Global history is increasingly paying attention to the local dimensions of globalisation as well as to the connections between the global and the local. In this class we will engage with theoretical, conceptual and methodological questions concerning the local dimensions of processes of globalization. In particular, we will consider the ways in which microhistorical approaches on the one hand and ethnographic studies of globalisation on the other may be used in global history and histories of globalisation. A selection of existing case studies will be considered and presented by the students. Suggestions before the beginning of the course are welcome.
Refugee guest students are welcome.
Selected literature:
Appadurai, Arjun. "The production of locality." In R. Fardon (Ed.), Counterwork. Managing the Diversity of Knowledge. London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 204–225.
Epple, Angelika. Das Unternehmen Stollwerk: Eine Mikrogeschichte der Globalisierung. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2010.
Epple, Angelika. The Global, the Transnational, and the Subaltern: The Limits of History beyond the National Paradigm, in: Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist, Devrimsel D. Nergiz (Hrsg.), Beyond Methodological Nationalism.
Research Methodologies for Transnational Studies. Routledge, London 2012, pp. 241-76.
Ginzburg, Carlo, John Tedeschi, and Anne C. Tedeschi. “Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It.” Critical Inquiry 20, no. 1 (October 1, 1993): 10–35.
Middell, Matthias, and Katja Naumann. “Global History and the Spatial
Turn: From the Impact of Area Studies to the Study of Critical Junctures of Globalization.” Journal of Global History 5, no. 01 (March 2010):
149–70.
Putnam, Lara. “To Study the Fragments/Whole: Microhistory and the Atlantic World.” Journal of Social History 39, no. 3 (2006): 615–30.
Struck, Bernhard, Kate Ferris, and Jacques Revel. “Introduction: Space and Scale in Transnational History.” The International History Review 33, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 573–84.
Zahra, Tara. “‘The Psychological Marshall Plan’: Displacement, Gender, and Human Rights after World War II.” Central European History 44, no.
01 (2011): 37–62. |
