scholarly journals Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-598
Author(s):  
Matthias van Rossum
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Body ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Contemporary Development

AbstractThis article argues that we need to move beyond the “Atlantic” and “formal” bias in our understanding of the history of slavery. It explores ways forward toward developing a better understanding of the long-term global transformations of slavery. Firstly, it claims we should revisit the historical and contemporary development of slavery by adopting a wider scope that accounts for the adaptable and persistent character of different forms of slavery. Secondly, it stresses the importance of substantially expanding the body of empirical observations on trajectories of slavery regimes, especially outside the Atlantic, and most notable in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago worlds, where different slavery regimes existed and developed in interaction. Thirdly, it proposes an integrated analytical framework that will overcome the current fragmentation of research perspectives and allow for a more comparative analysis of the trajectories of slavery regimes in their highly diverse formal and especially informal manifestations. Fourth, the article shows how an integrated framework will enable a collaborative research agenda that focuses not only on comparisons, but also on connections and interactions. It calls for a closer integration of the histories of informal slavery regimes into the wider body of existing scholarship on slavery and its transformations in the Atlantic and other more intensely studied formal slavery regimes. In this way, we can renew and extend our understandings of slavery's long-term, global transformations.

On the Run: Runaway Slaves and Their Social Networks in Eighteenth-Century Cochin

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-87
Author(s):  
Alexander Geelen ◽  
Bram van den Hout ◽  
Merve Tosun ◽  
Mike de Windt ◽  
Matthias van Rossum
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Runaway Slaves ◽  
Plantation Slavery ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
And Control

Abstract Despite growing attention to the history of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago worlds, the debate on the nature or characteristics of slavery in these regions has been left largely unsettled. Whereas some scholars emphasize the existence of harsh forms of hereditary slavery similar to those found in the Americas, others argue that the nature of slavery in Asia was urban, status-based, and milder than in the Atlantic world. This article explores case studies of slaves escaping in and around the Dutch East India Company (VOC) city of Cochin. Studying court records that bring to light the strategies and social networks of enslaved runaways provides new insights into the characteristics of slavery and the conditions of slaves in and around VOC-Cochin. The findings indicate that the social and everyday conditions under which slaves lived were highly diverse and shaped by the direct relations between slave and master, influenced by elements of trust, skill, and control. Relations of slavery nevertheless remained engrained by the recurrence of physical punishments and verbal threats, despite sometimes relatively open situations. This reminds us that easy dichotomies of “benign,” “Asian,” “household,” or “urban” versus “European,” “Atlantic,” or “plantation” slavery obscure as much as they reveal.

scholarly journals Slave Trade and Slavery in Asia—New Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Titas Chakraborty ◽  
Matthias van Rossum
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Local Character ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract Recent years have witnessed an expanding body of scholarship indicating the importance of slave trade and slavery in different parts of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago worlds. This work has not only challenged the dominant focus of slavery scholarship on the Atlantic context but has also encouraged scholars to reassess wider perspectives on Asian and global social histories. This special issue brings together contributions that explore these new horizons. Together, they take up the issue of slavery and mobility in different parts of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago worlds from a comparative perspective, dealing not only with the existence and patterns of slave trade itself but also with its social and sociopolitical implications. These articles require us to rethink some of the dominant perspectives in a historiography that for a long time has emphasized the unique and local character of “Asian” slaveries, positing dichotomies between slavery in the Atlantic and elsewhere, as well as between Western and non-Western slaveries. The contributions to this special issue challenge several of these existing dichotomies and provide new contributions to the understanding of the role and importance of slavery from a global perspective, as well as to the history of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago worlds. This introduction reflects on this collective contribution and aims to provide an outline for a relevant research agenda.

Introduction

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Iordachi ◽  
Péter Apor
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Academic Exchange ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Historical Discourses ◽  
The Cold War

The downfall of the communist system and the end of the Cold War, the liberalization of historical discourses in Central and Eastern Europe, the opening up of new archival collections for scientific research, the intensification of academic exchange and interaction between local and foreign scholars, and the increasing globalization of the world have challenged scholars to experiment with new transnational approaches to the study of communist regimes, such as shared/entangled history, history of transfers, and histoire croisée. Against this background, the current thematic issue aims to evaluate the potential impact of transnational approaches on the field of communist studies, within the broader frameworks of European and world history. In this introduction, we provide a reappraisal of the history, legacy, and prospects of comparative communist studies, highlighting the potential heuristic advantages posed by the applications of new approaches to the “cross-history” of communist regimes. We argue that transnational research perspectives can fertilize communist studies, leading not only to novel insights but to the transformation of the field itself, by setting it on new foundations. By employing transnational perspectives, scholars are able to challenge the traditional understanding of communist regimes as quasi-isolated national entities, highlighting instead the long-term impact of cross-border linkages and transfers on sociopolitical developments within the Soviet camp. It is our conviction that the entangled history of communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe can function as a laboratory for experimenting with new transnational perspectives, leading to innovative interdisciplinary approaches in a joint effort of scholars from various disciplines and historiographical traditions.

