Joan W Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 88780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan W Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan W |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6092-9784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 139 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1494 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 138 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Landscape imaginaries as sources of resilience
This paper focuses on appropriations of Oder River landscapes as resources in promoting notions of a shared regional space along the German-Polish border. Riverine landscapes, wetlands and other natural areas are elements of border-spanning geographical imaginaries that have connected different actor groups across the border. At the same time, the political nature of cross-border landscapes has revealed itself in conflicted understandings, compet…
Borderlands as a Multiverse
A considerable body of research on the German-Polish borderland has focused on different forms of cooperation and bilateral interaction that have developed since 1990. In this sense the borderland has indeed functioned as a “laboratory” of European integration, contributing to a sense of good neighbourliness and interconnectedness that has prevailed despite numerous political and social challenges. However, the significance of the German-Polish b…
A Guesser in This Vale of Tears
The essay makes three points about historians' responsibilities in the current moment. The first has to do with making sense of the present by bringing the past to bear on it-that is, offering to the current eruptions of politics a history that can help explain what has brought them to this point in the form of narratives that counter the dominant ones. The second is what Foucault called a "history of the present." That is a critical interrogatio…
Respuesta a “Tres comentarios sobre La fantasía de la historia feminista de Joan W. Scott”
Esta comunicación contiene la lectura que Joan W. Scott elaboró como respuesta a los tres comentarios que Juan Ignacio Veleda, Rosa Belvedresi y Adriana Valobra realizaron sobre su libro La fantasía de la historia feminista, traducido por primera vez al español y publicado en marzo de 2023 por Editorial Omnívora. Se presenta el texto en inglés y luego su traducción al español
Conceptualizing Place Borders as Narrative
Place is of central significance to urban planning processes that specifically target community involvement and co-ownership of development decisions. Consequently, the intriguing but often daunting task of understanding how a sense of place emerges, develops, and evolves has been a subject of interdisciplinary study that links the social sciences, humanities, and more recently, cognitive sciences. Since Kevin Lynch’s classic study of urban image…
Border-making as illiberal politics
Radical Right-wing populism frequently involves ‘divide and rule’ strategies as a means to attain and consolidate political power. In the cases of Viktor Orban’s political regime in Hungary and Donald Trump’s four-year presidency (and its aftermath), we find a pronounced attempt to create narrative hegemony of a sense of nation built upon Christian civilization and foundationalist understandings of national identity. Moreover, both cases reveal p…
Astonishment, Outrage, Despair
The language my friends and I are using to describe the outcome of Tuesday's elections combines astonishment, outrage, and a large dose of despair. Astonishment that a convicted felon, a twice impeached politician, a vicious misogynist, a racist, homophobe, liar, and cheat, who is a stated enemy of democracy, managed to secure the popular vote for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time since 2004 and-against so many predictions-wi…
Hungary’s illiberal border politics and the exploitation of social, spatial and temporal distinctions
Previous research on Hungarian right-wing populism has documented how the present government has identified different groups and individuals as threats to innate national interests and values, drawing distinctions between the ‘nation’, illegal migrants, non-heteronormative persons, liberal enemies in Brussels, George Soros and others. At the same time, the Orbán government has exploited the country’s internal divisions which, for example, reflect…
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion
Understood in some conceptual analysis as a pillar of territorial cohesion and due to its critical role in promoting territorial integration, territorial cooperation is often presented as one of the major positive achievements of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy. In this context, this article proposes a conceptual framework to assess the contribution of the European Territorial Cooperation process, including the beyond-funding support from the…
The Political Uses of History
