Exploring Issues in Transnational Sport History

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Robert J. Lake ◽  
Simon J. Eaves
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Nonstate Actors ◽  
Sport History ◽  
Government Influence ◽  
Precise Meaning

Increasingly, sport has become an important lens through which to examine the historical influences of, and issues related to, transnational interactions and exchanges, yet the term “transnational” remains beset with disagreement regarding its precise meaning and definition. Commonly, transnational approaches to the historical study of sport provide opportunities to reach beyond “the nation,” whereby the nation–state is not positioned, necessarily, as the central category of analysis in discussions of cultural exchange between or across nations and borders. In such analyses, nonstate actors—essentially, those working outside of government influence—can move from the periphery to the center of focus. Challenging the dominant narrative of much historical research into globalization in sport that has tended to dwell on the negative, transnational approaches, as evidenced in this collection, offer new opportunities to consider positive, progressive, and co-operative aspects inherent to the connections and exchanges examined.

scholarly journals ‘Preserve or perish’: food preservation practices in the early modern kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-33
Author(s):  
Lucy J. Havard
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Food Preservation ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Associated Knowledge

Early modern manuscript recipe books have become increasingly popular sources for historical research over recent years. Extensive compilations of food recipes, medicinal remedies and household tips, these manuscripts provide rich, multi-faceted opportunities for historical study and discussion. This paper utilizes recipe books as a means to examine contemporary food preservation practices. Through detailed textual analysis of these manuscripts, and the reconstruction of early modern preserving recipes, I explore the explicit and tacit ‘domestic knowledge’ required for food preservation. I argue that, rather than being a straightforward activity, this was a complex process requiring significant judgement, intuition and experience on the part of the housewife. Preservation was an experimental practice that might be considered under the umbrella of early modern natural philosophy, and the housewife was a legitimate actor in the associated knowledge production.

Jihad in a World of Sovereigns: Law, Violence, and Islam in the Bosnia Crisis

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (02) ◽  
pp. 371-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryl Li
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
International Community ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Nonstate Actors ◽  
Archival Research

This article argues that jihads waged in recent decades by “foreign fighter” volunteers invoking a sense of global Islamic solidarity can be usefully understood as attempts to enact an alternative to the interventions of the “International Community.” Drawing from ethnographic and archival research on Arab volunteers who joined the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia‐Herzegovina, this article highlights the challenges and dilemmas facing such jihad fighters as they maneuvered at the edges of diverse legal orders, including international and Islamic law. Jihad fighters appealed to a divine authority above the global nation‐state order while at the same time rooting themselves in that order through affiliation with the sovereign and avowedly secular nation‐state of Bosnia‐Herzegovina. This article demonstrates an innovative approach to law, violence, and Islam that critically situates states and nonstate actors in relation to one another in transnational perspective.

WHY BOTHER ABOUT HISTORICAL REGIONS?: DEBATES OVER CENTRAL EUROPE IN HUNGARY, POLAND AND ROMANIA

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Janowski ◽  
Constantin Iordachi ◽  
Balázs Trencsényi
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
National Level ◽  
Local History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Old Kingdom

The article analyzes the ways in which the concept of Central Europe and related regional classifications were instrumentalized in historical research in Hungary, Poland and Romania. While Hungarian and Polish historians employed the discourse of Central Europe as a central means to contextualize and often relativize established national historical narratives, their geographical frameworks of comparison were nevertheless fairly divergent. the Hungarian one relating to the former Habsburg and Austro-Hungarian lands while the Polish one revolving around the tradition of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. Romanian historians approached the issue from the perspective of local history, debating two alternative regional frameworks: the Old Kingdom, treated as part ofthe Byzantine and Ottoman legacies, and Transylvania, Bukovina and the Banat that were shaped by the Habsburg project of modemity. In the Romanian context the debate on Central Europe reached its peak at a time when it lost re1evance in the Polish and Hungarian contexts. While conceding to recent critiques on the constructed and often exclusivist nature of symbolic geographical catcgories, the authors maintain the heuristic valuc of regional frameworks of interpretation as models of historical explanation transcending the nation-state at sub-national or trans-national level.

scholarly journals Displacements of Memory

Refuge ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Philip Marfleet
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Forced Migrants ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

The experiences of refugees—their “voices” and memories—have routinely been excluded from the historical record. With rare exceptions, refugees are absent from mainstream history: although specific episodes of forced migration may be carefully recorded and even celebrated in national histories, most refugee movements are ignored and their participants silenced. This article examines the practice of exclusion and its implications for historical research and for the study of forced migration. It considers experiences of refugees from the early modern era until the twenty-first century, mobilizing examples from Europe, the Americas, and South Asia, and offering comparative observations. It examines relationships between forced migrants and institutions of the nation-state, and the meanings of exclusion within ideologies of national belonging. It considers remedial measures and their implications for current efforts to ensure refugee voices are heard and understood.

