The Guggenheim foundation and the rhetoric of cultural planning in Vilnius
The fact that a Guggenheim museum is being planned for Vilnius is indicative of the conviction that "de-provincialization" can only be achieved by taking part in global projects. Meanwhile, the cultural demands of the local population go unheeded. [Bulgarian version added] [ more ]
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(1969) is a political scientist and teaches political education at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Four decades of the new women's movement
In 1968, feminists broke onto the male-dominated German Left with a well-aimed tomato and demands for anti-authoritarian day-care centres. Forty years on, Stefanie Ehmsen reviews German feminism's march through the institutions. [more]
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