scholarly journals BOCCHETTI, CARLA (DIR.) GLOBAL HISTORY, EAST AFRICA AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITIONS. LES CAHIERS D’AFRIQUE DE L’EST (IFRA). IFRA: NAIRÓBI, SPECIAL ISSUE, N. 51, 2016. 216 p. ISSN: 2071-7245

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Global History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Classical Traditions

BOCCHETTI, CARLA (DIR.) GLOBAL HISTORY, EAST AFRICA AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITIONS. LES CAHIERS D’AFRIQUE DE L’EST (IFRA). IFRA: NAIRÓBI, SPECIAL ISSUE, N. 51, 2016. 216 p.ISSN: 2071-7245 (Resenha)

scholarly journals Introduction: a global history of the Irish Revolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (165) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Enda Delaney ◽  
Fearghal McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Global History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Irish Nationalism ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Irish Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractHow might the history of Ireland's revolution be reassessed if viewed within a transnational, comparative or global framework? Drawing attention to recent writing on the subject, this introduction considers the conceptual and historiographical issues at stake in reframing the history of the Irish Revolution, as well as considering potential limitations to these approaches. We assess what topics in particular lend themselves to a fresh perspective focusing on Irish nationalism, while also indicating areas where there is considerable scope for new lines of inquiry. In this era of intensive commemoration of the events that unfolded between 1912 and 1923, this special issue serves to remind us that the history of the revolution should not be confined to the island of Ireland. We argue that thinking transnationally and comparatively can promote a more inclusive and diverse global history of Irish Revolution.

scholarly journals Whither Globalization? An Interview with Roland Robertson

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 169-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Featherstone
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Global History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
30Th Anniversary

In this interview to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Theory, Culture & Society special issue on Global Culture, Roland Robertson reflects on his long involvement as one of the major theorists of globalization. He recounts how in his early years as a sociologist there was strong resistance to thinking beyond the nation-state society. He comments on the emergence of the field of transdisciplinary global studies, the concern with global culture and his own attempts to extend the concept of globalization by developing the term glocalization. He also discusses the present Covid-19 pandemic and ends with a number of reflections on global history.

scholarly journals Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century – Towards a Global Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-518
Author(s):  
Bianca Gaudenzi ◽  
Astrid Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Global History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World War ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

Introducing the Journal of Contemporary History Special Issue ‘The Restitution of Looted Art in the 20th Century’, this article proposes a framework for writing the history of looting and restitution in transnational and global perspective. By comparing and contextualizing instances of looting and restitution in different geographical and temporal contexts, it aims to overcome existing historiographical fragmentations and move past the overwhelming focus on the specificities of Nazi looting through an extended timeframe that inserts the Second World War into a longer perspective from the nineteenth century up to present day restitution practices. Particular emphasis is put on the interlinked histories of denazification and decolonization. Problematizing existing analytical, chronological and geographical frameworks, the article suggests how a combination of comparative, entangled and global history approaches can open up promising new avenues of research. It draws out similarities, differences and connections between processes of looting and restitution in order to discuss the extent to which looting and restitution were shaped by – and shaped – changing global networks.

scholarly journals Special Issue: Exploring the Global History of American Evangelicalism Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1019-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENDRICK OLIVER ◽  
UTA A. BALBIER ◽  
HANS KRABBENDAM ◽  
AXEL R. SCHÄFER
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Global History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Evangelicalism

This introduction embeds theExploring the Global History of American Evangelicalismspecial issue into current historiographical debates in the field of US evangelicalism and globalization. It lays out the methodological framework and thematic scope of the special issue.

scholarly journals Global Religious History as a Rhizome: Colonial Panics and Political Islam in German East Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 321-344
Author(s):  
Jörg Haustein
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Global History ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Methodology ◽  
German East Africa ◽  
Academic Debate ◽  
Colonial Encounters

Abstract A Global History of Religion aims to trace connections, controversies, and contingencies in the emergence of “religion” as a global category. Its main intention is to de-center European epistemologies of religion by drawing out a more intricate global and plural genealogy. This is a very complex endeavour, however, especially when one leaves the realm of academic debate and considers the quotidian understandings of “religion” emerging in colonial encounters. Here one is often confronted by vast entanglements of practices, perceptions and politics, which need a historical methodology that foregrounds the plurality, complexity and historicity of all religious epistemes. Drawing on Deleuze’ and Guattari’s philosophical figure of the rhizome, this article sketches such an approach in a conversation between theory and historiographical practice, as it maps out a particular episode in the construction of “political Islam” in German East Africa.

Facing the World: Towards a Global History of Non-Latin Type Design

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-411
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Mullaney
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Global History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Type Design ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
History Of ◽  
Printed Word ◽  
Archival Work

Abstract This essay serves as the entry point into a broader exploration of critical issues in the history of “non-Latin” type design—that is, type design beyond the Latin alphabet. With special emphasis on certain scripts (Arabic, Chinese, Greek, and Devanagari, among others) and regions (South Asia, East Asia, South Africa, and beyond), this special issue brings together practicing designers and scholars, federating rigorous archival work, practice-based insight, and a deep engagement with the global history of the written, designed, and printed word.

scholarly journals Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ismay Milford ◽  
Gerard McCann ◽  
Emma Hunter ◽  
Daniel Branch
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Global History ◽  
East African ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Postcolonial States

Abstract This article proposes that there is a gap in our current understanding of the globalising and deglobalising dynamics of mid-twentieth-century East Africa, one that might be addressed by consolidating and taking forward recent developments in the historiography of decolonisation. Recent work by international historians has recovered the connected world of the 1940s to 1960s: the era of new postcolonial states, the ‘Bandung moment’, pan-African cooperation, and the early Cold War. Yet East Africa is less prominent in these histories than we might expect, despite the vibrancy of current work on this period in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Bringing these two fields into dialogue, through an explicitly regional East African framework and with a particular focus on individual lives, expands our understanding not only of the ‘globalisation of decolonisation’ but also of the deglobalising dynamics of the following decades that are frequently reduced to a history of global economic crisis.

scholarly journals TIME AND DISTANCE: REFLECTIONS ON LOCAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY FROM EAST AFRICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 253-272
Author(s):  
Richard Reid
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Local History ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Global History ◽  
Global Order

ABSTRACTThis paper is concerned with East Africans’ perceptions of the intersection between their own, highly charged and contested, local histories, and the global past, as well as their place in it. The two case studies on which the paper is based – Eritrea and Uganda – have much in common in terms of recent history, not least in their experience of prolonged violence, and thus taken together they elucidate distinctive characteristics. Yet they also illustrate broader phenomena. On one level, particular interpretations of local history – both the deeper, precolonial past and the more recent, twentieth-century past – are utilised to critique the flow of global history, as well as the impositions of globalisation, and to emphasise the bitter experience of marginality and lack of agency. At the same time, the global past – conceptualised as the evolution of an intrusive, imperialist, hypocritical global order imposed by foreigners, usually Western in provenance – is seen as omnipresent and pervasive, and thus the arguments made around marginality serve to remind us, paradoxically, how central these communities are (or should be) to the framing of global history.

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