scholarly journals History Looks Forward: Interdisciplinarity and Critical Emotion Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
Rob Boddice
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Emotion Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
Broad Framework ◽  
Power And Authority

The history of emotions has become a thriving focus within the discipline of history, but it has in the process gained a critical purchase that makes it relevant for other disciplines concerned with emotion research. The history of emotions is entangled with the history of the body and brain, and with cultural and political history. It is interested in the how and why of emotion change; with the questions of power and authority behind cultural scripts of expression, conceptual usages, and emotional practices. This work has reached a level of maturity and sophistication in its theoretical and methodological orientation, and in its sheer quantity of empirical research, that it contributes to emotion knowledge within the broad framework of emotion research.

Breathing in India, c. 1890

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 283-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
NILE GREEN
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis essay examines a series of ‘Hindustani’ meditation manuals from the high colonial period against a sample of etiquette and medicinal works from the same era. In doing so, the essay has two principal aims, one specific to the Indian past and one pertaining to more general historical enquiry. The first aim is to subvert a longstanding trend in the ‘history’ of religions which has understood meditational practices through a paradigm of the mystical and transcendent. In its place, the essay examines such practices—and in particular their written, and printed, formulation—within the ideological and technological contexts in which they were written. In short, meditation is historicised, and its ‘Hindu’ and ‘Muslim’ expressions, compared in the process. The second aim is more ambitious: to test the limits of historical knowledge by asking whether it is possible to recount a history of breathing. In reassembling a political economy of respiration from a range of colonial writings, the essay thus hopes to form a listening device for the intimate rhythms of corporeal history. In doing so, it may suggest ways to recount a connected and necessarily political history of the body, the spirit and the world.

The World we Have Lost

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Boldizzoni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Economic Cycles ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Money Price

This chapter covers macroeconomic issues, including economic cycles, money, price levels, the nature of growth, and the historical roots of underdevelopment. It shows how the micro level is logically linked to the macro level. It also argues that the crisis of the French-style economic history in the past twenty years is due more to French historians transferring their interest to cultural history. However, abandoning quantitative history in favor of the histoire des mentalités does not imply there is no room for economic history alongside the new political history and other aspects such as the history of the body and the history of death that were once considered eccentric.

scholarly journals Teaching and learning nature of scientific knowledge: Is it Déjà vu all over again?

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman G. Lederman ◽  
Judith S. Lederman
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Curriculum And Instruction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Déjà Vu ◽  
Teaching Learning

AbstractThis review traces the history of research on the teaching and learning of nature of scientific knowledge (NOSK), and its implications for curriculum and instruction. Initially, the complex rubric of NOSK is clearly conceptualized, while recognizing that there is no singularly accepted definition. As part of this conceptualization NOSK is distinguished from the body of scientific knowledge and science practices/inquiry, the latter of which is often conflated with NOSK. The empirical research on NOSK related to teaching, learning, and assessment is briefly reviewed, followed by a discussion of the challenges that teachers face and a delineation of research foci that can help alleviate teachers’ challenges. Finally, a variety of important questions yet to be answered are delineated and explained.

Willemijn Ruberg, History of the Body

Somatechnics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-455
Author(s):  
Danielle Kinsey
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
History Of

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Laura Kounine
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The Body ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
Current State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Witch Hunts

This Introduction sets out the intentions of this book: to use the rich witch-trial records from the early modern duchy of Württemberg in south-western Germany to explore the central themes of emotions, gender, and selfhood. It provides an overview of the key historiographical debates on witchcraft persecutions in the early modern period, and suggests new questions that need to be asked. It also provides a methodological and theoretical framework in which to address these questions, and provides an overview of the current state of the field of the history of emotions, and, by drawing on psychological approaches to listening to self-narratives, it suggests ways in which historical studies of emotions can be pushed further by incorporating the body and subjective states. It also sets out the legal, political, and religious framework of the Lutheran duchy of Württemberg, in order to put the witch-hunts in this region into context.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
William G. Pooley
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
Key Points ◽  
History Of ◽  
Star Performers ◽  
Cultural Agency ◽  
Local Cultures

The conclusion draws together ideas from the book, suggesting a few key points. First, it draws attention to the cultural agency of ‘exemplars’, or what folklorists have sometimes called ‘star performers’. Singers and storytellers like Henri Vidal, Marie Bouzats, or Catherine Gentes are not just important because they were typical, but because they played leading roles in local cultures. The conclusion argues that such exemplars allow historians to perceive changing cultures of the body which cannot be reduced to the simple advent of a ‘modern’ body. The example of the moorlands of Gascony suggests broader patterns in the history of the body during the period of modernization.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
William G. Pooley
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Top Down ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
Performance Variation ◽  
History Of

This chapter situates the book as an intervention in discussions of the history of the body, suggesting that the experiences of the working population have often been absent from discussions of changing bodily cultures, which have instead tended to focus on elite discourses. The chapter suggests that the moorlands of Gascony in south-western France make a particularly powerful example, because of the scale and speed of top-down reforms of the landscape following a national law passed in 1857, which encouraged the forestation of the moorlands. The region also boasts one of the most impressive ethnographic archives, thanks to the work of the folklorist Félix Arnaudin (1844–1921). The chapter finishes with an outline of key methodologies drawn from folklore studies, including the study of performance, variation, and traceability.

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