1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794657703321

Autore

Burton Howard

Titolo

Conversations about History, Volume 1

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : Open Agenda Publishing, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-77170-184-6

1-77170-102-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages)

Collana

Ideas Roadshow Collections ; ; v.17

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

History

Pseudoscience

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Textual Note -- Preface -- Enlightened Entrepreneurialism -- A conversation with Margaret Jacob -- Introduction -- I. Historical Origins -- II. Decrypting Newton -- III. Beyond the Numbers -- IV. Apprenticeship -- V. Religion and Geography -- VI. Theory vs. Practice -- VII. Lessons Learned? -- VIII. History Today -- IX. Past and Future -- X. Righting Wrongs, Slowly -- Continuing the Conversation -- Science and Pseudoscience -- A conversation with Michael Gordin -- Introduction -- I. A Counterculture Hero -- II. An Ideal Case -- III. The Lysenko Lesson -- IV. A Freudian Cosmology -- V. Enter Einstein -- VI. Responses and Reactions -- VII. Digging In -- VIII. Science vs. Pseudoscience -- IX. Fringe Benefits -- X. Learning From History -- XI. Anthropic Digression -- XII. Better Science? -- Continuing the Conversation -- The Consolations of History -- A conversation with Teofilo Ruiz -- Introduction -- I. The Terror of History -- II. Becoming a Historian -- III. Historical Ruminations -- IV. Progress? -- V. Connecting -- VI. Looking Ahead -- Continuing the Conversation -- Herculaneum Uncovered -- A conversation with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill -- Introduction -- I. What We Know -- II. Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie -- III. Exploring Roman Society -- IV. Herculaneum vs. Pompeii -- V. The Future of the Past -- Continuing the Conversation -- Embracing Complexity -- A conversation with David Cannadine -- Introduction --



I. Finding One's Historical Feet -- II. The Art of Biography -- III. The Undivided Past -- IV. Transcending Parochialism -- V. Categorical Examinations -- VI. Historical Broadening -- VII. What to Do, Part I -- VIII. What to Do, Part II -- Continuing the Conversation.

Sommario/riassunto

Conversations About History, Volume 1, is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading historians with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the different ideas and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The following experts have participated in this Collection: 1. David Cannadine, Professor of History, Princeton University;2. Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University;3. Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA;4. Teofilo Ruiz, Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA;5. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Director of Research and Honorary Professor of Roman Studies in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge.Howard Burton is the creator and host of Ideas Roadshow and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910758472903321

Autore

Clavé-Mercier Valentin

Titolo

Decolonising Political Concepts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2023

Milton : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2023

©2024

ISBN

9781000999464

1000999467

9781000999457

1000999459

9781003293460

1003293468

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 pages)

Collana

Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms Series.

Classificazione

SCI030000SOC015000

Altri autori (Persone)

WuthMarie

Disciplina

325/.3

Soggetti

Decolonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Cover Page -- Half Title page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface: We Shall Dance Better -- References -- At the Crossroads of Coloniality, Power, and Knowledge: It Is Time to Decolonise Political Concepts -- Decolonial Theory, Political Concepts, and the Ideological West -- Searching for a More Habitable Place: Decolonising Political Concepts -- Concepts beyond Borders -- Moving Sideways, Looking Forward -- Notes -- References -- Part I Decolonial Horizons: Revealing the Coloniality of Knowledge and Power 1 Historicising History: A Critique Enabling View of History -- Models of Historiography -- The Empirical Model -- The Constructivist Model -- The Postmodern Historiographic Model and the Charge of Relativism -- Social Conditions and Contingency -- Social Conditions as Conditions of Possibility of Historical Knowledge -- Objectivity in Historical Explanation and General Prescription -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Recalcitrance of White Ignorance -- Introduction -- White Ignorance and the Causal Role of Race -- Conception and



Perception -- Memory and Testimony A Recalcitrant Ignorance -- Motivational Group Interest -- Affective Aspects of White Ignorance -- Affective Numbness -- White Ignorance as an Embodied Unconscious Habit -- Beyond Beliefs -- Recalcitrant Habits and White Narcissism -- The Emotions of Oppressors as Seen by the Oppressed -- Projective Mechanisms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Idealised Subject of Freedom and the Refugee -- Introduction -- Freedom and National Citizenship -- The Anomaly of the Paradigm -- Humanitarian Approach -- The Arendtian Critique -- Freedom and (Non)-subjectivity -- Refugees' (Non)-subjectivity Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Feeling Coloniality: Bodies, Sexuality, and Agency -- 4 Politics without a Proper Locus: Political Agency between Action and Practice -- Introduction: Smoke Onstage -- Arendt Experiences Loss -- Politics and Action as an Answer to Loss -- Arendt's Misrecognition -- What Is Practice? -- How Can Action and Practice Still Relate to One Another? -- The Domain of the Senses -- Notes -- References -- 5 Enfleshed Political Violences: Rethinking Sexual Violence from a Decolonial Critique to the Political Construction of the Body as Flesh Coloniality of Gender and the Mark of the Human -- The Depoliticisation of the Private -- Theorising the Flesh -- (In)Defensible: Sexual Violence and the Imperial Economy of Violence -- Conclusion: Violence, Sex, and Politics in the Paradigm of the Flesh -- References -- Part III Subverting Coloniality: Decolonising the Language of Resistance -- 6 The Politics of Language in Anti-authoritarian Political Practice: The Southern Mediterranean Case -- Introduction -- Translation as a Political Practice of Anarchism -- Anarchist Knowledge Production in a Postcolonial Context.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions.