Whose memories? Whose victimhood? Contests for the Holocaust frame in recent social movement discourse

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The Holocaust brings to mind portraits of persecuted and unjustly punished people suffering from the hand of tyrannical bigots. Half a century after this war atrocity, marginalized social groups are claiming these images to represent the discriminatory treatment given them. Homosexual groups point to Christian extremists as their persecutors. The Christian activists, on the other hand, claim that they are the ones being oppressed by gay groups.

Analysis, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Social movements, Religious Right (American politics), Religious right, Gay liberation movement, Gay rights movement

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Communication technologies and their effect on cultural homogeneity, consensus and the diffusion of new ideas

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The advent of increasingly sophisticated communications technologies is expected to result in patterns of social behavior that are radically different from those existing in contemporary society. The sociocultural landscapes of cultural homogeneity, consensus and diffusion are predicted to be the most affected by these technologies. A constructural theory of communications technologies as artificial agents of change is presented.

Models, Technological innovations, Interpersonal relations, Change, Change (Philosophy)

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Discourse and display: the modern eye, entrepreneurship, and the cultural transformation of the patchwork quilt

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The efforts of two cultural entrepreneurs, Holstein and van der Hoof, to persuade members of the fine art world is explored to appreciate quilts on purely artistic grounds. They worked to legitimize them as artistic work by using the architecture of the museum, writing and photography and created specific interpretive strategies of discourse and display to reshape the cultural image of quilts.

Criticism and interpretation, Businesspeople, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurs, Holstein, Friedrich von, Hoof, van der

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