been harassed." I didn't realize at that moment
that this would be the end of my career with El Paso Natural Gas
and that I would soon be on my way to exciting new adventures in
New Mexico. Or that these adventures would include a booth at the
Tesuque Flea Market and a log cabin with a curse.
In Democracy at the Crossroads, the editors argue that there have
been too few scholarly attempts to provide a comprehensive critique
of the assumptions behind citizenship education. In particular,
they ask the distinguished contributors to this volume to address
difficult but essential questions that are often avoided or
intentionally overlooked: What do all-embracing terms like 'global
citizenship' really mean? What does democracy mean internationally?
A timely work, Democracy at the Crossroads provides a necessary
examination and re-interpretation of international perspectives on
democracy and global citizenship as they apply to social education.
"... I was able to make a simple gesture which left no permanent
mark on the land."In 1979 Marlene Creates signaled her intent. In
contrast to the monumental earthworks of that time, she revealed
that her interest in the intersection of art and the natural world
was with the ephemeral, the small scale, and the non-monumental,
and with place, "not as a geographical location," she writes, "but
as a process that involves memory, multiple narratives, ecology,
language, and both scientific and vernacular knowledge."
Supplementing the impermanence of her artistic gestures with the
technology of photography, Creates found an audience and created a
body of work without peer.Creates has sensitvely probed the
relationship between human experience and the natural world for
almost four decades. From her early works that record traces of the
human body on the land to her later explorations of poetry in situ
in the boreal forest and photography as an active medium -- where
the rush of water over the lens transforms the artist's own image
-- Creates leads us with an environmental and cultural
consciousness to a greater understanding of the language of the
natural world and our "places" in it.It is no easy task to sum up,
in a single book, a career that privileges the act over the
artifact, the moment over the monument. But under the direction of
curator-critics Susan Gibson Garvey and Andrea Kunard, Marlene
Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses offers not only a broad view of
her work in photography but also a critical appreciation of her
multi-disciplinary approach (assemblages, memory-map drawings, and
video-poems) through essays by Gibson Garvey and Kunard, art
historian Joan M. Schwartz, nature writer Robert Macfarlane, and
poet Don McKay.Marlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses
accompanies a major retrospective touring exhibition organized by
the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in partnership with the Dalhousie Art
Gallery. It will open in Fredericton in September 2017 and
thereafter will be shown at galleries in Halifax, Charlottetown,
St. John's, and other venues in central and western Canada.
... jai pu intervenir simplement, sans laisser de traces durables
sur le terrain. Jeune encore, lartiste Marlene Creates signalait
deja en 1979 son intention de se demarquer des installations de
terrassement monumentales de lepoque pour sinteresser, au confluent
de lart et du monde naturel, a lephemere, a la petite echelle, au
non monumental et au lieu, " pas tant comme endroit geographique, "
ecrit-elle, " que comme processus qui inclut la memoire, une
multiplicite de recits, lecologie, le langage et le savoir, tant
vernaculaire que scientifique. " En palliant le caractere ephemere
de ses interventions grace aux techniques photographiques, elle a
su trouver son public et creer une uvre hautement originale. Depuis
pres de quatre decennies, Creates sattarde avec sensibilite aux
rapports entre lexperience humaine et le monde naturel. Des ses
premieres uvres, preservant les empreintes du corps humain sur le
sol, et jusqua ses plus recentes explorations de poesie in situ
dans la foret boreale et de photographie comme medium actif, ou
elle laisse le ruissellement de leau sur lobjectif brouiller son
autoportrait, Creates exerce sa grande vigilance ecologique et
culturelle pour nous amener a mieux comprendre le langage du monde
naturel et les " lieux " que nous y occupons. Il est difficile de
rendre compte en un seul volume dune carriere qui a prefere lacte a
lartefact, le moment au monument. Or, sous la direction des
commissaires-critiques Susan Gibson Garvey et Andrea Kunard, Lieux,
sentiers et pauses propose au lecteur, en plus dune large gamme des
uvres photographiques de Marlene Creates, un examen critique de sa
demarche multidisciplinaire (assemblages, croquis de cartes-memoire
et poemes sur video) grace aux essais de Gibson Garvey, de Kunard,
de lhistorienne de lart Joan M. Schwartz, de lecrivain ecologiste
Robert Macfarlane et du poete Don McKay. Marlene Creates : Lieux,
sentiers et pauses accompagne limportante retrospective itinerante
organisee par la galerie d'art Beaverbrook, en partenariat avec la
Dalhousie Art Gallery. Apres son vernissage a Fredericton en
septembre 2017, lexposition visitera Halifax, Charlottetown, St.
Johns et dautres villes du centre et de louest du Canada.
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