Good afternoon,
some articles, which might be of some interest to you:
"Hidden among fields of flapping white plastic tents across Ragusa
province, 5,000 Romanian women like Bolos are working as seasonal
agricultural workers. Their treatment is a growing human rights scandal,
being perpetrated with almost complete impunity..”
" Raped, beaten, exploited: the 21st-century slavery propping up
Sicilian farming" :
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/12/slavery-sicily-farming-raped-beaten-exploited-romanian-women
"Ekirch’s subsequent work offered evidence that a segmented nighttime
pattern persisted well into the twentieth century in many non-Western
locales, including among indigenous cultures in Nigeria, Central
America, and Brazil. During the period of nighttime wakefulness, Ekirch
showed, different cultures elaborated rituals—of prayer, lovemaking,
dream interpretation, or security checks—and while the rituals varied,
the pattern itself was so pervasive as to suggest an evolutionary basis
that somehow became disrupted in the modern West."
Sleeping Through the Night Is a Relatively New Invention:
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/03/sleeping-through-the-night-is-a-relatively-new-invention.html
"The Middle East was a primary theater for Cold War politics. And in
this articulation, modern art was a measure of tyranny versus freedom.
To show that the artists in this region were already imbued with a sense
of the modern was to counter the narrative that the Middle East needed
to become modern by entering the Western sphere of influence. Did Cold
War politics, in which Barr and MoMA were embedded, lead to a political
decision to exclude Iranian and Arab art from the canon of modernism? If
the decision to show the works in 2017 as a protest against the travel
ban was ultimately a political one, so too was the choice to keep the
work off MoMA’s walls for half a century."
http://hyperallergic.com/365397/momas-travel-ban-protest-exposes-a-legacy-of-closeted-modernism/
Have a nice day!
All the best!
stephanie
