Mischa Suter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mischa Suter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mischa |
| FAMILY NAME | Suter |
| SIGNATURE | SUTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism: Switzerland, 1800–1900
Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. It focuses on Switzerland, an exemplary case of liberal rule. Debt collection and bankruptcy relied on received practices until they were standardized in a Swiss federal law in 1889. The vast array of these practices was summarized by the idiomatic Swiss legal term "Rechtstrieb" (literally, "l…
Uffa Jensen, Wie die Couch nach Kalkutta kam. Eine Globalgeschichte der frühen Psychoanalyse
Koloniale Arbeit: Rassismus, Migration und Herrschaft in Tansania (1885–1914)
This book offers a fresh perspective on labour in German East Africa by taking up the vantage point of postcolonial studies. Perhaps, it is fair to say that while ‘inequality’ is one of the core categories of social history, ‘difference’ holds a parallel place in post-colonialism’s toolkit. In her dissertation, Minu Haschemi Yekani engages with a productive tension between these concepts. As labour is, of course, the research topic of social hist…
Usury and the problem of exchange under capitalism: A late-nineteenth-century debate on economic rationality
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, diverging political interests and class attitudes…
Debt and Its Attachments: Collateral as an Object of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Liberalism
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 analysis. It is shown how the attached goods in a debtor's household became an object of knowledge for nineteenth-century framers of law…
Histories of Productivity: Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy
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 modernity, the body served as a fundamental, albeit es…
A Science of the Specific: An Interview with Mary Poovey
You research finance with the tools of historical epistemology, a field that has received much attention since the "great recession" after the crash of 2008.However, already several years before the latest crisis you were interested in the epistemology of economics and in finance's characteristic ways of abstraction.As the biography of a scholar is often made of a succession of research problems, can we start biographically?Mary poovey: All my de…
Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht, Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus
The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. 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 p…
Einleitung: Wissensgeschichte ökonomischer Praktiken
Wie in der Medizin und der Rechtswissenschaft bis heute üblich, mussten künftige Ökonomen und Ökonominnen bis vor kurzem im Rahmen ihres Studiums auch Geschichtsvorlesungen besuchen. Im deutschen Sprachraum hieß dieses Pflichtfach abschreckend „Dogmengeschichte“, in der angelsächsischen Tradition war eleganter von „History of Economic Thought“ die Rede. Die Dogmengeschichte fokussiert die Evolution von Ideen im Dienste ökonomischer Theoriebildung…
A Thorn in the Side of Social History: Jacques Rancière andLes Révoltes logiques
The article explores the intersection of history and politics in the works of French philosopher Jacques Rancière, by focusing on the collectively edited journal Les Révoltes logiques (1975-1985). It argues that the historiographic project of Les Révoltes logiques took up specific forms of counter-knowledge that were embedded in radical left-wing politics of their day. It further traces both the engagement with historiography and the role of hist…
Laurence Fontaine, L’Economie morale. Pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle
Koloniale Arbeit: Rassismus, Migration und Herrschaft in Tansania (1885–1914)
This book offers a fresh perspective on labour in German East Africa by taking up the vantage point of postcolonial studies. Perhaps, it is fair to say that while ‘inequality’ is one of the core categories of social history, ‘difference’ holds a parallel place in post-colonialism’s toolkit. In her dissertation, Minu Haschemi Yekani engages with a productive tension between these concepts. As labour is, of course, the research topic of social hist…
Usury and the problem of exchange under capitalism: A late-nineteenth-century debate on economic rationality
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, diverging political interests and class attitudes…
Einleitung: Wissensgeschichte ökonomischer Praktiken
Wie in der Medizin und der Rechtswissenschaft bis heute üblich, mussten künftige Ökonomen und Ökonominnen bis vor kurzem im Rahmen ihres Studiums auch Geschichtsvorlesungen besuchen. Im deutschen Sprachraum hieß dieses Pflichtfach abschreckend „Dogmengeschichte“, in der angelsächsischen Tradition war eleganter von „History of Economic Thought“ die Rede. Die Dogmengeschichte fokussiert die Evolution von Ideen im Dienste ökonomischer Theoriebildung…
Laurence Fontaine, L’Economie morale. Pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle
A Thorn in the Side of Social History: Jacques Rancière andLes Révoltes logiques
The article explores the intersection of history and politics in the works of French philosopher Jacques Rancière, by focusing on the collectively edited journal Les Révoltes logiques (1975-1985). It argues that the historiographic project of Les Révoltes logiques took up specific forms of counter-knowledge that were embedded in radical left-wing politics of their day. It further traces both the engagement with historiography and the role of hist…
Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht, Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus
The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. 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 p…
Einleitung: Wissensgeschichte ökonomischer Praktiken
Wie in der Medizin und der Rechtswissenschaft bis heute üblich, mussten künftige Ökonomen und Ökonominnen bis vor kurzem im Rahmen ihres Studiums auch Geschichtsvorlesungen besuchen. Im deutschen Sprachraum hieß dieses Pflichtfach abschreckend „Dogmengeschichte“, in der angelsächsischen Tradition war eleganter von „History of Economic Thought“ die Rede. Die Dogmengeschichte fokussiert die Evolution von Ideen im Dienste ökonomischer Theoriebildung…
Histories of Productivity: Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy
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 modernity, the body served as a fundamental, albeit es…
A Science of the Specific: An Interview with Mary Poovey
You research finance with the tools of historical epistemology, a field that has received much attention since the "great recession" after the crash of 2008.However, already several years before the latest crisis you were interested in the epistemology of economics and in finance's characteristic ways of abstraction.As the biography of a scholar is often made of a succession of research problems, can we start biographically?Mary poovey: All my de…
Usury and the problem of exchange under capitalism: A late-nineteenth-century debate on economic rationality
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, diverging political interests and class attitudes…
Debt and Its Attachments: Collateral as an Object of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Liberalism
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 analysis. It is shown how the attached goods in a debtor's household became an object of knowledge for nineteenth-century framers of law…
Uffa Jensen, Wie die Couch nach Kalkutta kam. Eine Globalgeschichte der frühen Psychoanalyse
Koloniale Arbeit: Rassismus, Migration und Herrschaft in Tansania (1885–1914)
This book offers a fresh perspective on labour in German East Africa by taking up the vantage point of postcolonial studies. Perhaps, it is fair to say that while ‘inequality’ is one of the core categories of social history, ‘difference’ holds a parallel place in post-colonialism’s toolkit. In her dissertation, Minu Haschemi Yekani engages with a productive tension between these concepts. As labour is, of course, the research topic of social hist…
Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism: Switzerland, 1800–1900
Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. It focuses on Switzerland, an exemplary case of liberal rule. Debt collection and bankruptcy relied on received practices until they were standardized in a Swiss federal law in 1889. The vast array of these practices was summarized by the idiomatic Swiss legal term "Rechtstrieb" (literally, "l…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works) · Debt (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Law (3 works)