The study of history enables us to explore the ways in which prevailing relations of power are asserted, imposed, challenged, and modified (if not entirely displaced). This, in turn, lets us think the relationship of past, present, and future as a problem to explore, and not as a fixed set of factual truths, moving in a singular, ever improving, continuous line of development. I want to use my definition of history – as the study of contested rel…
Hungarian Border Research as a reflection of European integration and regional transformation
This paper discusses ways in which Hungarian border studies have reflected processes of post-1989 transformation by moving towards a contextual perspective on diaerent border-making (bordering) processes. Traditionally, Hungarian border studies, and with them geographical conceptualizations of Hungarian state spaces, have reflected changing historical and political contexts as well as dominant scientific paradigms that have shifted with time. In …
On the (geo)political salience of geographical imaginations
This article introduces a Research Colloquium that investigates relationships between the production of Central European geopolitical imaginaries and processes of European integration. Specifically, we interrogate the ways in which Central European geopolitical imaginaries have involved the recasting of old and the emergence of new framings of regional identities, regional cooperation and geopolitical orientations. Our specific focus on Hungary i…
The Carpathian Basin as a ‘Hungarian Neighbourhood’
This paper explores how the geographical idea of the Carpathian Basin has been employed in post-1989 Hungarian conceptualizations of regional development across state borders. This involves understanding the tensions that have emerged between different and partly competing notions of the Carpathian Basin as a cooperation space that reflects “Europeanization” and as a geographical context that is central to Hungary’s sense of place (neighborhood) …
What Kind of Freedom Is Academic Freedom
This essay argues for a definition of academic freedom that does not confuse it with what is considered to be a human right—the individual right to free speech. This is a freedom granted in principle by the state to scholars (usually within educational institutions: schools, colleges, and universities) because their critical activity has been considered vital to the public good and because it is a self-regulated activity committed to processes of…
Visegrád four political regionalism as a critical reflection of Europeanization
This paper discusses the significance and potential consequences of illiberal politics for the Visegrád Group’s (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) role as a regional integration platform. Moreover, links between Europeanization and V4 geopolitical identity will be explored as part of investigating discursive framings of Central Europe’s “illiberalism.” I suggest that illiberal regionalism is a useful concept in that it problematizes politic…
Smart City strategies and new urban development policies in the Polish context
In their bid to combine economic growth with efficiency gains, environmental improvements, and more positive images, Polish cities have embraced Smart City (SC) strategies. Normative visions of the Smart City couple advances in ICT with the promise of more inclusive, effective and democratic local governance, but critics of SC urge caution. This study identifies the priority areas of large Polish cities with regard to SC and the extent to which s…
Bordering, Ordering and Everyday Cognitive Geographies
With the publication of Henk van Houtum’s and Ton van Naerssen’s (2002) essay on Bordering, Othering and Ordering, border studies received innovative and liberating inspiration. Partly as a result of the essay contemporary border studies recognise the fluid and changing nature of borders, their increasing sophistication, and the complexity of border‐making processes by different agents. In this brief intervention I suggest that perspectives on bo…
Cognitive geographies of bordering
Linking borders to cognition can widen our understandings of space–society relations. In this contribution, border-making will be related to the creation of urban place distinctions and place narratives that create a sense of specific “thereness.” The focus is not on cognitive mappings of urban borders as such. Rather, border-making will be revealed as an intersubjective creation of meaning in the guise of socially communicated narratives of plac…
Hungarian Border Politics as an Anti-Politics of the European Union
This essay contextualises Hungarian antipolitics of Europe as an element of radical conservative nation-building and as a reflection of the strategic use of borders. Two concrete examples of border politics will be elaborated that document shifts from EU-conformity to EU-contestation and the increasing political significance of culturalist arguments. These cases, moreover, are exemplary of the dual nature of then nationalist-conservative agenda w…
