A Scholar’s Guide to Research, Collaboration, and Publication in NINES

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Nowviskie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Faceted Browsing ◽  
Nineteenth Century Studies

Abstract This essay offers a rationale for the design of Collex, the social software and faceted browsing system that powers NINES, a “networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship.” It describes how Collex serves as a clearinghouse and collaborative hub for NINES, allowing scholars to search, browse, collect, and annotate digital objects relevant to nineteenth-century studies from a variety of peer-reviewed sources. It also looks forward to the next version of Collex, which will include a sophisticated exhibits builder, through which scholars can “remix” or re-purpose collected objects into annotated bibliographies, course syllabi, illustrated essays, and chronologies – and contribute these resources back into the NINES collective. A detailed guide to using Collex, complete with screenshots, is included. This article frequently links directly into the NINES system (in which, by virtue of its publication in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, it is already included), thereby gesturing at the future of networked, “born-digital” scholarship.

scholarly journals Przestrogi dla utopistów. Wizje optimum dóbr w historii idei w książce Andrzeja Waśkiewicza

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-167
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Sokół
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Orders

The subject of this essay is Andrzej Waśkiewicz’s book Ludzie – rzeczy – ludzie. O porządkach społecznych, gdzie rzeczy łączą, nie dzielą (People–Things–People: On Social Orders Where Things Connect Rather Than Divide People). The book is the work of a historian of ideas and concerns contemporary searches for alternatives to capitalism: the review presents the book’s overview of visions of society in which the market, property, inequality, or profit do not play significant roles. Such visions reach back to Western utopian social and political thought, from Plato to the nineteenth century. In comparing these ideas with contemporary visions of the world of post-capitalism, the author of the book proposes a general typology of such images. Ultimately, in reference to Simmel, he takes a critical stance toward the proposals, recognizing the exchange of goods to be a fundamental and indispensable element of social life. The author of the review raises two issues that came to mind while reading the book. First, the juxtaposition of texts of a very different nature within the uniform category of “utopia” causes us to question the role and status of reflections regarding the future and of speculative theory in contemporary social thought; second, such a juxtaposition suggests that reflecting on the social “optimal good” requires a much more precise and complex conception of a “thing,” for instance, as is proposed by new materialism or anthropological studies of objects and value as such.

Realism and Hope After Niebuhr

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
John C. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Fourth Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Great Force

I have already lived in three different theological climates, during three periods marked by quite different hopes and expectations for the future of humanity. I am not sure whether or not we are entering a fourth period, but the pattern of both commitments and hopes is less clear than it seemed to be in the recent past.Before 1930 and back into the late nineteenth century there was the period of the Social Gospel, which was a great force in the churches and which reflected the secular expectations of progress that were general at the time. I was part of this movement myself and to a large extent shared its hopes, though I never believed that progress was inevitable or irreversible.

A Space for Time

Futures ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Sandra Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Temporal Organization ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Essay Tests

This essay analyses the role of museums in the creation of futures imaginaries and the ways in which these are embedded in socio-political narratives over time (narratives of nation, empire, power, consumption, and home). The essay tests its hypotheses through charting the evolution of the nineteenth-century phenomenon of the soirée—exhibitions and events showcasing technological, scientific, and cultural innovations of the future—from their heyday in the mid nineteenth century to their demise in the early twentieth century. In particular, the essay explores the social, spatial, and temporal organization of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century soirée display spaces as carriers of future worlds. It argues that the creation of futures imaginaries depends on interrelationships between people and objects across space and time, and that the complex web of relations established between words, objects, spaces, and people in exhibitions provides catalysts for ideas, ideologies, and narratives of the future.

Blogging the City

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Clavel ◽  
Kenneth Fox ◽  
Christopher Leo ◽  
Anabel Quan-Hasse ◽  
Dean Saitta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Academic blogging has typically been a form of digital scholarship that is under-utilized in academia. Although there are both costs and benefits to blogging at different stages in an academic's career, blogs can provide a rewarding platform for bringing research and academic perspectives to a wide-reaching and broader audience. This note explores the different experiences of each of the co-authors in terms of using blogs for their scholarly communication. The experiences and lessons gained are of particular relevance to urban planners, sociologists, and anthropologists, who study the social, economic, and historical elements of the city. The findings suggest that the motivations and approaches of scholarly blogging are diverse but overall add value to the academic community. Moreover, each testimony in this note provides examples of the benefits of blogging for research, collaboration, and engagement.

scholarly journals The future of the stranger: Jewish exemplarity and the social imagination

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-243
Author(s):  
Jakob Egholm Feldt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Transmission Lines ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Anti Jewish ◽  
American Pragmatist ◽  
The Stranger

This article shows how Jewish social strangeness is a key notion for a trajectory of theorizing from Moses Hess’ socialist and nationalist thought in the middle of the nineteenth century to American pragmatist sociology early in the twentieth century. It situates “the Jewish stranger” on the transmission lines of trajectories of thought pertaining to Jewish exemplarity, and it explores how this Jewish exemplarity was transformed toward new future horizons for Jews but also for the generalized “stranger.” It is argued that the Jewish exemplarity perspective itself represented a subtle redirection of strong Kantian and Hegelian anti-Jewish historical teleologies via an alternative “processual” historical logic. “Jewish strangers” both bear and are borne by the totality of social imagination in society, both agents of but also bound by history. In this way, the exemplarity of the European Jews illuminates the process of the becoming of “the stranger” as a historical and social role within boundaries set by a coinciding of history and teleology.