Historical Study of Societal Transformations in the Extended Indian Ocean Realm

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-235
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
The West ◽  
Realistic Approach ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Historiography

Abstract Western historiography placed the indigenous Asia beyond the court political centers and the most commercially prominent ports-of-trade in the background of an exogenous (colonial) foreground. Western historical research from the sixteenth century onward privileged selected aspects and voices of the exogenous, focusing on the Arabic and Persian Middle East, India, China, and the West, represented from the nineteenth century onward by the terms Islamization, Indianization, Sinification, and Westernization. Today, historians who study the Indian Ocean give “agency” to things indigenous when they are juxtaposed to things exogenous. Local activities, events, beliefs, institutions, communities, individuals, and historical narratives are emphasized, given weight, and “privileged” over dependency on the exogenous. Simply taking agency away from the exogenous and giving it to the indigenous may seem to be a more realistic approach to overcoming the “from the deck of a ship” critique, but the issue of emphasis and privileging at the expense of “another” remains. Historians researching the non-West have tempered their previously held stance on this issue and now admit the depth and scale of influence that major exogenous civilizations (e.g., the Middle East, China, India, and the West) have had on some local cultures.

Historical Approaches to the Study of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Knepper
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Film History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Journalism History ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
History Of

Historical study of crime, media, and popular culture has been underway since “the cultural turn” in the social sciences and humanities in the 1980s. Since then, a diverse literature has emerged presenting different theories, dealing with various time periods and topics, and challenging contemporary assumptions. Much of this work has focused on the press, because newspaper archives offer a familiar source for researchers accustomed to working with documents in libraries and because “moral panic” has provided a theory that can be easy moved from one time and place to another. However, crime, media, and popular culture presents a vast history and much of this has yet to be examined by criminologists. It includes broadcast radio, television, and feature films, as well as folklore, ballad and song, and theatrical performance, not to mention novels and stories. There has been enough historical research by specialists in literature, journalism history, film history, and other fields to demonstrate the value of historical research for criminology. But making to most of this history will require methodological innovation and theoretical development. To understand the history of crime, media, and popular culture, criminologists will need to move away from document-based historical research and toward digital forms of archived media. They will also need to develop theoretical perspectives beyond 1970s sociology.

An Empirical Study of Historical Patterns in Musical Rhythm

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Daniele ◽  
Aniruddh D. Patel
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Empirical Measure ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Musical Rhythm ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Variability Index ◽  
Italian Music

This paper introduces a new approach for the historical study of musical rhythm based on an empirical measure of rhythm known as the nPVI (‘normalized pairwise variability index’). The nPVI is an equation that measures the degree of durational contrast between successive events in a sequence. While the nPVI is increasingly used for comparative studies of rhythm in music and language, we show that it can also be used for historical research. A historical analysis of musical nPVI values from German/Austrian and Italian instrumental classical music between ∼1600-1900 reveals different patterns in the two cultures: German/Austrian music shows a steady increase in nPVI values over this period, while Italian music shows no salient increase. These patterns are discussed in light of the idea (from historical musicology) that the influence of Italian music on German music began to wane in the second half of the 1700s due to a rise of musical nationalism in Germany. The nPVI data prove to be consistent with this idea, illustrating how nPVI analysis can reveal patterns that enrich and inform historical research.

Documenting 15 Years (2000-2015) of SOPHE Achievements

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-215
Author(s):  
Julia M. Alber ◽  
Jay M. Bernhardt ◽  
Michael Stellefson ◽  
Samantha R. Paige
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of

For over six decades, the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) has been a leading professional organization for the field of health education (HE). This historical research extends the work of Cissell and Bloom by investigating the recent history of SOPHE. The aims of this historical study were to (1) identify key SOPHE and HE events from 2000 to 2015, (2) describe key contributions of SOPHE to the HE field during this time period, and (3) identify potential future directions for SOPHE. Johnson and Christensen’s five steps for historical research were followed to conduct an eDelphi study and one-on-one interviews. During the three-round eDelphi study, SOPHE officers ( n = 16) and senior staff ( n = 5), who served between 2000 and 2015, identified significant SOPHE’s leaders and rated the importance of SOPHE’s recent events. Key leaders ( n = 25) participated in semistructured interviews to describe their involvement in SOPHE, specific SOPHE activities, and future directions for SOPHE. Brief, structured intercept interviews were also conducted with student ( n = 10) and professional SOPHE members ( n = 11). Data collected during the eDelphi study were analyzed to determine central tendency statistics and percent agreement on each event evaluated in the second- and third-round surveys. Qualitative interview data were analyzed with NVivo using thematic analysis. Data from the eDelphi study revealed 29 SOPHE and 17 HE events that occurred between 2000 and 2015 as being “important” or “very important.” Results from the thematic analysis revealed several themes in three areas: SOPHE accomplishments, benefits of SOPHE membership, and possible future directions for SOPHE to explore.

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