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.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Volume 1: Theories, Methods and Ideas
Lucio Biasiori, Federico Mazzini and Chiara Rabbiosi
Section 1: Theories and Methods
1. "Moving Textuality" in Early Modern Europe
Paola Molino
2. The Challenge of Mobility for Commodity Chains: Time, Actors, and Value from an Historical Perspective
Marco Bertilorenzi, Andrea Caracausi, Carlo Fumian and Benoît Maréchaux
3. Mobilizing Pictures: The History of Science through the Lens of Mobility
Elena Canadelli
4. Gendered Mobilities: Spaces, Images, and Power across the Mediterranean (16th-20th centuries)
Teresa Bernardi and Silvia Bruzzi
5. Handling Distances as a Key Factor in Social Power Dynamics
Marina Bertoncin and Andrea Pase
6. Map-mobilities: Expanding the Field
Laura Lo Presti and Tania Rossetto
7. Narrative Mobilities: Moving Texts from Representation to Practice
Giada Peterle
Afterword
Peter Merriman
Section 2: Ideas
8. Mobility: The Word and the Thing
Lucio Biasiori
9., Tyrannical Mobility, Dictatorial Mobility
Francesca Cavaggioni, Luca Fezzi and Flavio Raviola
10. The Anglo-Venetian Moment: Political and Legal Representations between the Republic of Venice and England in the Early Modern Age
Michele Basso, Mario Piccinini and Alfredo Viggiano
11. Mechanics, Scholars and Objects: The Spread of Aristotle’s Philosophy and Its Exponents in Early Modern Europe
Ferdinando Fava and Andrea Savio
12. Synchronic Development or Diffusion? The Temporal Mobility of Violent Practices Before and After WWI
Giulia Albanese and Matteo Millan
Afterword
Aristotle Kallis