Keynes and Proudhon

1942 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudley Dillard
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Technical Theory

Since the beginning of the world-wide depression of the 1930's thewritings of J. M. Keynes have furnished the chief stimulus for serious discussion of economic policy and economic theory. There is implicit in the Keynesian position an interpretation of capitalism strikingly similar to that of P. J. Proudhon, the French socialist of the nineteenth century. Yet whatever similarities there are between the economic ideas of Keynes and Proudhon must be explained by time-separated reaction to more or less comparable problems. The only formal linkage between the two theorists would be their relations to Silvio Gesell, the stamped-money reformer. Keynes expresses admiration for the fundamentals of Gesell's work, and Gesell in turn avows himself a disciple of Proudhon. Keynes's agreement with Gesell is not confined to matters of technical theory, but extends also to the social premises of the work of that “strange, unduly neglected prophet…whose work contains flashes of deep insight and who only just failed to reach down to the essence of the matter.”He characterizes Gesell's work as “anti-Marxian socialism,” asserting that “the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx.” Since Marx made a bitter attack on Proudhon, and since Gesell declares himself a disciple of Proudhon, Keynes's references to the superiority of Gesell over Marx suggest important relations between Proudhon and Keynes.

The Force of Dispositifs

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (02) ◽  
pp. 291-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Dodier ◽  
Janine Barbot
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Criminal Trial ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way ◽  
Processual Approach

The social sciences have much to gain by paying particular attention to the place that dispositifs occupy in social life. The utility of such a perspective is clear from an examination of the research that has made use of this notion since the end of the 1970s. Yet in addition to the wide variety of definitions and objectives relating to the concept of dispositif, a reading of these works also reveals some of the difficulties that have been encountered along the way. An effort to clarify and renew the discussion on both the conceptual and methodological levels is thus worthwhile, and this article is a contribution to that end. The first section sets out the results of our conceptual inquiry into the notion of dispositif. The second puts forward a series of propositions designed to develop a “processual” approach to dispositifs. Finally, we return to several studies that we have conducted from this perspective relating to the dispositifs of redress, looking at the doctrinal work of jurists around a criminal trial, the practices of lawyers in the courtroom, the reactions of victims of a medical scandal to a compensation fund, and the historical transformation of dispositifs of redress for medical accidents since the beginning of the nineteenth century. This enables us to clarify the approach we propose and to suggest new avenues for the future.

scholarly journals An Institutional Framework for Creating Authentic Digital Objects

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Ronald Jantz
Keyword(s):  
Public Key Cryptography ◽  
Digital Object ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Archival Institution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Audit Trails ◽  
Traditional Roles

In the future, a scholar or researcher will want to know that a digital object is trusted - that it is authentic and reliable.  Digital objects can be surrogates, resulting from a digitization process, or they can be objects whose only form is digital.  Much has been accomplished in existing open source digital library platforms to provide capabilities for preserving digital objects including now ubiquitous features such as persistent identifiers, integrity checks, audit trails, and versioning.  However, achieving a level of digital object authenticity will require a multi-dimensional approach involving policies, processes, and continued technological innovation.  This paper proposes steps that the institution can take to insure the availability of authentic digital objects in the future.  In this proposal, authenticity is based on definitions from archival diplomatics and relies on methods from public key cryptography for digitally signing an object with a secure time stamp. Trustworthy processes, re-definition of traditional roles, and the implementation of technologies to support authenticity are all required to meet the needs of digital scholarship.  Implementation and policy issues are discussed with specific attention to transformations required of the archival institution and the professional archivist.

The Current Relevance of Democracy in America

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-147
Author(s):  
Theodore Caplow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Democracy In America

Of the great nineteenth-century scholars who founded what we now call the social sciences, Alexis de Tocqueville was by far the most accurate prophet of coming events and conditions. This evening I shall try to analyze the intellectual method that enabled him to foresee the future more clearly than any of his contemporaries. That method seems to me to be as useful today as in 1835.

Current Postvention Research and Priorities for the Future

Crisis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Andriessen ◽  
Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart ◽  
Julie Cerel ◽  
Myfanwy Maple
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Intercultural Collaboration ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Suicide Bereavement ◽  
Ethical Approval

Abstract. Background: Suicide can have a lasting impact on the social life as well as the physical and mental health of the bereaved. Targeted research is needed to better understand the nature of suicide bereavement and the effectiveness of support. Aims: To take stock of ongoing studies, and to inquire about future research priorities regarding suicide bereavement and postvention. Method: In March 2015, an online survey was widely disseminated in the suicidology community. Results: The questionnaire was accessed 77 times, and 22 records were included in the analysis. The respondents provided valuable information regarding current research projects and recommendations for the future. Limitations: Bearing in mind the modest number of replies, all from respondents in Westernized countries, it is not known how representative the findings are. Conclusion: The survey generated three strategies for future postvention research: increase intercultural collaboration, increase theory-driven research, and build bonds between research and practice. Future surveys should include experiences with obtaining research grants and ethical approval for postvention studies.

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