How Families Reproduce the Inequalities of Capitalism - Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, Le Genre du capital
How Families Reproduce the Inequalities of Capitalism - Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, Le Genre du capital: Comment la famille reproduit les inégalités (Paris, La Découverte, 2020, 326 p.) - Volume 61 Issue 3
Border Regions
Border regions reflect the impacts of state borders on political spaces, economic relationships, and social life. As their constitution and function are very much context‐dependent, conceptualizations of border regions reveal a great deal of fluidity and ambiguity. Furthermore, the way in which border regions are comprehended, studied, and interpreted reflects the increasing complexity and scope of social geography. There is a clear difference be…
Mobility, Border Ethics, and the Challenge of Revanchist Identity Politics
The main objective of the essay is to argue that a powerful revanchist and self-referential narrative of authenticity and autonomy is influencing the securitization of mobility. Cultural nationalism, coupled with elements of a new sovereigntism that reifies national interests and unilateralism, is a direct challenge to globalist assumptions that privilege mobility and cosmopolitanism. Discussion begins with a consideration of securitization and t…
Ghost in the Genevan borderscape! On the symbolic significance of an “invisible” border
This paper explores the symbolic significance of national borders in a cross‐border regional context. The main argument is that the transformation of borders is actually part of a complex and contested process of symbolisation, predicated on articulations between political projects, everyday experience, and collective memories. The Greater Geneva borderscape provides an emblematic case of cross‐border cooperation that is marked by the physical er…
Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference
Deconstruction involves analyzing the operations of difference in texts, the ways in which meanings are made to work. The method consists of two related steps: the reversal and displacement of binary oppositions. This double process reveals the interdependence of seemingly dichotomous terms and their meaning relative to a particular history. It shows them to be not natural but constructed oppositions, constructed for particular purposes in partic…
European territorial cooperation
European territorial cooperation: Theoretical and empirical approaches to the process and impacts of cross-border and transnational cooperation in Europe." Regional Studies, 54(1), pp. 140–141
The Evidence of Experience
Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference
European and North American Contexts for Cross-border Regionalism
SCOTT J. W. (1999) European and North American contexts for cross-border regionalism, Reg. Studies 33 , 605‐617. This paper discusses cross-border regionalism within the supranational contexts of the European Union and the developing North American Free Trade Area. Focusing on planning and regional development issues, cross-border regionalism as a new form of governance is investigated, based on a comparison of supranational integration logics, c…
Fantasy Echo
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity
Those who deny the existence of these problems and who would suppress discussion of them are not without their politics; they simply promote their orthodoxy in the name of an unquestioned and unquestionable tradition, universality, or history. They attack challenges to their ideas as dangerous and subversive, antithetical to the academic enterprise. They offer themselves as apostles of timeless truths, when in fact they are enemies of change. The…
O enigma da igualdade
Scott estabelece, através deste artigo, uma discussão sobre os conceitos de igualdade e diferença, do gênero, das identidades individuais e de grupo, enfatizando a necessidade de historicidade do tema dentro da sociedade contemporânea. O artigo trata também de questões que envolvem as políticas de ação afirmativa, diferenças de gênero e raça no mundo do trabalho ou acesso de minorias a universidades. Scott argumenta que a questão da igualdade pre…
Women's Work and European Fertility Patterns
During the nineteenth century most commentators on the "condition of the working classes" attributed large families and frequent illegitimacy among the poor to social, economic or moral pathology.For Engels overpopulated working class families were the offspring of industrial capitalism.For Malthus, they were evidence of imprudence, of an inability to make rational calculations.For both, as for many government investigators and social reformers, …
Women's Work and the Family in Nineteenth-Century Europe
There is a great deal of confusion about the history of women's work outside the home and about the origin and meaning of women's traditional place within the home. Most interpretations of either of these questions depend on assumptions about the other. Usually, women at home in any time period are assumed to be non-productive, the antithesis of women at work. In addition, most general works on women and the family assume that the history of wome…
