Global Lives Flashcards
“The spatial turn” discribes a shift towards…
where spatiality is seen as…
and space as…
a new sensitivity for spatiality
where spatiality is seen as a perspective
and space as a social and historical construction
The construction of space is part of…
part of the production and reproduction of power asymmetries at the intersection of class, gender, ethnicity….
Contact zones go beyond…
and are open to…
try to…
Contact zones go beyond **the static idea of “the local” **
…
and are open to connectivity
…
and try to unravel “connected similarities”
Contact zones can be…
cities, regions, places (Plaza), specific sites (ships, hospitals, bazaar…)
Global lives and Global objects includes the approach of…
following the different traces that exist around this object/Individual
Following a Global live does not only include…the individual, but…into the… where they lived –> entry point into….
following the individual but entering in depth into the places where they lived –> entry point into a broader social process that they were part of
An advantage of the global lives approach for the research is…
that it is a very clear and specific entry point, that provides an easy way to limit the research
When studying a global life it is about understanding…
- everything that was important to them
- agents, culture, institutions…, which were **experienced by the individual **
- understanding through the eyes of the real historical agent
The idea of the global lives approach is…
to look at someone’s life, even if this person´s life was completely exceptional **to understand the spheres **that they moved through within their lives
Global subaltern lives goes beyond…
the traditional idea of the subaltern person as “immobile”
Most archives…the subaltern lives, as did….
Most archives SILENCE the subaltern lives, as did TRADITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
the new, global history perspective on mobility of subaltern lives includes…
- Forced and voluntary “im/mobilization”
- Regimes of mobility and “repertoires of mobility” (top-down - control of mobility)
Global life of things centers on…
analysing…
one commodity
analysing the connections and disconnections (commodity chains)
The idea of this approach (following the object) is, that by…you understand the…and how it is…,which helps to also understand…
by following the trajectories of these objects you understand the different places and how it is perceived differently there
- which helps to also understand things intersecting/being in relation to the research object
Theory of Commodity chains sees commodities
Commodities as products of work and production
