The Cultural Turn in Disaster Research: Understanding Resilience and Vulnerability Through the Lens of Culture

2017 ◽  
pp. 109-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary R. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Research ◽  
Cultural Turn

Katrina spurs disaster research

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Winerman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Research

The class-distress relation revisited: Evidence from disaster research

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martie P. Thompson ◽  
Fran H. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Research

Beyond the Cultural Turn

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Biernacki ◽  
Caroline Bynum ◽  
Steven Feierman ◽  
Karen Halttunen ◽  
Margaret C. Jacob ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Turn

Kontinuität und Traditionsbrüche in der Pädagogik

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-279
Author(s):  
Alex Aßmann
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Educational Science ◽  
Cultural Turn

Abstract Continuity and Breaks in Tradition in Pedagogy. The Cultural Turnaround of Klaus Mollenhauer, the Self-Historicization of Educational Science and the Posthistoire This essay examines the question of whether Klaus Mollenhauer’s cultural turn should be interpreted as a development of Geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik. Therefore, historical processing of experience, such as this that occurred within the paradigm, should be reflected against the background of historical upheavals that occurred on a larger scale.

Materialism and Legal Historiography, from Bachelard to Benjamin

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Christopher Tomlins
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Gaston Bachelard ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
The World ◽  
Prime Elements ◽  
Cultural Turn

As the linguistic/cultural turn of the last fifty years has begun to ebb, sociolegal and legal-humanist scholarship has seen an accelerating return to materiality. This chapter asks what relationship may be forthcoming between the “new materialisms” and “vibrant matter” of recent years, and the older materialisms—both historical and literary, both Marxist and non-Marxist—that held sway prior to post-structuralism. What impact might such a relationship have on the forms, notably “spatial justice,” that materiality is assuming in contemporary legal studies? To attempt answers, the chapter turns to two figures from more than half a century ago: Gaston Bachelard—once famous, now mostly forgotten; and Walter Benjamin—once largely forgotten, now famous. A prolific and much-admired writer between 1930 and 1960, Bachelard pursued two trajectories of inquiry: a dialectical and materialist and historical (but non-Marxist) philosophy of science; and a poetics of the material imagination based on inquiry into the literary reception and representation of the prime elements—earth, water, fire, and air. Between the late 1920s and 1940, meanwhile, Benjamin developed an idiosyncratic but potent form of historical materialism dedicated to “arousing [the world] from its dream of itself.” The chapter argues that by mobilizing Bachelard and Benjamin for scholarship at the intersection of law and the humanities, old and new materialisms can be brought into a satisfying conjunction that simultaneously offers a poetics for spatial justice and lays a foundation for a materialist legal historiography for the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Cultural History, Ritual and Performance: George L. Mosse in Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200942094003
Author(s):  
Peter Burke
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Cultural Turn

George L. Mosse took a ‘cultural turn’ in the latter part of his career, but still early enough to make a pioneering contribution to the study of political culture and in particular what he called political ‘liturgy’, including marches, processions, and practices of commemoration. He adapted to the study of nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the approach to the history of ritual developed by historians of medieval and early modern Europe, among them his friend Ernst Kantorowicz. More recently, the concept of ritual, whether religious or secular, has been criticized by some cultural historians on the grounds that it implies a fixed ‘script’ in situations that were actually marked by fluidity and improvisation. In this respect cultural historians have been part of a wider trend that includes sociologists and anthropologists as well as theatre scholars and has been institutionalized as Performance Studies. Some recent studies of contemporary nationalism in Tanzania, Venezuela and elsewhere have adopted this perspective, emphasizing that the same performance may have different meanings for different sections of the audience. It is only to be regretted that Mosse did not live long enough to respond to these studies and that their authors seem unaware of his work.

Zur Konjunktur des Zählens – oder wie man Quantifizierung quantifiziert. Eine empirische Analyse der Anwendung quantitativer Methoden in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft

2020 ◽  
Vol 310 (3) ◽  
pp. 580-621
Author(s):  
Michael Buchner ◽  
Tobias A. Jopp ◽  
Mark Spoerer ◽  
Lino Wehrheim
Keyword(s):  
Empirische Analyse ◽  
Statistische Methoden ◽  
Cultural Turn

ZusammenfassungHistoriker können heute auf einen gut gefüllten methodischen Werkzeugkasten zurückgreifen. Seit der Etablierung der Sozialgeschichte als „Historische Sozialwissenschaft“ in den 1970er Jahren gehören dazu neben qualitativ-hermeneutischen Ansätzen grundsätzlich auch quantitativ-statistische Methoden. Viele Quellen lassen einen quantitativen Analyseansatz zumindest zu; andere (z. B. Massendaten) sind ohne die Anwendung entsprechender Methoden gar nicht gewinnbringend auswertbar. Doch wie stark ist die Anwendung quantitativer Methoden in der deutschsprachigen Geschichtswissenschaft eigentlich verbreitet (gewesen)? Während der Einsatz statistischer Verfahren seit den Tagen der „Bielefelder Schule“ durch immer leistungsfähigere und zugleich anwenderfreundlichere Software prinzipiell viel einfacher geworden ist, scheinen quantitative Ansätze in nur wenigen historischen Teildisziplinen verbreitet zu sein. Ein Grund könnte die Skepsis gegenüber quantitativen Methoden von Seiten der Vertreter der „Neuen Kulturgeschichte“ sein. Wissenschaftshistorisch-empirisch ist dieser Aspekt jedoch kaum erforscht. Unsere Studie möchte diese Forschungslücke ein Stück weit schließen. Dazu haben wir ein umfangreiches Zeitschriftenkorpus (u. a. die HZ beinhaltend) erhoben, das es uns erlaubt, das Ausmaß quantitativen Arbeitens in der deutschsprachigen Historiographie für den Zeitraum 1951­–2016 näher zu bestimmen. Wir argumentieren sowohl quantitativ als auch qualitativ und kombinieren dazu einen einfachen „Abzähl-Ansatz“ (Zählung der Tabellen und Grafiken in allen erhobenen Zeitschriften) mit einem komplexeren lexikografischen Ansatz. Unsere Ergebnisse stützen insgesamt die These, dass der cultural turn den aufkommenden Trend zu mehr Quantifizierung in Teilen der Geschichtswissenschaft wieder umkehrte. Die Bestimmung der „Konjunktur der Quantifizierung“ birgt aber auch manche Überraschung.

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