Schools of Thought
Society and Culture in Early Modern France
Introduction. 1. Strikes and Salvation at Lyon. 2. Poor Relief, Humanism, and Heresy. 3. City Women and Religious Change. 4. The Reasons of Misrule. 5. Women on Top. 6. The Rites of Violence. 7. Printing and the People. 8. Proverbial Wisdom and Popular Errors. Notes. Index
Developing ‘process pragmatism’ to underpin engaged research in human geography
This paper explores the contribution that pragmatist philosophy can make to the way that we do research and teaching in human geography. It provides a historical overview of the key ideas in the tradition, their influence on the Chicago School of Sociology and community organizing, and the implications of this work for epistemological practice. The paper then looks at the variety of ways in which human geographers are using research as a means to…
Reflections on EU territoriality and the ‘bordering’ of Europe
Symptomatic Politics
The events that became known as the affaires de foulard began on 3 October 1989, when three Muslim girls who refused to remove their head scarves were expelled from their middle school in the town of Creil, about thirty miles outside of Paris. The headmaster, Eugène Chenière, claimed he was acting to enforce laïcité––the French version of secularism. According to Chenière, laïcité–– a concept whose meaning would be furiously debated in the months…
On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History
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Black in Blue
Género
Este artículo traza la historia de los usos dela palabra "género". Sugiere que aunque "género" se haconvertido en un lugar común, muchos cuestionamientospersisten en cuanto al modo como se definen y evolucionanlos términos "mujeres", "hombres" y las relaciones depoder entre ellos. Siempre que continúe permitiéndonoscuestionar los significados que se ligan a los sexos, cómose establecen y en qué contestos, género sigue siendo unacategoría analític…
The EU and ‘Wider Europe
In response to enlargement, the EU’s ‘Wider Europe’ initiative and emerging European Neighbourhood Policy envisage ‘positive interdependence’ with neighbouring countries of the ‘East’ and ‘South’. ‘Partnerships’ are seen as an alternative to direct EU membership and thus as a sustainable incentive for regional cooperation. In order to be effective, such regional partnerships must transcend market logics and accommodate heterogeneous economic and …
A Networked Space of Meaning? Spatial Politics as Geostrategies of European Integration
The European Union is an example of regionalisation characterised not only by economic integration, but also by a 'spatial politics' aimed at instilling a sense of European identity and citizenship. Spatial politics are discussed here in terms of governance, regional policies and the production of geographical knowledge that reinforce the notion of a diverse but interdependent European space and, hence, political community. The paper examines rec…
Storytelling
Natalie Davis is a quintessential storyteller in the way theorized by Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Michel de Certeau. Her work decenters history not simply because it grants agency and so historical visibility to those who have been hidden from history or left on its margins, but also because her stories reveal the complexities of human experience and so challenge the received categories with which we are accustomed to thinking about the w…
Civil Society and the ‘Neighbourhood’ — Europeanization through Cross‐Border Cooperation
This collaborative study pursues a dual objective. On the one hand, it focuses on the actual and potential roles of civil society in developing new forms of political, economic and socio‐cultural cooperation within the emerging ‘European Neighbourhood’. On the other hand, through this investigation of civil society networks it contributes to the ‘Europeanization’ debate with regard to the influence of the EU in civil society development in neighb…
"La querelle des femmes" no final do século XX
O texto analisa o debate feminista sobre a representação política das mulheres a partir das lutas feministas pela paridade na década de 90 na França. Mostra como francesas/es e norte-americanas/os percebem de forma estereotipada posições teóricas e práticas feministas de ambos os países, e usam estes estereótipos como argumentos pró ou contra a luta pela paridade. Comparando o debate contemporâneo com debates históricos que remontam ao início da …
Transborder Cooperation, Regional Initiatives, and Sovereignty Conflicts in Western Europe
Transborder cooperation in Western Europe has made considerable progress. Primarily because of the activities of local groups, such as the Regio Basiliensis, and the support of international organizations, such as the Council of Europe, the Upper Rhine Valley and other European border regions have succeeded in voicing their interests in a fairly cohesive manner. However, the continued emphasis of national governments on sovereignty and national i…
