Methods Flashcards
(33 cards)
Finish the quote: ‘Global history as the quest for _________ in order to analyse __________ and _________ of historical processes
Global history as the quest for moving beyond sectoral boundaries in order to analyse the connectedness and specify of historical processes.
Chakrabaty (2000) ‘Provincialising Europe….’ Name two main points.
- Europe as ‘engine’ and ‘model’ of history - cradle of modern historiography
- The ‘rest’ a history of ‘not yet’ a stagist theory of history p.9
What is methodological nationalism, as defined by wimmer + schiller (2002) ?
The assumption that the national state/society is the natural social and political form of the modern world.
What are the three approaches to the nation, and what do they do?
- IGNORANCE - ignoring the national modernity frame
- NATURALISATION - taking national discourses for granted
- TERRITORIAL LIMITATION - boundaries of the nations ‘container model’
They create a self reinforcing epistemological structure
Name Conrad’s 3 varieties of global history (2016)
- worldwide history (what happens globally)
- focus on exchange and connections
- history based on the concept of global integration
Name Conrad’s 8 features of global history (2016)
- Not only macro perspectives
- Alternative notions of space
- Inherently relational
- “spatial turn”
- Synchronicity of events
- Self-reflexivity
- Explicit positionality
- Beyond exclusive focus on exchange and connections
What is a periodisation?
dividing the past into meaningful and distinct periods - cultural, political, economical
Give an example of a periodisation - and the year that is perceived as the ‘beginning’ of globalisation
modes of production - slavery / feudalism / capitalism
1492 - beginning of globalisation, capitalism, ‘early’ modern
Finish the quote:
Comparisons and Connections define _______ units but also ______________ and the __________ of the spatial units across time
Comparisons and connections define spatial/temporal/categories + units but also acknowledge connections and the transformation of the spatial units across time
What is a reciprocal comparison
asking questions emerging from both or multiple temporal and spatial contexts
Historie croisse - what is it?
Werner and Zimmerman (2000) - comparison of connected spatial units and reflexivity - thinking about the ways in which spatial/temporal units are constructed
Incorporating comparisons - what is it?
Cornstock (2012) - comparisons of connected spatial/temporal units that change across TIME
Connected histories - what is it?
Subrahmanyan (1997) - historical processes emerging from multi-sided / trans-local practices - oppenheimer example - different localities working towards same goal - processes emerging from multi-sited/trans-local practics
Politics of comparison - what is it?
comparisons made by actors themselves….comparison as a field of conflict/negotiation among actors - different perceptions/interests/goals
Comparing processes - what is it?
asking the same questions to distinct temporal/spatial contexts - possibilities, ranges, emic (insider) and etic (outsider) categories
What is the ‘spatial turn?’
Give 2 main points.
a sensitivity for spatiality… space as a perspective, a social and historical construction
local is no longer local = is produced by connections
Give 2 examples of a contact zone.
Regions - crossroads
Sites = ships / prisons / mental hospitals…etc
Global lives… what sort of method is it?
following the traces of one individual across their lives….good combination with the politics of comparison
What is prosopographies?
Following the traces of a group of people
What is the subaltern perspective?
What role do archives have to play in this?
Following untraditional actors that may be immobile/underrepresented - eg slaves, coerced labour, representation from below.
Most archives silence subaltern lives. ask yourself - who isn’t represented here?
What role do ‘commodity chains’ play? (Caracausi 2018)
Commodity chains as the network of objects/producers/materials/hubs
What is the ‘archival turn’
archive as ‘source’ and archive as ‘subject’ - reading along and against the grain
Name three challenges of working with archive’s
- gathering the data from across different places
- materiality and condition
- languages + connecting
Finish the quote… narrating the global is the ______ of the operations of construction of the ____________ to analyse _____________ and enhance ______________
Narrating the global is the visibility of the operations of construction of the historical narrative to analyse historiographical texts and enhance self reflexivity
