Lasse Heerten
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lasse Heerten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lasse |
| FAMILY NAME | Heerten |
| SIGNATURE | HEERTEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruhr University Bochum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0693-108X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Imperial Adventus into a City of Warehouses
The article analyzes the contemporary material, political, and symbolic construction of Hamburg's free port, zooming in on its festive opening in 1888, when Kaiser Wilhelm II visited to perform this ceremonious act. Asking why the “Speicherstadt” (warehouse city) was right away dubbed a “city” even though this was an exclusively commercial space devoid of inhabitants, the article uses this case study to argue that process concepts like “urbanizat…
Biafras of the Mind
After a long period of neglect, historians have rediscovered the humanitarian crisis in the famine-ridden secessionist Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70). The recent historiography is spurred by the growing interest in the histories of human rights and humanitarianism. While critical of narratives about the Biafran crisis as a "myth of origins" of Doctors Without Borders, the historiography of Biafra, particularly on the F…
J ohannes M orsink . The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust
For over two decades, the philosopher and political scientist Johannes Morsink has devoted himself to studying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). His most recent of several books on the subject, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust: An Endangered Connection, aims to reestablish the connection he considers endangered. Taking issue with recent works by historians and legal scholars, Morsink posits that human ri…
Mooring Mobilities, Fixing Flows
This article critically surveys the current historiography of port cities, which have recently attracted a lot of interest, particularly from global historians of the 19th and early 20th century. The article contextualizes this body of scholarship within larger recent and older trends in the discipline. Recently, historians and other scholars have predominantly analyzed port cities as "nodal points" or "hubs" within global networks. The article a…
Biafra, Humanitarian Intervention and History
This roundtable took place on 16 January 2020, at the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Biafra. It brought together Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka and Kevin O’Sullivan. The roundtable was organised and chaired by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester
Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide
Ankerpunkte der Verflechtung
This article undertakes a critical survey of current historiography of port cities, which have recently begun to attract considerable interest from historians, and particularly from global historians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article contextualizes this body of scholarship within larger trends in the field, both new and old. In this literature, port cities have predominantly been analyzed as “nodal points” or “hubs” wit…
The Nigeria–Biafra war
The Nigeria–Biafra war that raged between 1967 and 1970 made headlines around the world, above all for the major famine in the secessionist enclave of Biafra, and prompted a major international relief. It was a genuinely global event. Yet by the late 1970s, it was seldom talked about outside Nigeria. Since then, it barely features in scholarly and popular accounts of the period. The conflict is also virtually entirely absent from the field of gen…
The Nigeria–Biafra war
The Nigeria–Biafra war that raged between 1967 and 1970 made headlines around the world, above all for the major famine in the secessionist enclave of Biafra, and prompted a major international relief. It was a genuinely global event. Yet by the late 1970s, it was seldom talked about outside Nigeria. Since then, it barely features in scholarly and popular accounts of the period. The conflict is also virtually entirely absent from the field of gen…
Mooring Mobilities, Fixing Flows
This article critically surveys the current historiography of port cities, which have recently attracted a lot of interest, particularly from global historians of the 19th and early 20th century. The article contextualizes this body of scholarship within larger recent and older trends in the discipline. Recently, historians and other scholars have predominantly analyzed port cities as "nodal points" or "hubs" within global networks. The article a…
Ankerpunkte der Verflechtung
This article undertakes a critical survey of current historiography of port cities, which have recently begun to attract considerable interest from historians, and particularly from global historians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article contextualizes this body of scholarship within larger trends in the field, both new and old. In this literature, port cities have predominantly been analyzed as “nodal points” or “hubs” wit…
The Nigeria–Biafra war
The Nigeria–Biafra war that raged between 1967 and 1970 made headlines around the world, above all for the major famine in the secessionist enclave of Biafra, and prompted a major international relief. It was a genuinely global event. Yet by the late 1970s, it was seldom talked about outside Nigeria. Since then, it barely features in scholarly and popular accounts of the period. The conflict is also virtually entirely absent from the field of gen…
Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide
Ankerpunkte der Verflechtung
This article undertakes a critical survey of current historiography of port cities, which have recently begun to attract considerable interest from historians, and particularly from global historians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article contextualizes this body of scholarship within larger trends in the field, both new and old. In this literature, port cities have predominantly been analyzed as “nodal points” or “hubs” wit…
Biafra, Humanitarian Intervention and History
This roundtable took place on 16 January 2020, at the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Biafra. It brought together Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka and Kevin O’Sullivan. The roundtable was organised and chaired by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester
J ohannes M orsink . The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust
For over two decades, the philosopher and political scientist Johannes Morsink has devoted himself to studying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). His most recent of several books on the subject, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust: An Endangered Connection, aims to reestablish the connection he considers endangered. Taking issue with recent works by historians and legal scholars, Morsink posits that human ri…
Mooring Mobilities, Fixing Flows
This article critically surveys the current historiography of port cities, which have recently attracted a lot of interest, particularly from global historians of the 19th and early 20th century. The article contextualizes this body of scholarship within larger recent and older trends in the discipline. Recently, historians and other scholars have predominantly analyzed port cities as "nodal points" or "hubs" within global networks. The article a…
Biafras of the Mind
After a long period of neglect, historians have rediscovered the humanitarian crisis in the famine-ridden secessionist Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70). The recent historiography is spurred by the growing interest in the histories of human rights and humanitarianism. While critical of narratives about the Biafran crisis as a "myth of origins" of Doctors Without Borders, the historiography of Biafra, particularly on the F…
An Imperial Adventus into a City of Warehouses
The article analyzes the contemporary material, political, and symbolic construction of Hamburg's free port, zooming in on its festive opening in 1888, when Kaiser Wilhelm II visited to perform this ceremonious act. Asking why the “Speicherstadt” (warehouse city) was right away dubbed a “city” even though this was an exclusively commercial space devoid of inhabitants, the article uses this case study to argue that process concepts like “urbanizat…
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