scholarly journals Development of Diabetes Type 3 After SARS-COV-2 Pancreatic B Cell Injury

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. A373-A373
Author(s):  
Francisco Jose Zayas ◽  
Marianne Hernandez-Negron ◽  
Michelle Marie Mangual Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Blood Glucose ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Endocrine System ◽  
Diabetes Type ◽  
The Body ◽  
C Peptide ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Type 3

Abstract SARS-COV-2 has caused millions of deaths in less than one year, yet little is known about the long-term consequences survivors may suffer. The novel coronavirus uses the ACE2 receptor to infect human cells, allowing it to target organ systems with such receptors including the respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and endocrine system. The purpose of this case report is to describe the long-term implications COVID-19 may cause in the endocrine system. A 46-year-old woman was referred to our clinic due to abrupt uncontrolled blood glucose levels ranging from 200-550mg/dL after being infected with COVID-19 for approximately 10 weeks. She has a past medical history of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 which was diagnosed 3 years ago and was well controlled with diet. Present history reveals polyuria, polydipsia, tiredness and a decreased appetite. Laboratory values show HbA1C 12, negative islet cell antibodies/GAD antibodies, low C-peptide, high TSH, normal FT4 and positive anti-TPO antibodies/thyroglobulin antibodies. The sudden loss of blood glucose control along with low c peptide levels without evidence of autoimmunity support the diagnosis of Pancreatic Diabetes. SARS-COV-2 infection may cause Diabetes Type 3, rendering a patient dependent on insulin use for life. Covid-19 survivors, with or without a previous history of endocrinopathy, should be evaluated for possible long-term sequels of infection as the virus targets tissues throughout the body.

scholarly journals The natural history of musical rhythm: functional and mechanistic theories on the evolution of human rhythm cognition and the relevance of rhythmic animal behaviors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc ◽  
Tomas Persson ◽  
Elainie Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Systematic Observation ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Musical Rhythm ◽  
Evolutionary Study ◽  
Evolutionary Origins ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theoretical Proposal

There has recently been a growing interest to investigate rhythm cognition in nonhuman animals as a way of tracking the evolutionary origins of human musicality - i.e., the ability to perceive, enjoy and produce music. During the last two decades, there has been an explosion of theoretical proposals aimed at explaining why and how humans have evolved into musical beings, and the empirical comparative research has also gained momentum. In this paper, we focus on the rhythmic component of musicality, and review functional and mechanistic theoretical proposals on abilities regarded as prerequisites for perceiving and producing rhythmic structures similar to those encountered in music. For each theoretical proposal we also review supporting and contradictory empirical findings. To acknowledge that the evolutionary study of musicality requires an interdisciplinary approach, our review strives to cover perspectives and findings from as many disciplines as possible. We conclude with a research agenda that highlights relevant, yet thus far neglected topics in the comparative and evolutionary study of rhythm cognition. Specifically, we call for a widened research focus that will include additional rhythmic abilities besides entrainment, additional channels of perception and production besides the auditory and vocal ones, and a systematic focus on the functional contexts in which rhythmic signals spontaneously occur. With this expanded focus, and drawing from systematic observation and experimentation anchored in multiple disciplines, animal research is bound to generate many important insights into the adaptive pressures that forged the component abilities of human rhythm cognition and their (socio-)cognitive and (neuro-)biological underpinnings.

