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Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the modern economy that goes beyond disciplinary economic history. This book contributes to the cultural history of capitalism and its different regimes of productivity by pursuing the perspective of body history and by providing a global scope. Throughout...
Routledge
Departement Geschichte / Bereich Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
Die Historiographie hat „Konflikt“ unterschiedlich gefasst. Trat er in der marxistischen Geschichtsschreibung als Antagonismus auf, so gerann er in modernisierungstheoretischen Analysen zu einer Herrschaftsstruktur. Poststrukturalistische Geschichte ließ ihn in Machtrelation aufgehen, während er in der kulturgeschichtlichen zur ergebnisoffenen Aushandlung wurde oder im...
Böhlau
Departement Geschichte / Allgemeine Geschichte des 19./20. Jhds (Arni)
Publication: Book Item (Buchkap., Lexikonartikel, jur. Kommentierung, Beiträge in Sammelbänden etc.)
Examining the ambiguous concept of usury, this article retraces political battles over the epistemic framings of the everyday economy in the nineteenth century. It takes a comparative approach to the legal and economic debates on usury in the Habsburg and the German empires in the wake of the economic crisis of the late 1870s, when new laws against usury were introduced. In the respective debates,...
Social history
Departement Geschichte / Allgemeine Geschichte des 19./20. Jhds (Arni)
This essay partakes in the dialogue between history, anthropology, and social theory on the topic of debt as a social relation. Drawing on sources from nineteenth-century Switzerland, it examines everyday routines of debt collection in liberalism by taking the seized collateral object to the center of historical anal- ysis. It is shown how the attached goods in a debtor ’ s household became...
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Departement Geschichte / Allgemeine Geschichte des 19./20. Jhds (Arni)
Suter, Mischa; Domman, Monika; Speich Chassé, Daniel
Performing an object such as ‘the economy’ hinges on practices of formatting knowledge. The article proposes to look at such instituting moments in connection with social conflicts over the legitimate rules of exchange. This is exemplified by way of recounting the story of the codification of Swiss bankruptcy law in 1889. In order to homogenize the legal procedures of debt collection...
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Departement Geschichte / Allgemeine Geschichte des 19./20. Jhds (Arni)
The article explores the intersection of history and politics in the works of French philosopher Jacques Rancie`re, by focusing on the collectively edited journal Les Re ́voltes logiques (1975–1985). It argues that the historiographic project of Les Re ́voltes logiques took up specific forms of counter-knowledge that were embedded in radical left-wing politics of their day. It...
International Review of Social History
Departement Geschichte / Allgemeine Geschichte des 19./20. Jhds (Arni)
