Locating the Global – Connecting the Local
In this session we will discuss: Comaroff, Jean and John, 2012 Theory from the South, or How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa. Paradigm Press. Related link: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/268-theory-from-the-south
Andrew Herod, Scale (978-0415349086; Routledge, 2010) At our session we will not only discuss Herod's book, especially his first (The Body) and last (The Global) chapters but also the new approach of global micro history introduced by the Warwick Global History and Culture Centre, https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/research/globalmicrohistory/scalesofhistory/ as well at the Institute for Transnational & Spatial History, School …
Joint seminar and study circle with our colleagues in Falun Monday 21 May 13-16 GHL/GLOS research seminar & study circle Tuesday 22 May 10-12 GHL/GLOS study circle (cont.) The book we will read and discuss is: Karl Schlögel, In Space we Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics (2016; 978-1-941792-08-7).
This study circle will discuss the topical essays debating the state of global history. Jeremy Adelman, 'What is global history now? (2017) https://aeon.co/essays/is-global-history-still-possible-or-has-it-had-its-moment Franz Fillafer, 'A World Connecting?' (History and Theory 56:1, 2017)
We are continuing the discussion with the following texts: Richard Drayton & David Motadel, 'Discussion: the future of global history', Journal of Global History 13 (2018). Angelika Epple, Calling for a Practice Turn in Global History: Practices as Drives of Globalization/s', History and Theory 57:3 (2018).
Philip J. Ethington, 'Placing the Past: 'Groundwork' for a Spatial Theory of History', Rethinking History 11:4 (2007) Roland Wenzlhuemer, 'Globalization, communication and the concept of space in global history', Historical Social Research 35:1 (2010) Leif Jerram, 'Space: A Useless Category for Historical Analysis?', History and Theory 52:3 (2013)
Our next study circle will discuss: Mamadou Djouf 'The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project' in Development and Change Vol. 29 (1998), 671–696.
The study circle will discuss the following text: Bob Jessop (2019). Spatiotemporal Fixes and Multispatial Metagovernance: The Territory, Place, Scale, Network Scheme Revisited. In Matthias Middell, Steffi Marung (Eds.), Spatial Formats under the Global Condition (pp. 48–77). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643008-003
We will discuss History at the Limit of World History (2002) by Ranajit Guha. The book consists of a series of lectures delivered at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University in October–November 2000. Ranajit Guha (born Siddhakati, Backergunje, 23 May 1923) is a historian of the Indian Subcontinent who has been vastly influential in the Subaltern …
Toyin Falola At our next meeting we will discuss Toyin Falola's Writing and teaching national history in Africa in an era of global history. See this link for the paper.