Full Description
Volume 1: Theories, Methods and Ideas explores the mobility of ideas through time and space and how interdisciplinary theories and methodological approaches used in mobilities studies can be profitably utilised within the humanities and social sciences. 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.
Like its sister volume, this volume is 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 book mirrors the Theories and Methods, and Ideas thematic research clusters of the Centre. Afterwords from leading scholars from other institutions synthesise and reflect upon the findings of each section.
This volume, together with Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts, 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
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
