THE PURSUIT OF REALITY: RECENT RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1069-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
MALCOLM GASKILL
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Area ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Psychological Phenomenon ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
State Of The Field

ABSTRACTIn recent years the outpouring of historical work on witchcraft has been prodigious. Twenty-first-century studies encompass every conceivable chronological and geographical area, from antiquity to the present, Massachusetts to Muscovy. Approaches have been varied, with witchcraft explored as an intellectual, legal, political, social, cultural, and psychological phenomenon. Of particular interest – and difficulty – is the ‘reality’ of witchcraft: how historians might recover contemporary meanings, beyond the meanings imposed by rationalists, romantics, and social scientists. This article examines nine books from the last five years to assess the state of the field, and to offer some suggestions for research in the future.

Pietro Basso,Modern Times, Ancient Hours: Working Livesin the Twenty-first Century. London: Verso, 2003. pp. 275. $27.00 cloth.

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 134-136
Author(s):  
Gerd-Rainer Horn
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Working Time ◽  
First Century ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century

For some time now, sociologists, economists and assorted futurologists have flooded the pages of learned journals and the shelves of libraries with analyses of the continuing decline of industrial and other forms of labor. In proportion to the decline of working time, those social scientists proclaim, the forward march of leisure has become an irresistible trend of the most recent past, the present and, most definitely, the future. Those of us living on planet earth have on occasion wondered about the veracity of such claims which, quite often, appear to stand in flat contradiction to our experiences in everyday life. The work of the Italian sociologist Pietro Basso is thus long overdue and proves to be a welcome refutation of this genre of, to paraphrase Basso, obfuscating hallucinations.

Brown Studies Now and in Transition

2019 ◽  
pp. 555-570
Author(s):  
Hannah Lauren Murray
Keyword(s):  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Charles Brockden Brown ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early National ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
State Of The Field

This chapter examines the state of the field of Charles Brockden Brown studies since 2000. Taking a thematic approach, I discuss four dominant strands in twenty-first-century criticism: geographies, medical humanities, economies, and aesthetics. These sections cover the scholarly debate over a transnational, imperial, or postcolonial Brown; consider the new ways in which early national medicine intersects with his fiction; chart the rise of market and class-based criticism; and discuss a return to formal concerns in light of the aesthetic or postcritique turn. The final section of this chapter looks ahead to emergent trends in future Brown scholarship in response to the previous decade’s work.

The Future Stops Here

Old Futures ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 88-96
Author(s):  
Alexis Lothian
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
First Century ◽  
First Child ◽  
Queer Of Color ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

The first wormhole chapter uses a speculative engagement with Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film Children of Men to link disparate times and spaces in the book: the history of no future shown by feminist, eugenic, imperial narratives in part 1 and the affirmative prospects for queer of color futures in part 2. The major studio film, filmed in London by the Mexican director, highlights the presence in twenty-first-century transnational popular culture of tropes from the fictional futures examined in the previous pages. Cuarón’s adaptation of the 1992 novel by P. D. James underlines the ways in which hopeful futurity is unevenly distributed along the same lines of race, gender, sexuality, capital, and globalization that determine who gets to be seen as fully human. The contradictions surrounding the character of Kee—a black woman pregnant with the first child to be born in decades whose representation in the film leaves much to be desired—become a point of possibility opening on to different worlds and futures.

The Future of the Novel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Boxall ◽  
Bryan Cheyette
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter addresses the future of the novel. It also reflects on the possibility and nature of historical change. The push and pull between the novel as an expressive symptom of an ailing culture, and the novel as the engine for the production of new cultural possibilities, runs through the long history of novelists’ reflections on the future of the novel. From our perspective in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the perception of a watershed triggered by 1973, and a new understanding of the relationship between style, fiction, and knowledge, seems remarkably prescient. Moreover, the new generation of novelists that have emerged since the turn of the century have collectively registered the re-emergence of a kind of historical vitality in the culture.

