Full Description
This two-volume collection significantly advances the study of mobilities, understood as the movement of ideas, objects, people and texts in past and present societies as well as in different geographical contexts. Through a series of short chapters, mobility is employed as an elastic, inclusive and multifaceted concept across various disciplines to shed light on a geographically and chronologically broad range of issues and case studies. In doing so, the concept of mobility is positioned as a powerful catalyst for historical change and as a fruitful approach to research in the humanities and social sciences.
Both volumes are edited and written by members of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility and the Humanities (MoHu) at the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and The Ancient World (DiSSGeA) of the University of Padua, Italy. The structure of the books mirrors the thematic research clusters of the Centre: Theories and Methods, Ideas, Objects, People and Texts. Afterwords from leading scholars from other institutions synthesise and reflect upon the findings of each section.
This innovative two-volume set makes a compelling case for the use of mobility studies as a research framework in the humanities and social sciences. As such, it will be of interest to students and researchers in various disciplines.
Contents
Volume 1: Theories, Methods, and Ideas Introduction to Volume 1: Theories, Methods, and Ideas Section 1: Theories and Methods 1. "Moving Textuality" in Early Modern Europe 2. The Challenge of Mobility for Commodity Chains: Time, Actors, and Value from an Historical Perspective 3. Mobilizing Pictures: The History of Science through the Lens of Mobility 4. Gendered Mobilities: Spaces, Images and Power across the Mediterranean (16th-20th centuries) 5. Handling Distances as a Key Factor in Social Power Dynamics 6. Map-mobilities: Expanding the Field 7. Narrative Mobilities: Moving Texts from Representation to Practice Afterword Section 2: Ideas 8. Mobility: The Word and the Thing 9., Tyrannical Mobility, Dictatorial Mobility 10. The Anglo-Venetian Moment: Political and Legal Representations between the Republic of Venice and England in the Early-Modern Age 11. Mechanics, Scholars and Objects: The Spread of Aristotle's Philosophy and Its Exponents in Early Modern Europe 12.Synchronicity and Imitation of Practices of Order and Political Violence before and after WWI Afterword Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts Introduction to Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts Section 1: Objects 1. Textiles in Imperial Landscapes: Tracing the Mobility of Textile Products and Craftspeople in First-Millennium BCE Assyria 2. Renaissance female luxury garments on the move: when brides' silks brocades ended up dressing ecclesiastics (Florence, 14th-15th centuries) 3. Political Objects in Motion across 19th-century Europe 4. The Repatriation and Uneven Biomobilities of Human Remains 5. Beyond the Immobility of "Museum Pieces": Variations on Mobility in the Collections of a Museum of Geography Afterword Section 2: People 6. Amoveatur ut promoveatur: the Careers of Military Judges in Italy and the Colonies 7. Re-enacting Community Belonging through Emotions and Memories: German Expellees' and Italian Repatriates' Circular Letters 8. Entrepreneurial Mobility between Italy and South America: The Case of Argentina 9. Slow mobility: Processes of Agency among Refugees Eating and Living at the Tiburtina Station in Rome 10. Exploring Tourism 'Slow' Mobilities Afterword Section 3: Texts 11. Jewish Law and Greek Science: Translation- and Mobility-Studies in light of the Ancient Greek Translation of the Old Testament 12. Movable Laws? The "extra edictum" Reproduction and Circulation of the Leges Langobardorum in Early Medieval Italy 13. A Tool for the Mobility of Texts, Persons, and Ideas: The Vocabulista in Arabico 14. The Mobility of Greek Manuscripts between East and West: The Biblioteca Marciana in Venice as a Case Study 15. Communication and Religious Mobility: A European Intelligence Network, 1560-1590 Afterword
