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Bearing Witness as a Boundary Case: Survivor Testimony, Legal Testimony and Historical Testimony
By examining the metamorphoses of the testimony of survivor-witnesses in court and in the writing of history, Weigel replaces so-called aporias (the...
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‘Archaeological Objects’: Ireland, 1860–2014; Northern Ireland, 1921–97
In the early years of the establishment of Northern Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and of the Irish Free State under the...
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A Boundary Between Two Worlds? Community Perceptions of Former Asylums in Lancashire, England
Mental asylums are often depicted as dark, feared places of torment and scandal. Yet slowly the negative perceptions surrounding them have receded....
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African Women in African Arts: Activists, Cultural Brokers, and Boundary Breakers
New African Diaspora Women Artists (NADWA), are artists of African origin now located in other parts of the world notably Euro-American spaces. They...
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Evolution of Social-Ecological Research in the LTER Network and the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
The addition of two urban sites, based in Baltimore, Maryland, and Phoenix, Arizona, to the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program in 1997,...
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Almost Antiquaries
To establish history as a unique discipline, historians strove to distance themselves from antiquarianism. This chapter reconsiders the argument...
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“We Witches.” Knowledge Wars, Experience and Spirituality in the Women’s Movement During the 1970s
During the 1970s, feminist activists reappropriated the figure of the witch in various ways as a symbol of alterity, political radicalism, feminist...
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Werewolves as Social Others: Contemporary Oral Narratives in Rural Bosnia and Herzegovina
This chapter focuses on the narratives about werewolves which I recorded during my fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2016–2017 among all three...
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Listening to East Berlin: Can a Soundscape Be Socialist?
Spaces are shaped not solely by their physical compositions but also by the sonic reverberations that inhabit them. These auditory elements encompass...
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The creation of inclusive governance infrastructures through participatory agenda-setting
Though a stronger orientation of research and innovation with a focus on societal needs, demands, and preferences has recently become the main...
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Charged Matter
In the premodern worldview, matter was not necessarily thought a fixed, lifeless element. Taking this view as a starting point, this chapter deals...
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Disappearance of Four Gods and New Perceptions Related to Apotropaic Practices in Tombs
This chapter tackles the problems involved with the disappearance of the Four Gods. It focuses on investigating the declining pattern in the spatial...
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The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-Century Fisheries Science
This article looks at how fisheries biologists of the early twentieth century conceptualized and measured overfishing and attempted to make it a...
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What’s the matter with time?
The relationship between time and matter is intricately woven. Fundamental versions of time have evolved through cavernous reflection into the nature...
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Design Thinking Under the Ming Dynasty
The years of the Ming dynasty involved a number of transitions and apparent inconsistencies. Initial autocratic Neo-Confucian ideologies supporting...
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Dark Heritage Research Methods: A Case Study from Contemporary Russia
This chapter aims to describe and explain methods that can be used in the course of conducting critical heritage studies research. It provides both a...
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Eyes, Sounds, Voices: Cinematic Representations of the Lampedusa Borderscape
“Eyes, Sounds, Voices: Cinematic Representations of the Lampedusa Borderscape” continues the conversation on Europe’s southern border through the...
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Concluding Discussion: An Enchanted World
This concluding chapter presents a synthesis of the book. It emphasises, among other things, that the strongest driving forces in the trials were the...
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From 1816 to the End of the Turco-Persian War (1816–1825)
Although the Treaty of Gulistan was signed in 1813, it was only in 1817 that Lieutenant-General Alexei Petrovich Ermolov, commander-in-chief of...
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Sexology and Sciences of Sex as an Observatory for Political Histories of Science
This volume began by exploring various ways of approaching ‘what sexology is’ and writing its history. In the Introduction, Alain Giami distinguished...