Statelessness

Siegelberg, Mira L.

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“…The map of the world, it seemed, would need to be remade entirely'. 36 In the face of the upheaval of the Second World War, Schwitters was faced with an additional political quandary: how did the identity category 'German' constrict or override the category 'artist'? How could he continue to express himself in his displaced circumstance?…”

Section: Schwitters and The Liberty To Uttermentioning

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‘Liberty to bend a piece of wire into a space sculpture’: Stefan Themerson, Kurt Schwitters, and the rhetoric around rights and refugees

Chambers

2024

Literature & History

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PEN International's 1948 charter and its accession to NGO status made it one of the most globally recognisable institutions promoting and securing freedom of expression for writers and artists as a fundamental human right. PEN's transition from dinner club to NGO involved a post-war reckoning with how to respond to institutional abuses of power and how to secure rights for those who had lost the traditional protections of the state. George Orwell and Stefan Themerson, writing on the 1944 PEN conference, offer insight into the political challenges PEN faced after the Second World War regarding state power and the rights of refugees.

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Section: Schwitters and The Liberty To Uttermentioning

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‘Liberty to bend a piece of wire into a space sculpture’: Stefan Themerson, Kurt Schwitters, and the rhetoric around rights and refugees

Chambers

2024

Literature & History

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“…With statelessness, as seen above, standing at odds with many of the canonical assumptions about Western statehood, both official and popular narratives 'tended to reinforce the idea that a person without a nationality belonged to the realm of fiction'. 84 At the same time, it was primarily literary fiction, not legal or political action, that 'most accurately portrayed the reality of statelessness', introducing 'the real plight of people without the protection of national status into wider popular consciousness'. 85 Since the 1990s, literary scholars and philosophers, such as Martha Nussbaum, have increasingly commented on the crucial role of literature for developing key 'citizenship skills', such as the ability to understand and empathize with the experience of strangers.…”

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“…84 At the same time, it was primarily literary fiction, not legal or political action, that 'most accurately portrayed the reality of statelessness', introducing 'the real plight of people without the protection of national status into wider popular consciousness'. 85 Since the 1990s, literary scholars and philosophers, such as Martha Nussbaum, have increasingly commented on the crucial role of literature for developing key 'citizenship skills', such as the ability to understand and empathize with the experience of strangers. 86 The educational benefit of novels such as The Death Ship for a wider and deeper understanding of statelessness remains relevant to this day, especially since statelessness has continued to be both an underreported and ambiguous category.…”

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Administering Exclusion: Statelessness, Identity Papers and Narrative Strategy in B. Traven’s Das Totenschiff (1926)

Mandelbaum

2021

Forum for Modern Language Studies

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Once an international best-seller but largely unknown today, B. Traven’s novel Das Totenschiff (The Death Ship) of 1926 presents a scathing critique of state bureaucracy and raises questions about the nature of authority, identity, home, and belonging in communal life. Reading the novel alongside relevant texts from political theory, I examine Traven’s text in the light of the history of bureaucracy and statelessness that surrounded and drove its production. Traven will be shown to provide a compelling critique of modern structures of communal organization, both on the level of content and in his multi-layered, non-linear style which runs counter to the more confined consecutive exposition of traditional forms, such as the biographical novel. By disrupting established ways of narrating the dynamics of individualization and belonging, Das Totenschiff reveals some of the complex elements of bureaucratically administered exclusion, as carried forth in objects such as the passport.

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“…The impact of complex humanitarian crises on such families is worsened by the emergence of mass destitution, homelessness, statelessness, and mass deportation to their country of origin [13]. This means that they have no home, lack a fixed abode or address, and do not belong to any state.…”

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Innovative Family Therapy for Households in Global Complex Humanitarian Crises

Ilesanmi¹,

Ilesanmi²,

Hajji³

2023

Family Therapy - Recent Advances in Clinical and Crisis Settings

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The relief societies are diverse and consist of humanitarian organizations and humanitarian NGOs. They provide emergency aid interventions to victims of armed conflicts, protracted wars, famines, and natural disasters across the globe. The relief societies have witnessed multiple arrays of complex humanitarian catastrophes affecting families in varying degrees in a global dimension and impact. These societies have been providing lifesaving assistance and protection for victims of war, orphans, and vulnerable groups. They have been reducing the impact of humanitarian crises on families and communities, providing aid for recovery and improving preparedness for future emergencies for moral, altruistic, and emotional reasons. Crisis-impacted families may be located far from the fragile locale or in the eye of the storm. Their losses may be psychosocial, economic, or psychological distress or mental health issues. At the onset of the Russian–Ukrainian War, families across the global community are already counting their losses. These call for novel therapeutic interventions among clinicians and counseling psychotherapists. This chapter, therefore, highlights existing strategies for innovative therapeutic measures for families affected by complex humanitarian emergencies.

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Statelessness

Cited by 7 publications

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‘Liberty to bend a piece of wire into a space sculpture’: Stefan Themerson, Kurt Schwitters, and the rhetoric around rights and refugees

‘Liberty to bend a piece of wire into a space sculpture’: Stefan Themerson, Kurt Schwitters, and the rhetoric around rights and refugees

Administering Exclusion: Statelessness, Identity Papers and Narrative Strategy in B. Traven’s Das Totenschiff (1926)

Innovative Family Therapy for Households in Global Complex Humanitarian Crises

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