Hungarian Border Politics as an Anti-Politics of the European Union
This essay contextualises Hungarian antipolitics of Europe as an element of radical conservative nation-building and as a reflection of the strategic use of borders. Two concrete examples of border politics will be elaborated that document shifts from EU-conformity to EU-contestation and the increasing political significance of culturalist arguments. These cases, moreover, are exemplary of the dual nature of then nationalist-conservative agenda w…
Smart Growth as Urban Reform
New' regionalism privileges social communication over political 'coercion' as a means to motivate intermunicipal, interagency and multiactor co-operation in metropolitan regions. Critics claim, however, that the NR is little more than urban crisis management within increasingly unstable post-Fordist and neo-liberal environments. This analysis of emerging 'smart growth' strategies in North America offers a 'pragmatic', context-sensitive and critic…
Spatial imaginaries and selective in/visibility
As part of a repertoire of the European Union’s (EU’s) geopolitical practices, the imaginary of Mediterranean Neighbourhood is a means with which to manage dissonance between the EU’s self-image as a normative power, changing political situations in the region and the Realpolitik of security. We argue that this also involved a ‘politics of in/visibility’ that promotes democratization and social modernization through structured cooperation while e…
Black in Blue
Les verriers de Carmaux, 1856-1895
The French Revolution of 1830 . David H. Pinkney
Workers and Protest
Socialization in Two French Villages
The French Second Republic
France, 1848-1945 . Theodore Zeldin
Victorian Ladies at Work
Women's Work and the Family in Nineteenth-Century Europe
There is a great deal of confusion about the history of women's work outside the home and about the origin and meaning of women's traditional place within the home. Most interpretations of either of these questions depend on assumptions about the other. Usually, women at home in any time period are assumed to be non-productive, the antithesis of women at work. In addition, most general works on women and the family assume that the history of wome…
Radicalism in Mediterranean France
The North Atlantic World in the seventeenth century
Women's Work and European Fertility Patterns
During the nineteenth century most commentators on the "condition of the working classes" attributed large families and frequent illegitimacy among the poor to social, economic or moral pathology.For Engels overpopulated working class families were the offspring of industrial capitalism.For Malthus, they were evidence of imprudence, of an inability to make rational calculations.For both, as for many government investigators and social reformers, …
The Female Population of France in the Nineteenth Century
The Making of the Modern Family. Edward Shorter
L'histoire du monde ouvrier aux Etats-Unis depuis 1960
Dans les annees 1950 et encore au debut des annees 1960, etre historien du mouvement ouvrier, c'etait principalement faire de lthistoire economique. L'histoire du monde ouvrier etait etroitement liee a l'histoire economique et se centrait avant tout sur l'etude politique du mouvement ouvrier organise. Les historiens du monde ouvrier, dont un bon nombre etaient eux-memes marxistes) visaient a etablir par leurs travaux l'influence politique croissa…
Society and Culture in Early Modern France
Introduction. 1. Strikes and Salvation at Lyon. 2. Poor Relief, Humanism, and Heresy. 3. City Women and Religious Change. 4. The Reasons of Misrule. 5. Women on Top. 6. The Rites of Violence. 7. Printing and the People. 8. Proverbial Wisdom and Popular Errors. Notes. Index
Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860
Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England . Trygve Tholfsen Women in Trade Unions
Women, Work, and Family
Women, Work and Family
Women, Work, and Family
Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia
in 1980, we now have a quite remarkable collection of evidence and argument on the history of slavery and other forms of bondage in Southeast Asia.The collection is ambitious in its scope, moving as it does from Burma to Batavia, from Malaya to Luzon, from thirteenth century Angkor to nineteenth century Sulawesi, from straightforward chattel slavery to clientelism, and from legal texts to the analysis of trade routes and social organization.The p…
Gender
Gender
Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis Get access Joan W. Scott Joan W. Scott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 91, Issue 5, December 1986, Pages 1053–1075, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/91.5.1053 Published: 01 December 1986
A Reply to Criticism
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