Karen Vallgårda
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 222867 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karen Vallgårda |
| NOMBRES | Karen |
| APELLIDO | Vallgårda |
| FIRMA | VALLGÅRDA K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2362-6754 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Ethics in history
The article argues that historical research is an inherently ethical endeavor: It intervenes in contemporary society by engendering new understandings of its past, thus affecting individual and collective imaginaries of society’s current situation and possible futures. This calls for ethical considerations at every step in the research process, from the identification of a topic to the production and dissemination of a historical narrative. While…
Emotional Frontiers
This chapter focuses on the historical contingency and cross-cultural plurality in codes of “emotional development,” a value-laden and culturally embedded concept. What counts as healthy or virtuous emotional experience, comportment, or growth among children and youth (and in other stages in the life cycle) varies significantly over time and place. The plurality of emotional codes also means that an individual might experience either unfamiliarit…
Historicizing Emotional Development
This chapter argues that emotions are biocultural and historically contingent phenomena. Our emotional experience is inextricably linked to the words we use to describe our emotions, to the values we attach to them, and to the embodied cultural codes of comportment and expression. The chapter challenges the idea that we can meaningfully speak of “emotional development” in historical contexts in which “emotions” were not yet invented, and introduc…
The Family as a Locus of Illness
The family has long played a key role in the perception, interpretation, and treatment of mental illness across Europe and North America. Yet, historical studies of psychiatry tend to neglect the complex relationship between psychiatric institutions, patients, and their families. Using a Danish nerve sanatorium as a case, this article traces the shifting meanings attached to the family and the home as a potential cause and cure of mental illnesse…
Introduction
Histories of family secrecy are often emotionally, morally, and politically ambivalent. They entail fear, shame, pain, and repression, but they also often involve solicitude, tenderness, and degrees of tolerance. This special issue takes secrecy practices as a lens through which to examine the emotionally charged micropolitics of the family and its intertwinements with macropolitical currents, institutional practices, economic patterns, and wider…
Ugly Intimacies and State Power
This article is about the complicated intertwinements of state power, bureaucratic practices and the gendered formation of emotions in separation processes. Historians have long argued that ‘emotional regimes’ aim at regulating the emotional behaviour of different groups of people, and gender historians have demonstrated that marriage is crucial in shaping people's cognitive, social, sexual and economic possibilities in fundamentally gendered way…
Nordic childhoods 1700–1960. From folk beliefs to Pippi Longstocking
Nordic childhoods 1700–1960. From folk beliefs to Pippi Longstocking." Childhood in the Past, 12(1), pp. 53–54
Divorce, Bureaucracy, and Emotional Frontiers
Through a reading of administrative separation and divorce cases from late nineteenth-century Denmark, this article examines the emotional practices of separating couples interacting with the state bureaucracy. The argument is that, unlike in other European countries where achieving divorce depended on faultfinding, the Danish law, the bureaucratic procedures, and the state officials, who administered them, promoted polite emotional practices of …
Were Christian Missionaries Colonizers
For decades, scholars have debated whether Protestant Christian missionaries who travelled from Europe and North America to the colonized world were essentially ‘evangelists of empire’ or whether they rather served to undermine the logic and operations of colonial rule. In this essay I examine some of the major positions within the debate in the Indian context and argue that these are sometimes fraught by superficial representations of colonial p…
Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission
Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Da
Children and the Discordance of Colonial Conversions
Late at night on Saturday, March 12, 1865, an Indian boy, who had been named Adam, sneaked out of the dorm where he was supposed to be sleeping at the boarding school run by the Danish Missionary Society (DMS). If any of the other boys noticed his whereabouts, they did not stop him from going, but neither did they follow him. Adam found his way out of the compound and into the adjacent village of Pattambakkam. A loud rhythmic drumbeat mixed with …
Tying Children to God With Love
