Methods of Comparison and Connection

Question 1

What is the key idea of connected history?
Scholars shouldn´t….
They should rather study…
and address both…

Answer 1

Scholars shouldn´t compare different regions as if they were separate from one another

….They should rather study the connected, yet distinct nature of the region and adress both, the **problem of translation **that this poses and the strategies created by the historical actors to overcome them –> cross-cultural connection

Question 2

What warns the “Histoire Croisée” approach for when conducting comparison?

Answer 2

That we need to pay attention to the way we choose the scale and object of comparison and reflect our own positionality as external observers

Question 3

What is the key thought of hisoire croisée?

Answer 3

Everything is connected

Question 4

Around which units is the comparison a la “Histoire Croisée” structured

Answer 4

The spatial unit

Question 5

What is the comparative approach of a reciprocal comparison?

Answer 5

Both sides are viewed as deviations when seen through the expectations of the other, rather then leaving one as always the norm

Question 6

What does the reciprocal comparison approach lead to? (+ and -)

Answer 6

+
- avoids eurocentrism
- allows for interpretations by asking common questions in distinct contexts
-
-Risk of flattening internal differences **
- Scholars are usually less interested in Connections and risk to picture the regions they compare as completely isolated**

Question 7

What units does the incorporating comparison approach compare?

Answer 7

Comparisons of connected SPATIAL units that change across TIME

Question 8

What does connected history think about historical processes and what is an example of a historical phenomenon studied by connected history?

Answer 8

Historical processes emerge from **multi-sited **(or trans-local) practices (Translocality focuses on the various hist. actors within the regions that are compared)

Example: Oppenheimer: working from different spaces on the same practices
- Industrialization - multi-sited connected process of development

Question 9

Inter-Imperial Micro-regions (Mulich) brings together….

Answer 9

comparison and connection

Question 10

Inter-Imperial Micro-regions (Mulich) researches 3 levels of cross-polity interaction in regions (with a density of networks and interactions with multiple competing polities.

Answer 10

1. inter-imperial politics (interactions between formal and informal actors that influence the region in some ways)
2. inter-colonial relations (take place at the level of local political and legal authority)
3. trans-imperial-networks