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Human-Animal Interactions in the Eighteenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Human-Animal Interactions in the Eighteenth Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-13
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  • Publisher: BRILL

How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary creativity.

Artists' Things
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Artists' Things

  • Categories: Art

Histories of artists’ personal possessions shed new light on the lives of their owners. Artists are makers of things. Yet, it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not only the fabric of the eighteenth-century art world in France but also unfamiliar—and sometimes unexpected—insights into the individuals who populated it, including Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun. From the curious to the mundane, from the useful to the symbolic, these items have one thing i...

Eco-Sonic Media
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Eco-Sonic Media

The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound studies and turn up the audio in discussions of greening the media. By looking at early and neglected forms of sound technology, Jacob Smith seeks to create a revisionist, ecologically aware history of sound media. Delving into the history of pre-elec...

Becoming Urban: State and Migration in Contemporary China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Becoming Urban: State and Migration in Contemporary China

With China’s sky-rocketing economic growth since the late 1980’s, the mobility of its labor force has increased tremendously. In the early 21st century the number of internal migrants is approaching 300 million, corresponding to more than 20% of the country’s population. This development has become a cause for political concern, highlighting significant issues in the social relations between settled communities and new migrants. This book examines in depth how institutional arrangements, in particular, the Hukou (Household Registration) system, influence the integration of migrants at their destinations. Under this unique Chinese settlement system, migrants are defined by their Hukou l...

Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 163

Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales

This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an absolutist regime. The state imprisons such renegades not just out of a desire to protect the public but more importantly to protect the state itself. Hence, prison escape tales can be linked with a revolutionary tendency: when free, such former detainees equipped with a pen openly and justly challenge the status quo, hoping to inspire their readers to do the same. Escape tales have had a considerable impact on cultural identity, because they embody the interdependent relationship between literature and myth on the one hand and literature and history on the other.

WerkstattGeschichte
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 181

WerkstattGeschichte

WerkstattGeschichte ist eine Zeitschrift, in der über Geschichte und ihre Akteur*innen ebenso reflektiert wird wie über historisches Forschen und Schreiben. Sie bietet Platz, konventionelle Perspektiven zu durchbrechen und neue Formen der Darstellung zu erproben. Die Zeitschrift bleibt der Sozialgeschichte verbunden, legt aber deutlichen Wert darauf, die »große Geschichte« aus einer alltagsgeschichtlichen Perspektive zu befragen. Heft 89, herausgegeben von Hanno Balz, widmet sich der Macht der Farben in rassistischen und vergeschlechtlichten Diskursen. Die Beiträger*innen analysieren, wie bestimmte Farben im Zusammenspiel ihrer Materialität und Symbolik historisch wahrgenommen und genutzt wurden, um Bedeutung zu generieren, soziale Beziehungen zu prägen oder Differenz zu markieren.

The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 658

The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By focusing on daily practice, interaction and social relations, it shows continuities and social change in European history from an interior perspective. The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe contains a variety of approaches from different regions that each pose a challenge to commonplace views such as the emergence of confessional cultures, of private life, and of separate spheres of men and women. By analyzing a plethora of manifold sources including diaries, court records, paintings and domestic advice literature, this volume provi...

Natur
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 184

Natur

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-10-09
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  • Publisher: V&R Unipress

Für die Kritik der modernen Geschlechterordnung war und ist die Kritik an Naturbezügen zentral – zugespitzt im Argument, das vermeintlich Natürliche sei ganz und gar kulturell und die Geschlechterordnung (ja, die Geschlechtlichkeit selbst) infolgedessen vollständig sozial konstruiert. Aus dieser Perspektive steht jedes Argumentieren mit Natur grundsätzlich unter Essentialismusverdacht. In der historischen Arbeit entpuppt sich diese Kritik zunehmend als vorschnelle Begrenzung – wenn nämlich nicht auch danach gefragt werden kann, worum es Akteur*innen eigentlich geht, wenn sie von "Natur" reden, oder wenn ein Naturbegriff absolut gesetzt wird, der selbst historisch ist. Im vorliegend...

The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850

"A history of the English kitchen as a specialised domestic space, exploring the practices, behaviours and material culture associated with it"--

Tierische Sozialarbeit
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 450

Tierische Sozialarbeit

Tiergestützte Praxisansätze stoßen in der Sozialen Arbeit und Pädagogik auf großes Interesse. Tiere werden zur Herstellung eines therapeutischen Milieus und in diagnostischen und heilenden Prozessen eingesetzt. Oftmals erscheinen sie als die besseren Helfer. Wenig entwickelt ist eine kritisch-wissenschaftliche Distanz und das Wissen zu den vielschichtigen, auch problematischen Facetten der Mensch-Tier-Beziehung. Das interdisziplinär angelegte Buch mit Texten aus der Sozialen Arbeit, Sozialgeschichte, Kulturanthropologie, Soziologie, Psychologie und Heilpädagogik liefert einen wichtigen Beitrag, um die Mensch-Tier-Beziehung als paradoxes lebensweltliches Alltagsphänomen und pädagogisches Feld für Disziplin und Profession der Sozialen Arbeit und Pädagogik in den fachlich-reflexiven Fokus zu rücken.