Insurrection as history from Guy Fawkes to black blocs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Loadenthal
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
September 11 ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
Modern History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Cell Networks

This chapter develops the pre-modern history of insurrectionary methods, pursued through a genealogical account of history and discourse. Beginning with a discussion of the genealogical approach as presented by Michele Foucault, this is followed by an exploration of insurrectionism as a form of guerrilla warfare. After affirming that insurrectionary action is indeed within a militant tradition, the reader is led through several hundred years of history that traces the roots of those advocating direct, unmediated attacks on the state—latter termed “propaganda of the deed.” Through examples drawn largely from Europe and North America, special attention is paid to those engaged in theatrical, public attacks, as well as the networks surrounding Luigi Galleani and the Bonnot Gang. Finally, this history is brought into the twenty-first century, linking the anti-globalization movement of the late 1990 and early 2000s, to the decline of that movement following the attacks of September 11, 2001. In its conclusion, the chapter considers whether the decline of the anti-globalization, counter-summit movement emboldened the formation and internationalization of clandestine cell networks promoting insurrectionary attack.

scholarly journals Fra Lippo Lippi: Browning's Reflections on Life and Art

IIUC Studies ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehnuma Bint Anis
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Robert Browning ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Dramatic Monologue ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century

The state of intellectual curiosity in the twenty first century is that there is no publicly accepted moral and emotional Truth, there are only perspectives towards it - those partial meanings which individuals may get a glimpse of at particular moments but which, formulated as ideas for other moments and people, become problematical. The empiricism in Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, ‘Fra Lippo Lippi', as demonstrated by its disequilibrium between sympathy and judgement, is a sign that it imitates not life but a particular perspective towards life, somebody's experience of it. Robert Browning gives us his own version of Truth, about life and art, as he saw it, in one of his most delightful and revealing monologures, ‘Fra Lippo Lippi'. We find in Browning's poetry what our age most needs, faith which is adequate and consistent with our intellectual culture and which indicates the direction in which we must look for the religion of the future. This paper explores the purpose of life on this earth in the light of Browning's reflections on life and art in ‘Fra Lippo Lippi'. Doi: IIUC Studies Vol.2 2004

The End of Neoliberalism?

2011 ◽  
Vol 637 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Comaroff
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The State ◽  
Common Noun ◽  
First Century ◽  
Finance Capital ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship

In the wake of the economic “meltdown” of 2008, there arose considerable public debate across the planet over the fates and futures of neoliberalism. Had it reached its “natural” end? What, historically, was likely to become of “it”? How might the crisis in the Euro-American economies of the period transform the relationship between economy and the state? This article addresses these questions. It argues against treating neoliberalism as a common noun, a fully formed, self-sustaining ideological project and makes the case that its adjectival and adverbial capillaries alive, well, and, if in complicated ways, central to the unfolding history of contemporary capitalism. Finally, the article offers a reflection on the ways in which twenty-first-century states have become integral to the workings of finance capital, with important consequences for the conception of political economy.

Music Research and the Sound Archive: A Meditation on Ethnomusicological Engagement with Collection-Oriented Research and Re(p)(m)atriation

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 103-126
Author(s):  
MONIQUE GIROUX
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Music Research ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Research Orientations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Oriented Research

AbstractIn this article, I address collecting and re(p)(m)atriation as research orientations. I draw on examples from Métis music to situate the impact of collection-oriented research, to interrogate my own practice as a Métis-music scholar, and to point to possibilities for the future. In presenting a history of collecting alongside an overview of re(p)(m)atriation, I offer readers an opportunity to meditate on the pervasiveness of collection-oriented research and how we might create a new ethnomusicology—meditations encouraged through poetic expressions. I suggest that twenty-first century ethnomusicology needs to turn towards rematriation, not only as an act of returning artifacts, but also as a way of orienting our work as scholars.

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