The article examines the politics of emotions, conversion, and childhood in the D anish P rotestant C hristian mission around the turn of the twentieth century in colonial S outh I ndia. The emotional configuration of childhood that came to prevail in the D anish missionary community at this time was informed by a particular notion of the importance of intimate and tender feelings to the constitution of a rich C hristian life. In order to win the…
The Intricate Politics of Intimacy
Examining a range of practices and types of representations, this well-edited interdisciplinary volume scrutinizes the contemporary politics of intimacy. The basic premise of the book is that intim
Can the Subaltern Woman Run? Gender, race and agency in colonial missionary texts
This article challenges the contention that it is not feasible to trace the agency of subaltern female subjects in colonial documents without at the same time distorting and even violating that very agency. Taking as its prism a letter written by a male Danish missionary chronicling a young Pariah woman’s escape from missionary control in early 20th-century South India, it argues that while a search for authentic, autonomous agency is a highly du…
Adam's escape
The article traces the fundamental incoherency that structured the Danish Missionary Society's work at a boarding school for low-caste 'heathen' children in South India in the 1860s and 1870s. Through elaborate disciplinary methods, the missionaries set out to Christianize and civilize the Indian children's morality, social behaviour and bodily comportment. Yet, the missionaries' perceptions of 'the Indian child' also reflected the contemporary b…
Adam's escape
The article traces the fundamental incoherency that structured the Danish Missionary Society's work at a boarding school for low-caste 'heathen' children in South India in the 1860s and 1870s. Through elaborate disciplinary methods, the missionaries set out to Christianize and civilize the Indian children's morality, social behaviour and bodily comportment. Yet, the missionaries' perceptions of 'the Indian child' also reflected the contemporary b…
Tying Children to God With Love
The article examines the politics of emotions, conversion, and childhood in the D anish P rotestant C hristian mission around the turn of the twentieth century in colonial S outh I ndia. The emotional configuration of childhood that came to prevail in the D anish missionary community at this time was informed by a particular notion of the importance of intimate and tender feelings to the constitution of a rich C hristian life. In order to win the…
Nordic childhoods 1700–1960. From folk beliefs to Pippi Longstocking
Nordic childhoods 1700–1960. From folk beliefs to Pippi Longstocking." Childhood in the Past, 12(1), pp. 53–54
Divorce, Bureaucracy, and Emotional Frontiers
Through a reading of administrative separation and divorce cases from late nineteenth-century Denmark, this article examines the emotional practices of separating couples interacting with the state bureaucracy. The argument is that, unlike in other European countries where achieving divorce depended on faultfinding, the Danish law, the bureaucratic procedures, and the state officials, who administered them, promoted polite emotional practices of …
Can the Subaltern Woman Run? Gender, race and agency in colonial missionary texts
This article challenges the contention that it is not feasible to trace the agency of subaltern female subjects in colonial documents without at the same time distorting and even violating that very agency. Taking as its prism a letter written by a male Danish missionary chronicling a young Pariah woman’s escape from missionary control in early 20th-century South India, it argues that while a search for authentic, autonomous agency is a highly du…
Adam's escape
The article traces the fundamental incoherency that structured the Danish Missionary Society's work at a boarding school for low-caste 'heathen' children in South India in the 1860s and 1870s. Through elaborate disciplinary methods, the missionaries set out to Christianize and civilize the Indian children's morality, social behaviour and bodily comportment. Yet, the missionaries' perceptions of 'the Indian child' also reflected the contemporary b…
The Intricate Politics of Intimacy
Examining a range of practices and types of representations, this well-edited interdisciplinary volume scrutinizes the contemporary politics of intimacy. The basic premise of the book is that intim
Can the Subaltern Woman Run? Gender, race and agency in colonial missionary texts
This article challenges the contention that it is not feasible to trace the agency of subaltern female subjects in colonial documents without at the same time distorting and even violating that very agency. Taking as its prism a letter written by a male Danish missionary chronicling a young Pariah woman’s escape from missionary control in early 20th-century South India, it argues that while a search for authentic, autonomous agency is a highly du…
Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission
Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Da
