Technology and the logic of American racism: a cultural history of the body as evidence

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (01) ◽  
pp. 39-0067-39-0067
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
The Body ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Racism

The World we Have Lost

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Boldizzoni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Economic Cycles ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Money Price

This chapter covers macroeconomic issues, including economic cycles, money, price levels, the nature of growth, and the historical roots of underdevelopment. It shows how the micro level is logically linked to the macro level. It also argues that the crisis of the French-style economic history in the past twenty years is due more to French historians transferring their interest to cultural history. However, abandoning quantitative history in favor of the histoire des mentalités does not imply there is no room for economic history alongside the new political history and other aspects such as the history of the body and the history of death that were once considered eccentric.

On Writing the History of the Body in Pain

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Kathleen Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Bodily Pain ◽  
The Body ◽  
American People ◽  
African American People ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
History Of

This essay makes the case for a cultural history of bodily pain that keeps the problem of representation at the forefront of its analysis. Specifically, it explores how historians have written about bodily pain in relation to American slavery and freedom. It also explores efforts by African American people, free and enslaved, to create counter-discourses that cast them as subjects in the battle over slavery. In doing so, the essay explores the multiple investments in bodily pain and the ethical questions raised when writing about the pain of another.

scholarly journals Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century: An Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Bonah ◽  
Anja Laukötter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
The Body ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

To introduce Body, Capital, and Screens as a series of in-depth case studies at the intersection of film and media studies and the social and cultural history of the body, we have chosen, as with all of the contributions, a film emblematic for the chapter’s specific thematic focus: Victoire de la vie/Victory of life (FR, 1937) by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Through these images, we intend to detail our approach illustrating how the material and social aspects of moving images have served as a hyphen between body politics, on the one hand, and the market as the 20th century’s primary form of social and economic organization, on the other. We lay out the framework for connecting bodies and capital with the significance of a century’s worth of utility media culture.

Presentation

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Redacción CEIICH
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
History Of

<p class="p1">The third number of <span class="s1"><strong>INTER</strong></span><span class="s2"><strong>disciplina </strong></span>underscores this generic reference of <em>Bodies </em>as an approach to a key issue in the understanding of social reality from a humanistic perspective, and to understand, from the social point of view, the contributions of the research in philosophy of the body, cultural history of the anatomy, as well as the approximations queer, feminist theories and the psychoanalytical, and literary studies.</p>

Willemijn Ruberg, History of the Body

Somatechnics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-455
Author(s):  
Danielle Kinsey
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
History Of

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
William G. Pooley
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
Key Points ◽  
History Of ◽  
Star Performers ◽  
Cultural Agency ◽  
Local Cultures

The conclusion draws together ideas from the book, suggesting a few key points. First, it draws attention to the cultural agency of ‘exemplars’, or what folklorists have sometimes called ‘star performers’. Singers and storytellers like Henri Vidal, Marie Bouzats, or Catherine Gentes are not just important because they were typical, but because they played leading roles in local cultures. The conclusion argues that such exemplars allow historians to perceive changing cultures of the body which cannot be reduced to the simple advent of a ‘modern’ body. The example of the moorlands of Gascony suggests broader patterns in the history of the body during the period of modernization.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
William G. Pooley
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Top Down ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
Performance Variation ◽  
History Of

This chapter situates the book as an intervention in discussions of the history of the body, suggesting that the experiences of the working population have often been absent from discussions of changing bodily cultures, which have instead tended to focus on elite discourses. The chapter suggests that the moorlands of Gascony in south-western France make a particularly powerful example, because of the scale and speed of top-down reforms of the landscape following a national law passed in 1857, which encouraged the forestation of the moorlands. The region also boasts one of the most impressive ethnographic archives, thanks to the work of the folklorist Félix Arnaudin (1844–1921). The chapter finishes with an outline of key methodologies drawn from folklore studies, including the study of performance, variation, and traceability.

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