II.—The General History of the Cephalopoda, Recent and Fossil

1878 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 487-499
Author(s):  
Agnes Crane
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Science Review ◽  
Total Length ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Many of the living forms of Cephalopodous molluscs are now, thanks to the Brighton Aquarium, familiar to us all; and, as the habits and characteristics of the squids, octopods, and cuttles have been duly recorded by Mr. Henry Lee in his amusing book on “The Octopus,” published in 1875, I shall here restrict myself to those points in the structure of the living forms which bear upon the history of the class as a whole, giving merely those anatomical details which are absolutely indispensable for a right comprehension of the nature and affinities of the numerous fossil and extinct members of the order. I may, however, observe, en passant, that the existence of a certain sub-stratum of truth in the old stories of giant Cephalopods was ably proved by Mr. Saville Kent, in the “Popular Science Review,” for 1874, and that specimens have been more recently cast ashore in Trinity and Logie Bays, on the coast of Newfoundland, that may fairly claim to be of enormous dimensions. Thus, in a truly formidable calamary, or squid, the tentacular arms measured 30 feet, the largest suckers being one inch in diameter, the shorter (or pedal) arms were 11 feet long, and the body was 10 feet. Professor Verrill has also described a huge cuttle, estimating the total length at 40 feet, the large tentacles were 26 feet long, with a maximum circumference of 16 inches at their union to the body. A new genus of calamary, allied to the Architeuthis of Steenstrup, with arms measuring over 23 feet, was discovered on the island of St. Paul, in the Indian Ocean, by M. Charles Vélain, the naturalist attached to the French Expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus, at that station. The size attained by some of the fossil species will be noted in the sequel.

scholarly journals Antibody Formation in COVID-19 and Immunisation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
James Pandarakalam ◽  
James Pandarakalam
Keyword(s):  
T Cells ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzle ◽  
Vaccine Production ◽  
Antibody Testing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sudden Appearance ◽  
Existential Problem

Antibody testing is vital in the study of the dangerousness, spread, identification of high-risk individuals and vaccine production against SARS-CoV-2. Viruses leave trails in the infected body and the immunologists turn out to be the detectives examining these viral footprints. There are two major types of tracks or memory responses that can be utilized by the body against reinfection: B cells which produce antibodies and T cells organising responses through cytotoxic cells and restricting viral replication. T cells’ memory of SARS-CoV-2 appears to last longer than antibodies and immunisation can activate T cells as well if it fails to induce long term antibody production. The immune history of SARS-CoV-2 is a huge jigsaw puzzle; several pieces are still missing. This viral research has met with a shortage of valuable foundational knowledge because of the sudden appearance of the virus and its spread. COVID-19 has posed an existential problem for the whole of human society.

scholarly journals Towards a global perspective on early modern slave trade: prices of the enslaved in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago and Atlantic worlds

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Matthias van Rossum
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
The Body ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Trade Prices ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
First Time

Abstract Despite the growth of studies on slavery and slave trade outside the Atlantic world in recent years, especially in the early modern Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago worlds, our knowledge of regional price levels and their development remains surprisingly underdeveloped. This article questions how the price of enslaved people developed in the multi-directional and multi-faceted Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago slave trade, how this compared to the Atlantic world and what this tells us about slave trade and slavery in different parts of the world. Drawing on evidence from a large variety of sources, mainly from the Dutch Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago world, this article expands the body of data significantly and provides for the first time a reconstruction of the level of slave trade prices and their development in several important supplying and demanding slave trade regions in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago world and compares these to the development of slave prices in the Atlantic slave trade.

Felicia Hemans, “Casabianca”

Heart Beats ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Robson
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
Felicia Hemans ◽  
Short Term ◽  
History Of

This chapter focuses on the poem, “Casabianca,” by Felicia Hemans, which presents the spectacle of a child sailor who is blown to pieces because his sense of duty keeps him standing on deck during the bombardment of his ship. This poem is used as a lens to examine the processes whereby the performance of poetry in Britain's elementary schools forged short-term and long-term bodily relationships between individuals and measured language. Looking, among other things, at the history of corporal punishment within mass education, the chapter considers not only what happened to children, but also to poems with regular rhythms, during the process of enforced recitation. The fragmented survival of “Casabianca” in popular consciousness today, this chapter argues, is the last remaining trace of its pedagogical past, of a time when poetry was experienced in and through the body.

scholarly journals Acupuncture and its Effects on Chronic Pain

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
Pavan Patel ◽  
Michael Sabia ◽  
Jashen Patheja ◽  
Rohan Kapoor ◽  
Tiffany Mathias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
The Body ◽  
Acupuncture Points ◽  
Energy Flows ◽  
History Of

Acupuncture is an complementary form of medicine that has relatively recently become a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It involves the application of thin needles at specific points throughout the body, although initially, general areas instead of points were used. There are estimated to be about 395 different points that can be utilized, and the technique behind using these points can vary widely between practitioners. In addition to acupuncture points, TCM is said to use meridians or pathways along with qi, or energy flows. In terms of acupunctures’ utility, it has been known to treat a variety of ailments ranging from pain and headaches to sleep disturbances, but it's true benefits continue to be questioned. To date, thousands of studies have been performed in regards to its efficacy with varying conclusions. Once considered to be “pseudomedicine”, this ancient technique has been found to provide long-term benefits for patients with chronic pain. This manuscript aims at providing a brief history of acupuncture and examines studies in favor of its relief of chronic pain.

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