Children and the Discordance of Colonial Conversions
Late at night on Saturday, March 12, 1865, an Indian boy, who had been named Adam, sneaked out of the dorm where he was supposed to be sleeping at the boarding school run by the Danish Missionary Society (DMS). If any of the other boys noticed his whereabouts, they did not stop him from going, but neither did they follow him. Adam found his way out of the compound and into the adjacent village of Pattambakkam. A loud rhythmic drumbeat mixed with …
Tying Children to God With Love
The article examines the politics of emotions, conversion, and childhood in the D anish P rotestant C hristian mission around the turn of the twentieth century in colonial S outh I ndia. The emotional configuration of childhood that came to prevail in the D anish missionary community at this time was informed by a particular notion of the importance of intimate and tender feelings to the constitution of a rich C hristian life. In order to win the…
Were Christian Missionaries Colonizers
For decades, scholars have debated whether Protestant Christian missionaries who travelled from Europe and North America to the colonized world were essentially ‘evangelists of empire’ or whether they rather served to undermine the logic and operations of colonial rule. In this essay I examine some of the major positions within the debate in the Indian context and argue that these are sometimes fraught by superficial representations of colonial p…
Divorce, Bureaucracy, and Emotional Frontiers
Through a reading of administrative separation and divorce cases from late nineteenth-century Denmark, this article examines the emotional practices of separating couples interacting with the state bureaucracy. The argument is that, unlike in other European countries where achieving divorce depended on faultfinding, the Danish law, the bureaucratic procedures, and the state officials, who administered them, promoted polite emotional practices of …
Ugly Intimacies and State Power
This article is about the complicated intertwinements of state power, bureaucratic practices and the gendered formation of emotions in separation processes. Historians have long argued that ‘emotional regimes’ aim at regulating the emotional behaviour of different groups of people, and gender historians have demonstrated that marriage is crucial in shaping people's cognitive, social, sexual and economic possibilities in fundamentally gendered way…
Nordic childhoods 1700–1960. From folk beliefs to Pippi Longstocking
Nordic childhoods 1700–1960. From folk beliefs to Pippi Longstocking." Childhood in the Past, 12(1), pp. 53–54
Emotional Frontiers
This chapter focuses on the historical contingency and cross-cultural plurality in codes of “emotional development,” a value-laden and culturally embedded concept. What counts as healthy or virtuous emotional experience, comportment, or growth among children and youth (and in other stages in the life cycle) varies significantly over time and place. The plurality of emotional codes also means that an individual might experience either unfamiliarit…
Historicizing Emotional Development
This chapter argues that emotions are biocultural and historically contingent phenomena. Our emotional experience is inextricably linked to the words we use to describe our emotions, to the values we attach to them, and to the embodied cultural codes of comportment and expression. The chapter challenges the idea that we can meaningfully speak of “emotional development” in historical contexts in which “emotions” were not yet invented, and introduc…
The Family as a Locus of Illness
The family has long played a key role in the perception, interpretation, and treatment of mental illness across Europe and North America. Yet, historical studies of psychiatry tend to neglect the complex relationship between psychiatric institutions, patients, and their families. Using a Danish nerve sanatorium as a case, this article traces the shifting meanings attached to the family and the home as a potential cause and cure of mental illnesse…
Introduction
Histories of family secrecy are often emotionally, morally, and politically ambivalent. They entail fear, shame, pain, and repression, but they also often involve solicitude, tenderness, and degrees of tolerance. This special issue takes secrecy practices as a lens through which to examine the emotionally charged micropolitics of the family and its intertwinements with macropolitical currents, institutional practices, economic patterns, and wider…
Ethics in history
The article argues that historical research is an inherently ethical endeavor: It intervenes in contemporary society by engendering new understandings of its past, thus affecting individual and collective imaginaries of society’s current situation and possible futures. This calls for ethical considerations at every step in the research process, from the identification of a topic to the production and dissemination of a historical narrative. While…
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