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In Portuguese:
O Processo de Independência do Kosovo: Contextualização e implicações.
Published in the portuguese journal Política Internacional, n. 31, April 2008, pp 77-104.
An english version will be uploaded as soon as possible.
2 Comments
June 3, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Congratulations, Sarah, for your first peer-reviewed academic paper. May there be more to come.
I’ll have to wait for the English-language version, due to my utter inadequacy as a linguist.
June 19, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Well at least you are allowing your voice to be heard. I have had the privilege of finding out first hand on what is wrong with the American System by managing to fall from a place of privilege to a place below poverty’s depth’s of Hell. I am currently on the upswing of climbing out, but it’s a slow and hard climb. Like when I was a child and going down to the Papio Creek after a hard rain and then not being able to climb out of the steep canyon walls of collapsing mud.
I have tried to write my projects not with drama but with comedy mixed with intellectual insight. To hopefully crack open the minds of those who cannot fathom that the system does not work, period. As I have managed to slip through every safety net society thinks it has provided. Just call one of those 800 numbers and see what they say. Sure, they’ll take your donation, but ask them for something or see what they have to offer. Guess what, nothing. Yeah, sure, they have a program for this group of people or that group, all of which don’t really need it.
I wrote “Joe Frankenstein” almost entirely by waiting for the bus. I knew I would be completely stranded over a holiday weekend so I wanted to do something constructive. I knew I wanted to tell the world my story, but not have it be a downer.
It just so happened that I had made a list of all of the people who had a hand in my downfall. Then I thought of writing each blurb about them from their own mouths and suddenly I was writing a rock opera/musical.
As for myself, I have had so many reconstructive surgeries, and donor tissue parts, along with the fact that, Yes, my head is bolted on, and Yes, one of the screws IS loose. Hence “Joe Frankenstein!”
Another project I am currently pitching is “Woof.” And it’s a comedy. Actually, to fit in all of my mind opening propaganda, its a “Supernatural, Bi-Species, Action Adventure, Romantic Comedy!” I could not write a project and NOT have mind opening dialog.
As for you, your profession is an investigative journalist. You have the mindset to see what others don’t. When you voice your opinion in public you may find conflict with those who can’t see what you do.
At least you are there in the beauty of it all. I am here behind the broken down strip malls of the sixties. And I can’t even afford that. When people look at me, they don’t even fathom that it could happen to them. I was much higher and ran in much richer and educated crowds than they could even think of. Yet, here I am.
I had a line in my comedy monologue and that was: “You have to get from Point A to Point B, but how do you get to Point B when you don’t know what Point B is?” Last night, I finally realized what my ultimate point B is. And that is running a finance company, among others, from a Yacht sitting in the Mediterranean facing any of the beautiful vistas. My love for Europe and desire to return no matter what the government is doing there. I feel like a reincarnated soul trying to return to where it really belongs.
At least you are there. Embrace it!
Peppi Turco